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10 Best Financial Stocks to Buy According to Billionaire Israel Englander

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In this article, we will take a look at the 10 best financial stocks to buy according to Billionaire Israel Englander.

Millennium Management‘s decision to offer up 15% of the firm to investors turned out to be one of the biggest industry stories of 2025. The giant entity was valued at $14 billion in the deal, and while there is no timetable for founder Israel Englander to step down, Millennium has established a strong leadership team ready to take over when the billionaire leaves. In addition, this is the first time Izzy Englander has sold equity in the company’s nearly 4-decade history.

The latest deal unfolds as the firm expands substantially, now managing more than $79 billion in assets and over 330 investment teams. Millennium’s assets have doubled since mid-2019, aided by raising capital and an annualized return rate of approximately 14%.

Even so, 2025 has not been without its challenges for the hedge fund. Millennium suffered losses during the turbulent spring, when President Trump imposed tariffs. Moreover, one of the giant’s preferred trades, index rebalancing, suffered significant losses in November, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

With that backdrop, let’s explore our list of the best financial stocks to buy according to Billionaire Israel Englander.

Israel Englander of Millennium Management

Our Methodology

To curate our list of the 10 best financial stocks to buy according to billionaire Israel Englander, we scanned Millennium Management’s Q3 2025 13F filings, using Insider Monkey’s 13F database.

We have added the performance of each stock from the end of Q3 2025 through January 20, providing readers with insight into how Millennium Management’s portfolio picks have performed so far.

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 427.7% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 264 percentage points (see more details here).

10. Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION)

Share Price Performance (Sep 30 – Jan 20): 4.44%

Millennium Management’s Q3 Stake Value: $169.3 million

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 37

Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION) ranks among the best financial stocks to buy according to billionaire Israel Englander. On December 22, JPMorgan analyst Anthony Elian maintained a Neutral rating on Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION) and raised the price target to $67, up from $62. The analyst predicts “solid upside potential” for regional banks in 2026, citing favorable drivers such as additional Fed rate cuts, consistent rise in loans, and increased M&A activity.

Separately, Evercore ISI increased its price target for Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION) to $65 from $61 on December 15, while keeping an Outperform rating on it. The boost came after an investor meeting in NYC with Zions Chairman and CEO Harris Simmons and FP&A and IR Director Shannon Drage.

The firm stated that Zions’ management is dedicated to creating significant operating leverage in 2026, with share buybacks possibly on the cards. At the same time, balance-sheet growth is projected to accelerate as commercial loan and SBA trends increase.

Zions Bancorporation, National Association (NASDAQ:ZION) is a Utah-based regional bank that offers commercial and small business banking, retail banking, investment banking, real estate financing, and wealth management.

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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:

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Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

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