In this article, we discuss the Michael Burry Stock Portfolio: Top 8 Stock Picks in 2026.
Michael Burry is an iconic investor and hedge fund manager, best known for his historic, multibillion-dollar bet against the United States housing market before the 2008 collapse. Immortalized in Michael Lewis book and the subsequent film The Big Short, his career is defined by a fierce intellectual independence and an unconventional path to financial stardom. Originally trained as a physician, Burry earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University and began a residency in neurology at Stanford. However, his true passion lay in analyzing financial markets. In the late 1990s, he spent his nights dissecting corporate financial statements and publishing meticulous stock analyses on early internet message boards. His extraordinary stock-picking acumen caught the eye of legendary value investors like Joel Greenblatt, prompting Burry to leave medicine in 2000 to launch his hedge fund, Scion Capital.
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Burry operates strictly under the principles of value investing, heavily inspired by Benjamin Graham’s concept of a margin of safety. Rather than following market sentiment, he focuses intensely on downside protection and unearthing deep value in overlooked, illiquid micro-cap stocks. He achieved immense early success by shorting overvalued tech stocks during the dot-com crash. His defining achievement, however, came in the mid-2000s. Through exhausting, line-by-line analysis of mortgage lending data, Burry recognized that subprime real estate was built on a foundation of bad debt. He persuaded major investment banks to create credit default swaps, effectively shorting the housing market. Despite immense pushback and threats of lawsuits from his own investors, Burry’s conviction never wavered. When the market collapsed, Scion generated billions in profit.
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It is important to clarify that the stocks listed below were picked from the public comments that Burry has made on his investments. He has explicitly mentioned some of his holdings during these public posts while only alluding to others. However, based on a careful assessment of the comments, the stocks listed below largely align with his investment philosophy. Data for the hedge fund sentiment surrounding each stock was taken from Insider Monkey’s Q4 2025 database of 1041 elite hedge funds.
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Michael Burry of Scion Asset Management
Michael Burry Stock Portfolio: Top Stock Picks in 2026
8. GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME)
Latest reports suggest that Michael Burry has sold off his entire stake in GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) after the CEO of the gaming firm made a surprising offer to acquire multinational ecommerce firm eBay for more than $55 billion. Burry revealed in a post on blogging platform Substack earlier this month that he had sold off his entire stake in GameStop following the eBay bid. Interestingly, eBay rejected the GameStop bid last week over financing doubts, calling the proposal neither credible nor attractive. Burry has prior history with GameStop and just four months ago, published a bullish Substack article on the company.
Burry had bought the stock in 2018 but sold his position before the short squeeze of 2021. This short squeeze led to the company becoming the ultimate meme stock. In his bullish thesis on GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME), published in late January, Burry said, per news agency Reuters, that the shares were unlikely to see a repeat of the 2021 short squeeze. “The value is not in another big short squeeze… which is not likely to happen. At least, the most commonly cited theories oriented to such an outcome do not amount to much for me,” he said. Burry noted that GameStop’s stock was largely a wager on Cohen’s ability to turn the company’s cash pile into growth opportunities. “Ryan is making lemonade out of lemons. He has a crappy business, and he is milking it best he can while taking advantage of the meme stock phenomenon to raise cash and wait for an opportunity to make a big buy of a real growing cash cow business.”
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