Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest Buys Over 850,000 Shares of Pacific Bio

By Chris Lange Published Aug 3, 8:35AM EDT

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A couple of ARK Invest exchange-traded funds run by ETF star Cathie Wood bought over 850,000 shares of Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) altogether on Monday, as the prices of these ETFs were up less than 1% in Monday’s session. These funds are up a fair amount in the past year.

ARK Genomic Revolution ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKG) bought 96,000 shares, while ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKK | ARKK Price Prediction) bought 756,850 shares. At Monday’s closing price, this would have valued these purchases at roughly $26.6 million altogether. This is only a small fraction of the total holdings. ARKG is up roughly 59% in the past year and ARKK is up 53%.

Check out all of ARK Invest’s buys for Monday:

Fund	Ticker	Company	Shares
ARKF	ETSY	Etsy	64,213
ARKG	VERV	Verve Therapeutics	94,600
ARKG	SURF	Surface Oncology	14,000
ARKG	SMFR	Sema4	551,578
ARKG	SGFY	Signify Health	102,356
ARKG	RPTX	Repare Therapeutics	5,897
ARKG	QSI	Quantum-Si	70,000
ARKG	PACB	Pacific Biosciences of California	96,000
ARKG	FATE	Fate Therapeutics	27,556
ARKG	CMIIU	CM Life Sciences II	5,000
ARKG	EDIT	Editas Medicine	30,356
ARKG	MASS	908 Devices	10,671
ARKK	VCYT	Veracyte	11,405
ARKK	PD	PagerDuty	167,000
ARKK	PACB	Pacific Biosciences of California	756,850
ARKK	CRSP	CRISPR Therapeutics	55,000
ARKK	BEAM	Beam Therapeutics	81,497
ARKQ	MKFG	Markforged	18,200
ARKQ	PATH	UiPath	283,325
ARKQ	SPFR	Jaws Spitfire Acquisition	74,000
ARKQ	U	Unity Software	166,740
ARKQ	LMT	Lockheed Martin	57,202
ARKQ	IRDM	Iridium Communications	202,159
ARKQ	AVAV	AeroVironment	15,267
ARKW	VUZI	Vuzix	99,712
ARKW	PD	PagerDuty	43,000
ARKW	KVSB	Khosla Venture Acquisition II	90,000
ARKW	TWLO	Twilio	31,572
ARKW	ETSY	Etsy	61,144
ARKW	CND	Concord Acquisition	35,000
ARKX	AMZN	Amazon.com	373
ARKX	LMT	Lockheed Martin	5,784
ARKX	SPFR	Jaws Spitfire Acquisition	16,000

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