Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Buys Over $176 Million Worth of Roku Shares

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Published: August 6, 2021 8:45 am

A couple of the ARK Invest exchange-traded funds run by ETF star Cathie Wood made a sizable purchase on Thursday. The fund bought over 240,000 shares of Roku Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) altogether, as the price of these ETFs gained over 1% on the day. Note that these funds are up significantly in the past year.

Specifically, ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKK) bought 337,688 shares of Fate Therapeutics and ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKW) bought 99,201 shares. At Thursday’s closing price, this would have valued this purchase at roughly $176.3 million altogether. Even though this is a small fraction of the total holdings, every little bit counts. ARKK is up 49% in the past year and ARKW is up closer to 48%.

Here is a look at the other purchases across the ARK ETFs:

Fund	Ticker	Company	Shares
ARKG	SMFR	Sema4	73,710
ARKG	CRSP	CRISPR Therapeutics	15,000
ARKG	MASS	908 Devices	70,000
ARKG	SURF	Surface Oncology	38,017
ARKG	RPTX	Repare Therapeutics	525
ARKG	SGFY	Signify Health	21,100
ARKK	EDIT	Editas Medicine	25,000
ARKK	SRNG	Soaring Eagle Acquisition	1,926,400
ARKK	PATH	UiPath	119,500
ARKK	ROKU	Roku	337,688
ARKQ	AVAV	Aerovironment	9,618
ARKQ	MKFG	Markforged	224,000
ARKQ	SPFR	Jaws Spitfire Acquisition	10,336
ARKW	ROKU	Roku	99,201
ARKW	GENI	Genius Sports	280,214
ARKX	SPFR	Jaws Spitfire Acquisition	9,900

Catherine Wood, the CEO and CIO of ARK Investment Management, is a minority and nonvoting shareholder of 24/7 Wall St., owner of a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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