Ken Fisher’s Top 5 Stock Picks

1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Ken Fisher’s Stake: $10.24 billion

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the biggest stockholding of Ken Fisher. Ken Fisher’s hedge fund owns a $10.24 billion stake in Apple as of the end of the second quarter of 2023. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s new iPhone launch date is coming closer and some analysts believe the company will crush it with the new iPhone 15. Citi analyst Atif Malik recently maintained his Buy rating and said the upcoming iPhone launch could be a catalyst for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares.

As of the end of the second quarter of 2023, 135 hedge funds in Insider Monkey’s database reported owning stakes in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).

Choice Equities Capital Management made the following comment about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its second quarter 2023 investor letter:

“Dramatic valuation differences across market cap sizes continue. This has been the case for some time now. Perhaps I have spent too much time discussing these dichotomies, as generally, I feel like if we pick the right stocks and manage market exposures thoughtfully, our equities- oriented portfolio will prosper across various market cycles. However, when markets become as lopsided as they have lately, I feel additional discussion on the market environment is worthwhile, if only to help highlight the opportunities that are available and the likely path forward. I expect future discussions to soon be focused again on our moderately concentrated portfolio. But for now, let’s take one last in-depth look at how far reaching these valuation dichotomies have again become.(Please note: charts that accompany the following can be found in the Appendix.)

Take Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) for example. It is the largest stock by market cap, and fairly considered one of the best companies in the world. The company has been extraordinarily successful and improved standards of living everywhere in the process with their ubiquitous products. Along the way, shareholders have been richly rewarded, with shares increasing nearly fourteen-fold over the last ten years while generating an annualized total shareholder return of 31%, including dividends.

On the back of another big quarter for large cap tech, it is now the first stock to surpass the $3T market cap threshold. This makes its weighting in the ~$37T market cap of the S&P 500, ~8%. It also means this one stock’s market cap is larger than that of the entire ~$2.98T market cap of the Russell 2000 index, the first time in history a single stock has outweighed the Russell 2000 – aside from two brief days in September 2020 when Apple’s market cap then accomplished the same…” (Click here to read the full text)

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