Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF
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has sold nearly $14 million worth of Tesla Inc. shares
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the ETF’s first sale of the EV maker’s stock in September. But Tesla remains by far the ETF’s largest holding with a weight of 11.38% as of Sept. 14, while 2nd-place Roku Inc.’s
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weighting is 8.08%. The ETF said it sold 51,155 shares of Tesla on Wednesday, which based on the closing price of $271.30 would be valued at $13.88 million. That follows the sale of a total of 114,799 Tesla shares in August, which based on the Aug. 31 closing price of $258.08 would be valued at $29.63 million. Tesla’s stock rose 0.7% in premarket trading Thursday. The ETF also said it sold 178,672 shares of DraftKings Inc.
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which would be valued at $5.49 million at Wednesday’s close. The digital sports entertainment and gaming company is the ETF’s 8th-largest holding with a weighting of 4.1%. Separately, the ETF said it bought 458,265 shares of Roblox Corp. shares
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valued at $12.71 million at Wednesday’s close. The online gaming services company is the ETF’s 17th-largest holding with a 2.87% weighting. The ETF, which gained 0.9% in premarket trading, has run up 39.0% year to date through Wednesday, while the S&P 500
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has advanced 16.4%.