hey what's up everyone my name is Olive welcome back to my world of stocks now we're really just now starting to get that first wave of filings from the SEC being released to the public it shows what the biggest institutional investors the rich Elites are buying out there in terms of stocks and uh one of the reports that just got released is uh the one on Black Rock the largest asset management company in in the entire world being led of course by CEO Larry Fink and uh it's a company that holds many trillions of dollars
of uh assets so it's really one of the biggest Market Movers out there with huge influence over the entire market so it's always a lot of fun to see what stocks they're buying what stocks they're selling today we're going to run through the five largest purchases that they just made last quarter this is the most recent information that we have available to us and I'll give you my own opinion on each one of those purchases as always I'll even rank those stocks from best to worst two based on that opinion and at today's prices so
uh let's go ahead and jump into it by the way we will also be checking out other famous investors uh as their reports come out to us too so please consider subscribing if you don't want to miss out on that content but with all that said let's jump into this list here and we'll sort this from smallest to largest position in their portfolio but I got to say guys right off the bat purchase number one was a bit of a shock to me because it was none other than Tesla Tri symbol TSL a who you
know for as popular as they might be to you know us smaller retail investors I actually feel like it's pretty rare to see them make the list of stocks that big investors are buying the rich Elites in fact Warren Buffett for example has never even consider touching the stock but here Black Rock decided to buy another 7.4 million shares bringing their stake up to over $81 billion worth in the portfolio now the thing about Tesla stock is that it's a pretty wild one they actually had a rough start to this year down over 11% year-to
date so far so maybe Black Rock will look to continue adding in this new year given that you know it's been falling however this is also coming off of a giant surge at the end of last year that uh still leaves the stock up over 2,000% in just the past decade alone and in my opinion the most recent rally had a lot to do with I would say two primary Tailwinds one being their UPC coming launch of Robo taxis the other being musk's new friendship really with Trump that will likely benefit his company's help them
climb over various regulatory hurdles uh what is really likely to be the biggest obstacle for fully autonomous driving and of course launching a new Robo taxi service which I believe is desper desperately needed for Tesla to really justify their giant market cap is north of $1 trillion especially given their recent slowdown and growth with Sal sales actually falling last year thankfully though Tesla is actively working on multiple growth drivers like energy Logistics AI robotics cheaper Vehicles full self-driving and of course that Robo taxi service all things that I do believe will find success uh over
time AI for example we know has really seen a giant surge in demand because of companies wanting to run more efficiently well three things that will be very important for that will be energy a autonomy and even robotics Tesla themselves are already using the Tesla bot in their factories and there's no telling how much really free or spare time and even savings uh autonomous driving will free up for both companies and consumers too hence why analysts think that all these different markets you look at energy Logistics you have whatever you uh whichever one you like
uh all of them are going to be worth trillions of dollars long term with Tesla themselves already a head of much of the competition thanks to how early on they invested in these Technologies in fact it's estimated that they already collect over 5 million miles of full self-driving every single day whereas weo for comparison it's only doing a few thousand not to mention the millions more of Tesla customers already out on the road doing all the work for them for free mind you collecting billions of miles of data that Tesla then uses to train their
neural network and algorithms thanks to what is called Shadow mode this is a program that runs in the background really every Tesla vehicle out there generating control inputs without actually executing them to which it then analyzes and compares to the actual Maneuvers and actions being done by the human driver thus helping the entire platform get smarter over time it's pretty crazy stuff now obviously we only got a glimpse of this potential at their recent Robo taxi event however more recently someone posted on X their trip from the Oakland Airport to San Francisco without ever having
to touch the steering wheel or pedals to which Elon responded to by saying that it only gets better from here as Tesla is on track to launch a robo taxi service in Austin by June with a bigger roll out to many other cities by the end of this year obviously musk is known for you know over promising at times but hey these are still uh goals that uh could be achievable theoretically and would definitely move the needle I think for the company and the stock but overall I would just say that the pros when looking
at that stock are the upcoming Innovations the long-term growth potential and a close relationship with the president that will really speed up really help them get over those reg regulatory hurdles that would would otherwise I think slow them down by a lot however the cons are a very rich valuation coupled with current slowdown and growth and those are you know nothing nothing to sneeze at and because of that even though Tesla is one of my biggest stocks in my own portfolio which I'm also up a huge amount on and I don't plan on selling any
of my shares anytime soon but I'm still going to have to rank them around the middle for now at number three until we see what else is on this list because there are some concerns to be aware of all right coming in at purchase number two though is a stock that will absolutely challenge Tesla on our rankings here and that is the mighty Amazon ticker symbol amzn who Black Rock has been consistently adding to every quarter with another 21 million more shares added this latest one bringing the stake up to over $150 billion and worth
over 3% of their overall portfolio by the way that might not seem like a big increase there you know oh it's only a 3% rise but that actually equates to over $25 billion for any regularized hedge fund or asset manager out there uh that would be an unbelievably gigantic purchase so it just show shows you how much power and influence Black Rock can really have over the market now having said that I not only agree with this purchase as Amazon is usually a top five holding in both my personal portfolio and even our community one
too but it also just makes perfect sense for the world's most dominant uh asset management company to also want to own the world's largest e-commerce and especially cloud computing company too and that's probably what I'm most excited about myself given the importance of artificial intelligence long term where most companies won't be able to to afford you know building their own massive data centers with super expensive server racks and computers and all the processors and everything that goes to them even having access to the energy that is needed to run all of that and so on
you get the idea but what these companies can do is pay much smaller amounts smaller fees to Amazon over time to basically rent them out uh for their own use too all of which is very high margin for Amazon which is why they're seeing such incredible growth on the bottom line where net income nearly doubled in size last year that's incredible and yet as massive as 60 billion dollars of pure profit might seem it was still nothing compared to the more than half a trillion dollars that they do in Revenue which is still somehow growing
at a double digit rate too and that right there is the main reason why even though the stock has soared to an all-time high I still consider it to be a solid buy for pretty much anyone thinking longterm because of that massive growth potential on the bottom line there's just such a discrepancy there so much room that they can still make up over time once they actually start carrying about profits which is also why their valuation is not even as expensive as you might think when you look at more forward-looking metrics their PE forward p
ratio by the way is about 80% cheaper than their 5-year average and their peeg ratio price of earnings to growth is almost the same as a sector if you can believe it and that's uh pretty amazing so you couple that with the opport unities in Ai and everything else that they do so many things Amazon does and yeah they easily get the number one ranking from me on this list moving on to purchase number three though well if Amazon is usually a top five holding of mine well this next one has actually been my number
one biggest for a while now and that is the tech giant Microsoft ticker symbol msft which Black Rock added another 14 million more shares of bringing the stake up to just shy of a quarter of a trillion dollar and we almost 5% of their entire portfolio now when it comes to Microsoft what I love the most about them is the unbelievable profitability which by the way they also grow by double digit rate on both the top and bottom line just like Amazon despite their massive size too which Speaking of Amazon by the way despite Microsoft
doing less than half their sales they actually do over $30 billion dollar more in profit that's insane profitability at that scale and and the margins that we're talking about here and it has a lot to do with just how good Microsoft has really become at hooking users onto their platform then overtime charging subscription fees that are very consistent they're also very high margin for them something that really nobody in my opinion does a better job of than Microsoft when you look at Windows Office LinkedIn uh GitHub there's gaming uh and of course Azure and even
AI now with co-pilot and so many other things too but really AI well that's where most of the grow growth is going to be coming from longterm as Azure it's already the second largest cloud provider that still manages to grow consistently by over 20% each quarter with margins above 70% too and I expect that to easily continue long term given the rise in AI demand which uh Microsoft is H going all in on promising to invest now another 80 billion on AI enabled data centers this year alone something that only a massively profitable company like
Microsoft could ever really dream of being able to afford right only they could really afford that and a couple of you know Amazon Google those types of companies of course though like Amazon the stock has also been an incredible performer over the years meaning you're not going to find a cheap valuation here either but in terms of ranking them well I'd say that they're just about tied with Amazon and I don't see any reason why any long-term minded investor shouldn't hold both stocks in their portfolio I do that's you but that's just me anyway because
I do have to give you some kind of ranking here I suppose I'll give the very slight Edge to Amazon just for having a market cap that is over half a trillion dollars lower than Microsoft's where I just see perhaps a little more upside potential too given the larger room for growth on the bottom line when you look at the discrepancy there for Amazon profits and sales okay having said that though purchase number four does actually have the possibility of dethroning either company really from our rankings as we have the ultra popular AI Juggernaut Nvidia
ticker symbol nvda who Black Rock added another 38 million more shares of bringing the stake up to over a quarter of a trillion dollars and worth more than 5% of the overall portfolio and yeah if there's one common theme that we've been seeing so far from Black Rock in this video it's that they are investing very heavily into artificial intelligence stocks this year because they're probably looking at it as something that is likely to explode longer term so they want to get in now as much as they can well what a better play on that
than you know a company like Nvidia a hardware and even software specialist that is setting themselves up to really benefit from virtually all areas of AI investment for example one of their new servers combining Blackwell gpus and their Grace CPUs showed a performance increase of 30 times greater than the previous generation Hopper while still ening to consume 25 times less energy as well both metrics being of course super important for AI development you want Power you also want efficiency well Japan for example is using them to create their most powerful supercomputer yet which is also
backed by SoftBank who is a leading partner on Trump's new half a trillion dollar Stargate project that will create giant massive data centers using millions of Nvidia processors it's pretty crazy and their upcoming Ruben chips may impress even further they're they're looking to build those on uh an even smaller 3 nanometer process and with upgraded hbm for memory together boosting performance while still managing to lower its energy use as well meanwhile their software also continues to be a game changer with AI driven platforms like the Omniverse Nvidia Drive metropolis and more alongside their new AI
agents and blueprints that not only help companies automate tasks huge for the future but even help them build their own AI agents too all running on Nvidia software and hardware for that Optimal Performance all of which has helped both their sales and profits uh profit Skyrocket with revenues growing by uh more than 18 times larger since the pandemic it's insane on top of incredible margins consistently H hovering north of 70% making them one of the most profitable chip companies in the world too hence why the valuation is actually cheaper than the sector on a PEG
ratio basis by 30% how is that even possible uh it's really because of their incredible growth on the bottom line well despite the stock soaring by over 1,00% in just the past 5 years that valuation is actually still pretty attractive now it's honestly a stock that could be tied with Microsoft and Amazon I would say when you look at how incredibly successful they've become however with the market cap now north of $3 trillion I know it can be a hard pill to swallow it's really only sitting behind apple as the richest company in the the
world so I don't know I just think maybe you give a slight edge here to Amazon and Microsoft for that little bit safer of uh price level in terms of market cap at least but also because I just feel those companies are more Diversified so it does make them a little safer larger more Diversified but Nvidia is no slouch either I love all three of them um and Nvidia is actually my second largest stock in my personal portfolio too but like I said I will put them just behind those other two fin though this leaves
us with the last purchase of the list the largest position of all for Black Rock and that is in apple tricker symbol AAP adding another nearly 30 million more shares and bringing the stake up to over $280 billion worth 5.7% of the overall portfolio now guys I'll make this short and sweet because you know my feelings on Apple stock have been made pretty well known at this point but that's that I love the business I think the ecosystem of products and services is very sticky and I even see some long-term growth potential with integrating AI
into that entire ecosystem making them more attractive for upgrades and new subscriptions which they're also planning to do by the way in China now through a partnership with Alibaba where Alibaba is basically going to integrate their AI into iPhones and uh that's something that could actually help boost their um struggling sales in that very important region plus I also think that iPhone sales could get a little bit of a boost as well from the upcoming foldable line whenever they do decide to release them but that's just something that I think you know could convince some
longtime users that are bored or tired of the same old iPhones being released year after year releasing a folding phone folding iPhone I think uh could actually be pretty popular I have a folding phone myself it's an Android one but I love using it and I think an apple alternative could could perform well it'll be fresh and exciting in you for for customers but even beyond that guys I also see plenty of areas that they could invest their gigantic pile of cash for new out of the-box opportunities that we may not even be aware of
yet however the valuation is just way too rich to get me excited here which is a feeling that I don't share alone as even the great Warren Buffett one of Apple's biggest Bulls over the years has now been selling out of the stock at an incredibly alarming rate that's not to say that apple is all of a sudden a bad stock to own I still think that they'll have a pretty good long-term success hence why I own a small piece of it my myself too but with the price as high as it is with a
market cap north of $3.6 trillion making them not only the largest in the world but also they're ahead of other stocks that I happen to like much more like Nvidia Microsoft Amazon Google and meta some of which uh they even Apple eclipses them by over a trillion dollars well that's just too rich for my blood considering the volatile financial performance that can sometimes be stagnant or even in Decline depending on the season so it's uh not a stock that I'd be too excited about at these levels again it is a stock that I own myself
and I do plan to continue holding it and overall I do like what they're doing but on this list in particular um it's unfortunately going to have to go in last place for me as I just see more opportunities with these other names really speaks to how strong of a list this is though and while they may not be the most exciting stocks here uh you know maybe kind of highrisk uh options that people love to speculate on these what these are are pretty safe well-rounded Diversified Investments here in technology granted but some of the
best the really the best ones in there and um I think you'd have a tough time just finding any flaws in most of these companies here so I like the list myself and of course I own each of these stocks too but hey I'd love to hear what you all have to say down below what do you think about these stocks uh do you not like them what socks are you considering buying uh yeah I love to hear your thoughts but thanks again for stopping bye my friends I hope you enjoyed the video I hope
you're all doing well out there and I will catch you in the next one all right take care everybody bye-bye
