One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying

As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in investing gurus who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks.

While doing this research we’ve also uncovered a number of common stocks that investing gurus have recently bought, or continuing to hold in their portfolios, according to their latest 13f’s. So we’re now providing a new weekly feature article called ‘One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying’. This week we’ll take a look at:

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN)

Amazon is a leading online retailer and one of the highest-grossing e-commerce aggregators, with $386 billion in net sales and approximately $578 billion in estimated physical/digital online gross merchandise volume in 2021. Retail-related revenue represents approximately 80% of the total, followed by Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (10%-15%), advertising services (5%), and other. International segments constitute 25%-30% of Amazon’s non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

A quick look at the price chart below for the company shows us that the stock is down 5.69% in the past twelve months.

AMZN data by YCharts

Superinvestors who recently bought, or continue to hold the stock, according to their latest 13Fs include:

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Ken Griffin – 5,105,216

David Tepper – 3,162,500

Tom Gayner – 2,018,860

Louis Bacon – 1,666,531

George Soros – 769,061

Jonathon Soros – 540,000

Wally Weitz – 430,000

Mario Gabelli – 139,245

Paul Tudor Jones – 131,252