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10 Best AI Stock Picks of Motley Fool Asset Management

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In this article, we will discuss the 10 Best AI Stock Picks of Motley Fool Asset Management.

Motley Fool Asset Management offers a range of ETFs that give investors exposure to a diversified basket of stocks. Its flagship fund, the Motley Fool 100 Index ETF (TMFC), had about $1.6 billion in assets as of last year. The ETF focuses on high-quality U.S. companies. In 2025, the fund delivered mixed results relative to its benchmark. The Motley Fool 100 Index ETF (TMFC) gained 1.97% in the fourth quarter, trailing the S&P 500 Total Return Index, which rose 2.66%. For the full year, however, the ETF returned 19.97%, outperforming the benchmark’s 17.88% gain.

Motley Fool Asset Management believes in long-term investing. In a recent post on its website, it mentioned some interesting data points that are very important, especially in the context of today’s highly volatile markets. According to the piece, data shows that about 50% of the S&P 500’s best 50 days between 1995 and 2024 occurred during bear markets.  An initial investment of $10,000 in the S&P 500 in 1995 would have risen to $224,279 by 2024 if it had remained fully invested, while missing just the 10 best-performing days over that period would have left an investor with 54% less.

For this article, we scanned Motley Fool Asset Management’s Q4 portfolio and chose its 10 biggest AI stock picks in terms of stake value. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 498.7% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 303 percentage points (see more details here).

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10. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Motley Fool Asset Management’s Stake: $66.79 Million

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares are down 8% so far this year, and bears believe the selloff could continue. Tesla’s profitability and margins are eroding due to falling market share as the company loses pricing power in a bid to gain customers. Tesla Q4 deliveries fell 16% year over year amid intense competition from other EV makers. Chinese auto giant BYD earlier this year surpassed Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles on a calendar-year basis.

In Q1 this year, Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles, while Wall Street was expecting about 370,000 deliveries.

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) bulls point to Cybertruck as a potential new growth engine. However,  registration and delivery tracking data indicate that Cybertruck volumes remain a small fraction of Tesla’s overall shipments.  In Q1, Tesla Cybertruck deliveries hit the lowest figure since deliveries began in November 2023.

Despite these weaknesses, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has a forward P/E of 166x, highlighting a massive premium even after recent declines.

JPMorgan believes Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) faces a significant downside amid weak fundamentals, delivery trends and a year-over-year decline in energy storage installations. The firm also highlighted what it sees as a disconnect between fundamentals and valuation, noting that Tesla shares are trading more than 50% higher than when deliveries peaked in June 2022, despite sluggish delivery growth since then. JPMorgan maintained its $145 price target for Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), which indicates a massive downsize compared with the current level.

Baron Partners Fund stated the following regarding Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) in its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter:

“In 2025, we exited 30.5% of our position in Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA). We are extremely confident in the company’s prospects and ability to become a significantly more valuable business. The Fund completed its purchase of Tesla shares in 2016 with an ending portfolio weight of 9.6% of total investments. Its average cost of all purchases in the Fund was only $14.22 per share. Due to significant appreciation in the stock, the position increased to 26.7% of the portfolio’s total investments at the end of 2025. Despite offsetting some of the volatility caused by the position’s weight with more stable and uncorrelated investments, Tesla’s stock movements caused increased variability in the entire portfolio. We entered into agreements with a large investment bank to dispose of a portion of the holdings through a redemption in-kind because, we believe, it would have minimal impact on the share price and low transaction costs. Tesla remains a top holding of the Fund. The disposition was a portfolio construction decision and not reflective of reduced confidence in the business.”

9. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

Motley Fool Asset Management’s Stake: $67.06 Million

Visa is down about 10% so far this year. Visa (NYSE:V) operates one of the strongest moats in global finance, running the world’s largest payments network and processing. It dominates the global card network industry with roughly 50%+ credit card market share, significantly ahead of Mastercard and American Express. Visa (NYSE:V) is positioned to benefit from a secular shift as the global digital payments market is projected to reach $2.4 trillion by 2029. As trillions of dollars in paper currency transition to digital rails, Visa (NYSE:V) remains a key beneficiary of this trend.

Visa (NYSE:V) is trading at approximately 24x-25x forward earnings, which is a significant discount compared to its 5-year average of roughly 30x-32x.

Ironvine Capital Partners stated the following regarding Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) in its Q4 2025 investor letter:

“Global payment network Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) are uniquely durable businesses, deeply embedded in the plumbing of global commerce thanks to network effects that have been reinforced over several decades. As the connective tissue between card issuers (deposit and lending institutions), merchants, and card holders, Visa and Mastercard remove friction and fraud from the payment process in mostly invisible ways across hundreds of millions of daily transactions. Today, one easily takes for granted the ability to safely pay nearly any entity in the world with minimal cost or complexity. Visa and Mastercard’s unrivaled scale allow them to provide essential payment services to billions of cardholders and 150+ million merchants for a fraction of a penny per dollar transacted while generating tremendous economics for owners..” (Click here to read the full text).

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The $250 Trillion AI Hype is Real. A few years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d bought this stock.

Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.

Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.

At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000.

Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040.

Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:

  • 175 Teslas
  • 107 Amazons
  • 140 Metas
  • 84 Googles
  • 65 Microsofts
  • And 55 Nvidias

And here’s the wild part — this $250 trillion wave isn’t tied to one company, but to an entire ecosystem of AI innovators set to reshape the global economy.

It’s a leap so massive, it could reshape how businesses, governments, and consumers operate worldwide.

Even if that $250 trillion figure sounds ambitious, major firms like PwC and McKinsey still see AI unlocking multi-trillion-dollar potential.

How could anything be worth that much?

The answer lies in a breakthrough so powerful it’s redefining how humanity works, learns, and creates.

And this breakthrough has already set off a frenzy among hedge funds and Wall Street’s top investors.

What most investors don’t realize is that one under-owned company holds the key to this $250 trillion revolution.

In fact, Verge argues this company’s supercheap AI technology should concern rivals.

Before I reveal the details, let’s talk about how some of the richest people on the planet are positioning themselves.

  • Bill Gates sees artificial intelligence as the “biggest technological advance in my lifetime,” more transformative than the internet or personal computer, capable of improving healthcare, education, and addressing climate change.
  • Larry Ellison — through Oracle, is spending billions on Nvidia chips and partnering with Cohere to embed generative AI across Oracle’s cloud and apps.
  • Warren Buffett — not known for tech hype — says this breakthrough could have a ‘hugely beneficial social impact.

When billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street line up behind the same idea — you know it’s worth paying attention to.

Even as we admire what Tesla, Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft have built, we believe an even greater opportunity lies elsewhere…

But the real story isn’t Nvidia — it’s a much smaller company quietly improving the critical technology that makes this entire revolution possible.

And judging by what I’m hearing from both Silicon Valley insiders and Wall Street veterans…

This prediction might not be bold at all:

A few years from now, you’ll wish you’d owned this stock.

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Wall Street calls this $3 stock a “Melting Ice Cube.” They said the same thing about BTI before it returned 90%.

Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

My name is Inan Dogan. I’m the co-founder and Research Director of Insider Monkey. I have an important message for you today.

Since March 2017, my stock picks have returned 16.5% annually. Today, I’ve found an opportunity even bigger than my British American Tobacco call.

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