Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Top 5 Stock Picks

In this article, we discuss billionaire Ken Griffin’s top 5 stock picks. For Griffin’s investment philosophy, and his comments on certain stocks please see Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Top 5 Stock Picks.

5. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)

Value: $576,472,000
Percent of Ken Griffin’s 13F Portfolio: 0.15%
No. of Hedge Fund Holders: 258

Microsoft ranks 5^th on the list of billionaire Ken Griffin’s top 10 stock picks. MSFT shares are up 66% over the last 12 months. Citadel increased its hold in the company by roughly 50%. It now owns 2.6 million shares of the company, worth $576.47 million.

Fisher Asset Management is one of the 258 hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey having stakes in MSFT at the end of the fourth quarter. The fund owns over 23.4 million shares of the company, worth $5.2 billion. MSFT ranks 10th in our list of the 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds: 2020 Q4 Rankings.

In their Q4 2020 investor letter, Bretton Fund highlighted a few stocks and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“Microsoft’s stock also had a great year, returning 42.4% on increased earnings per share of 30%. The main driver of their growth in recent years is their cloud computing business, and while it did see a bump in demand as office workers went remote, most of the growth is from the continued shift of corporate computing systems to “the cloud.” We think this shift is still in its early stages.”