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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest Offloads ARKB and COIN Holdings
To balance its fund weightings, leading investment asset management firm ARK Invest has had to offload 108,751 ARKB spot Bitcoin ETF shares. The Cathie Wood-led firm made this move on Thursday and the offloaded assets from its Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) summed up to approximately $6.9 million.
ARK Invest Aims to Maintain Diversification in Its Fund
This comes only a week after Ark Invest sold 118,209 ARKB shares worth a staggering $7.76 million. Also, the spot Bitcoin ETF recorded a net outflow of $22.4 million on Thursday, August 1. Notably, the other Bitcoin ETFs ramped up $50.6 million in combined net inflows.
The investment firm also sold part of its shares in Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN). Precisely, it parted ways with 31,517 shares ($6.7 million) from ARKW and 37,552 shares ($8 million) from its Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) on Thursday. Noteworthy, this is the biggest single-day divestment since May 7. This means that the Cathie Wood-led investment firm offloaded more COIN on the first day of August than in the previous two months combined.
ARK Invest’s latest trade filing shows that the firm made an initial sale of $2.7 million worth of COIN the previous day. In total, the firm liquidated $7.93 million worth of COIN stock in July and $2.88 million of the shares in June.
This move underscores Ark’s investment strategy which involves not letting any individual holding take up more than 10% of an ETF’s portfolio. The firm came up with this strategy to enhance diversification within its funds. Therefore, it is very likely that ARK Invest will keep rebalancing its asset weightings especially if ARKB and COIN keep surpassing the value of Ark’s other holdings in the fund.
Currently, ARKB is the largest holding within the asset investment management firm’s ARKW ETF. As of August 2, its weighting stood at approximately 10.6%, representing $142.4 million. Coinbase share COIN represents only 6.7%, making it the fourth-largest holding in the fund. Its total worth is around $90.4 million.
However, COIN represents Ark’s largest holding in its ARKF fund at 9.7%, worth $77.4 million.
The other top three holdings are Ark’s own spot Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), and Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) shares having a weightage of 11%, 10%, and 8.4%, respectively.
Coinbase Releases Q2 2024 Earnings Report
Meanwhile, Coinbase recently released its Q2 2024 earnings report, surprising many market observers with its performance. The cryptocurrency exchange outperformed the expectations of Wall Street analysts. While these analysts expected a total revenue of $1.4 billion, the firm posted $1.45 billion amid a broader market boom.
Coinbase’s subscription and service unit generated a massive $599 million in revenue, and this brought the company’s net income to $36 million. This is a significant increase from Q2 2023 when the unit generated $335.4 million. In Q1 2024, the unit generated $510.9 million.
