Cathie Wood's ARK ETFs once again saw significant transactions on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, with a focus on technology and biotech stocks. The largest transaction of the day was the purchase of 738,367 shares of The Trade Desk Inc ( $TTD (+0.74%) ) with a total value of $39,266,357. This move underscores ARK's continued confidence in the digital advertising platform, where the fund had already significantly increased its positions in recent days.

Another notable transaction involved Block Inc ( $SQ (+0.6%) ), formerly known as Square. Here ARK sold 215,543 shares, representing a sizable value of $15,741,105. This sale represents one of the larger divestitures of the day and could indicate a strategic realignment of ARK's position towards the financial services and digital payments company.

ARK also made a significant purchase of 643,406 shares of Pinterest Inc ( $PINS ) worth $21,998,051. The social media company has repeatedly been in ARK's focus in the past, as evidenced by the continuous purchases over the past week. This trend points to a bullish assessment of Pinterest's growth prospects on the part of ARK.

In the biotech sector, ARK's ARK ETF purchased 128,896 shares of CRISPR Therapeutics AG ( $CRSP (-6.83%) ) for a total value of $714,567, continuing its investment in the gene-editing company. On the flip side, various ARK ETFs divested shares of DraftKings Inc ( $DKNG (+1%) ), Guardant Health Inc ( $GH (+2.23%) ), Robinhood Markets Inc ($HOOD (+2%) ), Palantir Technologies Inc ($PLTR (-6.93%) ), Roblox Corp ( $RBLX ) and Shopify Inc ($SHOP (+6.58%) ). The largest sell-off was DraftKings, with 221,203 shares worth $9,452,004 sold.

Other notable buys included Exact Sciences Corp ( $EXAS (+0.02%) ) and Personalis Inc ( $PSNL (+7.96%) ). ARK bought 93,753 and 134,035 shares worth $3,835,435 and $603,157 respectively. The continued purchases in these stocks could indicate a focused strategy targeting innovative healthcare companies.

Smaller transactions were also part of the day's activity. ARK bought shares in Compass Pathways PLC ( $CMPS (+5.83%) ) and 10X Genomics Inc ( $TXG (+4.76%) ). Despite the smaller dollar amounts, these purchases could be part of a long-term strategy that focuses on up-and-coming companies in the respective sectors.

Some of dear Cathie's transactions don't need to be understood but well, the young lady's returns speak for themselves.

$ARKK (-1.08%) and $ARKF (-0.37%) over 70% return since 365 days, I can only shine with +27% with my portfolio.

I will remain invested in $TTD (+0.74%) My current portfolio has a lot of risk, as I have generated some cash.

At the moment I'm considering whether I should possibly $HMWO (+0.05%) and $EQQQ (-0.72%) or just the $VUSA (-0.22%) into the portfolio.

Temporarily sold $AMD (-3.56%) +35%, $HIMS (-8.64%) +15%, $DOCN (-3.19%) +9%.

I would re-enter Hims and AMD at certain prices and possibly add other companies to the portfolio if they fit my selection.

My positions:

$SOFI (-2.94%)

$ZETA (+0.3%)

$TTD (+0.74%)

On the watchlist

$DDOG (+0.18%)

$LNTH (+0.84%)

$LMND (+1.63%)

$TOST (+1.3%)

$DASH (+0.28%)

$BROS

$APLD (-0.44%)

$SCI (+0.59%)

The price/sales ratio (P/S) relative to sales growth is a one-dimensional view, but nevertheless provides a good initial overview:

Table = sorted in descending order by market capitalization

Which companies do you see as having the greatest potential in the next 5 years?

$PLTR (-6.93%)

$NOW (+0.37%)

$SHOP (+6.58%)

$SPOT (-3.82%)

$PANW (-1.27%)

$CRWD (-1.48%)

$CSU (+3.25%)

$HOOD (+2%)

$RBLX

$ABNB (-1.25%)

$COIN (+1.92%)

$FTNT (-0.38%)

$NET (-4.06%)

$AXON (-0.86%)

$TTD (+0.74%)

$RDDT (-0.01%)

$DUOL

$HIMS (-8.64%)

$BMBL

Source: Finchat

$PLTR (-6.93%)

$NOW (+0.37%)

$SPOT (-3.82%)

$PANW (-1.27%)

$SHOP (+6.58%)

$CRWD (-1.48%)

$FTNT (-0.38%)

$ABNB (-1.25%)

$COIN (+1.92%)

$AXON (-0.86%)

$RBLX

$NET (-4.06%)

$HOOD (+2%)

$TTD (+0.74%)

$DUOL

$HIMS (-8.64%)

It is now slowly becoming clear who has what it takes to make good profits in the coming years.

Here are my top 30 companies by category, which I am particularly looking at in the current crash.

Some are still overvalued, others are already very attractive at the current price level.

Tier 1 (high corporate quality and strong growth)

Airbnb $ABNB (-1.25%)

Alphabet $GOOGL (-0.67%)

Amazon $AMZN (-1.27%)

ASML $ASML (-0.29%)

Axon $AXON (-0.86%)

Cadence $CDNS (+0.05%)

Constellation Software $CSU (+3.25%)

Crowdstrike $CRWD (-1.48%)

Fair Isaac $FICO (+3.69%)

Hermes $RMS (+0.42%)

Intuit $INTU (-0.08%)

Intuitive Surgical $ISRG (+2.4%)

Mastercard $MA (+0.71%)

Meta $META (-2.33%)

Netflix $NFLX (-1.05%)

Microsoft $MSFT (-0.15%)

Palantir $PLTR (-6.93%)

Tesla $TSLA (-2.01%)

Tier-2 (high business quality and moderate growth)

Booking $BKNG (-0.28%)

Costco $COST (-0.53%)

Ferrari $RACE (-0.74%)

Moody's $MCO (+0.36%)

MSCI $MSCI (-0.34%)

Transdigm $TDG (+0.18%)

Tier-3 (medium / solid corporate quality and strong growth)

Hims & Hers $HIMS (-8.64%)

Robinhood $HOOD (+2%)

Roblox $RBLX

Shopify $SHOP (+6.58%)

Spotify $SPOT (-3.82%)

The Trade Desk $TTD (+0.74%)

I bought on Friday and am buying again today - even in the course of the next few days and weeks, when we could probably see even lower prices.

Where are you buying?

Revenue Forward 3Y CAGR and Forward P/S Ratio (sorted in ascending order)

Hims & Hers: 31.9% / 3.4x $HIMS (-8.64%)

Spotify: 14.9% / 5.6x $SPOT (-3.82%)

Airbnb: 10.4% / 6.8x $ABNB (-1.25%)

Roblox: 19.4% / 7.3x $RBLX

Robinhood: 17.0% / 10.6x $HOOD (+2%)

The Trade Desk: 19,4% / 11,1x $TTD (+0.74%)

Fortinet: 14.4% / 11.5x $FTNT (-0.38%)

Shopify: 22.6% / 11.9x $SHOP (+6.58%)

Palo Alto Networks: 14.7% / 12.2x $PANW (-1.27%)

ServiceNow: 19.5% / 13.4x $NOW

Duolingo: 26.7% / 13.7x $DUOL

Axon Enterprise: 20.9% / 15.5x $AXON (-0.86%)

Crowdstrike: 22.5% / 17.2x $CRWD (-1.48%)

Cloudflare: 27.2% / 20.9x $NET (-4.06%)

Palantir: 30.8% / 52.6 $PLTR (-6.93%)

Palantir and Hims & Hers are not the same...

Even if Palantir increases its sales by an ambitious 30% every year over the next 10 years and achieves a free cash flow margin of 45% (!), the current share price is still >20% above fair value (assumption: 3% terminal growth, 8% discount rate) - even though the share has already corrected by >30%.

Your opinion?

Airbnb $ABNB (-1.25%)

Amazon $AMZN (-1.27%)

Axon $AXON (-0.86%)

Cadence $CDNS (+0.05%)

Constellation Software $CSU (+3.25%)

Costco $COST (-0.53%)

Crowdstrike $CRWD (-1.48%)

Fair Isaac $FICO (+3.69%)

Ferrari $RACE (-0.74%)

Hermes $RMS (+0.42%)

Hims & Hers $HIMS (-8.64%)

Intuit $INTU (-0.08%)

Intuitive Surgical $ISRG (+2.4%)

Mastercard $MA (+0.71%)

Microsoft $MSFT (-0.15%)

Moody's $MCO (+0%)

MSCI $MSCI (-0.34%)

Palantir $PLTR (-6.93%)

Robinhood $HOOD (+2%)

Roblox $RBLX

Shopify $SHOP (+6.58%)

Tesla $TSLA (-2.01%)

The Trade Desk $TTD (+0.74%)

Transdigm $TDG (+0.18%)

Select a maximum of 8-10 positions from this list that have the best risk/reward ratio and are reasonably valued. Then there is a good chance of outperforming the S&P 500.

Your opinion?

I will be paying particular attention to the following companies next week when they publish their quarterly figures:

Palantir $PLTR (-6.93%)

Spotify $SPOT (-3.82%)

Chipotle $CMG (+3.58%)

Alphabet $GOOGL (-0.67%)

Fair Isaac $FICO (+3.69%)

AMD $AMD (-3.56%)

Novo Nordisk $NOVO B (+1.06%)

Roblox $RBLX

Hilton $HLT (-0.38%)

Amazon $AMZN (-1.27%)

Do you also take a closer look here or do you have other companies in mind?

Week in review 12.10.

All-time highs for S&P 500, Dow Jones, Air Products & Chemicals, American Express, Arista Networks, Bank of New York Mellon, BlackRock, Caterpillar, CAVA, Fiserv, GE Vernova, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Morgan Stanley, Motorola Solutions, Piper Sandler, Royal Caribbean, Uber, Unum

52-week highs for Carnival, Commerzbank, GE Aerospace, Hilton Worldwide, MicroStrategy, Norwegian Cruise, Palantir, Ralph Lauren, Robinhood Markets, Sea Ltd. , Shake Shack, Tangier, Teledyne

Tesla Cybercab / Robotaxi planned from 2026 for under 30,000$. In addition, an autonomous bus with 20 seats was presented, share falls -8.1%, market is disappointed, -19% 1-year performance

Nvidia partner Hon Hai increases capacity to meet "crazy" AI demand, Nvidia shares +8.3% this week, +176% 1-year performance

AMD unveils MI325X AI accelerator to compete with Nvidia's H200, customers include Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Dell, Oracle, Meta, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Supermicro, Lenovo and Databricks, AMD launches EPYC 5th Gen Datacenter CPU to compete with Intel's Xeon, AMD currently has 34% market share in Datacenter CPUs, MI350 coming in 2025 to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell, AMD stock drops -4%, apparently sell the news event, +45% 1-year performance

92% of desktop processor sales at major German online retailer Mindfactory were from AMD last week, Intel only at 8% share and -36% 1-year performance

TSMC with good quarterly figures, share price rises slightly, +97% 1-year performance

JPMorgan with good quarterly figures, share +5.1%, +48% 1-year performance

Wells Fargo with good quarterly figures, share +6.5%, +49% 1-year performance

PepsiCo and Samsung with poor quarterly figures, shares fall slightly

Amazon Pharmacy announces same-day delivery of prescription drugs in 20 more US states and expands its service to almost half of the states in 2025, +43% % 1-year performance

Jefferies says Apple's hopes for an AI phone are overdone and high expectations are premature, Hold rating, +26% 1-year performance

The situation is similar at Microsoft after Oppenheimer downgraded its rating from "Outperform" to "Perform", it was the second such downgrade by analysts in recent weeks, AI sales are overestimated and shares have underperformed since July due to "AI fatigue", plus losses at OpenAI, +26% 1-year performance

Two Google scientists from the subsidiary DeepMind receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, they developed the AI model "AlphaFold2", which can be used to predict the structures of all 200 million known proteins, the AI is used in 190 countries, for example in the clarification of antibiotic resistance or the use of enzymes to break down plastics, Alphabet shareholders like this, +12% 1-year performance

Inperial Brands increases dividend, now pays out quarterly and buys back shares, share price rises 5%, +36% 1-year performance

FTX - customers will soon get their balances paid out after the crypto exchange went bankrupt in 2022 and the management was imprisoned

Shortseller Hindenburg Research with allegations of fraud and safety concerns for children at gaming service Roblox, share price falls -6%, even -70% since November 2021

After two very positive weeks, China stocks fall like a flash in the pan as the market expected more stimulus from the Chinese dictator. Dictator, Hang Seng with worst day since the 2008 financial crisis, this week

China strengthens real estate sector and signals more spending ahead, Finance Minister announces measures to support real estate sector today and government would now have more room to borrow and increase deficit, China also announces issuance of special government bonds today to bolster capitalization of its largest state-owned banks, Printer is coming

Fitch downgrades France's credit rating to negative due to higher deficits, government debt expected to rise to 118.5% of GDP by 2028

FTSE Russell: Greek equities on track for upgrade to developed markets, FTSE Russell to provide update as part of March 2025 review, Greek equity index up 53% since start of 2023

Porsche sells 7% fewer cars due to China slump by -29%, -5% North America but +7% Germany & Europe, -21% % 1-year performance

Deutsche Telekom increases dividend and launches share buyback program for € 2 bn, highest share price in 23 years, +33% 1-year performance

Commerzbank reaches highest share price since the euro crisis in 2011, +61% 1-year performance

Bayer with new lawsuit in the USA over PCBs, share price -7%, -41% 1-year performance

German industrial order intake fell unexpectedly sharply by 5.8% in August compared to the previous month

E.on CEO expects energy prices to rise in the long term thanks to higher taxes & levies and the world's stupidest energy policy

The Ampel expects the economy to shrink for the second year in a row, revising its GDP forecast for 2024 from +0.3% to -0.2%, only the second consecutive year of shrinking GDP since the fall of communism in 1990

After the pension insurance, the German long-term care insurance is also bankrupt, as recipients of citizens' benefits are not paying in and society is ageing, Lauterbach therefore wants to increase the monthly contribution for long-term care for all workers, so soon less net from gross again

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