PIF cuts holding of US equities to $40.8 bln in Q2 2022

16/08/2022 Argaam Special

Logo of Public Investment Fund (PIF)


The Public Investment Fund (PIF) invested in 17 new companies in the US market during the second quarter of 2022, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., BlackRock, Amazon and Microsoft.

It reduced its holding of US equities from $43.6 billion in Q1 2022 to $40.8 billion in Q2 2022, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund raised its stake in five companies, namely Electronic Arts Inc., Air Products & Chemicals, PayPal, Meta Platforms, and Shopify.

On the other hand, the fund cut its stake in only one company, namely Visa Inc.

The following table illustrates the fund’s holding of US equities at the end of Q2 2022:

PIF Investment Details

Company

Equity by Q1 2022

(‘000 shares)

Value by Q1 2022

($ mln)

Equity by Q2 2022

(‘000 shares)

Value by Q2 2022

($ mln)

 Change

(‘000 shares)

Lucid Group

1015252.52

25787.41

1015252.52

17421.73

--

Activision Blizzard

37870.00

3033.77

37870.00

2948.56

--

SPDR Utilities Sector

32986.50

2456.18

32986.50

2313.34

--

Electronic Arts Inc

14210.00

1797.71

16011.84

1947.84

1801.84+

Uber

72840.54

2598.95

72840.54

1490.32

--

Take-Two Interactive

11414.68

1754.89

11414.68

1398.64

--

Live Nation

12565.17

1478.17

12565.17

1037.63

--

Air Products & Chemicals

727.34

181.77

2685.33

645.77

1957.99+

PayPal

910.93

105.35

7058.41

492.96

6147.48+

Meta Platforms

418.66

93.09

2940.72

474.19

2522.06+

Carnival

50830.93

1027.80

50830.93

439.69

Cummins Inc

1800.30

369.26

1800.30

348.41

--

Automatic Data Processing

1481.84

337.18

1481.84

311.25

--

MultiPlan

51250.00

239.85

51250.00

281.36

--

FedEx Corp

1127.43

260.88

1127.43

255.60

--

Visa Inc

1428.78

316.86

1101.27

216.83

(327.51)

Avery Dennison Corp

848.66

147.64

848.66

137.37

--

Alibaba

1035.68

112.68

1035.68

117.74

--

Walmart

790.24

117.68

790.24

96.08

ProLogis

814.72

131.56

814.72

95.85

--

Pinduoduo

1539.39

61.75

1539.39

95.13

--

Plug Power

5670.92

162.25

5670.92

93.97

--

NovaGold

16137.70

124.74

16137.70

77.62

--

Compute Health Acquisition

7500.00

74.25

7500.00

73.88

--

Pinterest

4052.16

99.72

4052.16

73.59

--

Ballard Power Systems

9709.90

113.02

9709.90

61.17

--

Beijing Ltd.

317.69

59.92

317.69

51.42

--

Carnival NOTE 5.750% 4/0

40000.00

83.90

40000.00

44.78

--

Shopify

125.00

84.50

1250.00

39.05 

1125.00+

Coupang Inc

2857.14

50.51

2857.14

36.43

--

Babylon

35410.79

137.75

35410.79

34.63

--

SIGNA Sports United NV

5000.00

40.00

5000.00

32.50

--

Farfetch Ltd.

3314.20

50.11

3314.20

23.73

--

Hyzon Motors

8033.48

51.33

8033.48

23.62

--

Sea Ltd

239.44

28.68

239.44

16.01

--

MultiPlan W EXP 02/13/202

2500.00

2.76

2500.00

2.75   

--

PIF’s new investments

Company

Equity

(‘000 shares)

Value

($ mln)

Adobe Systems Incorporated

1147.30

419.98

Zoom Video Communications

4697.68

507.21

Costco Wholesale Corp New

1036.58

496.81

NextEra Energy

6368.00

493.27

American Tower Corp New

1893.00

483.83

Starbucks

6313.30

482.27

Microsoft

1845.51

473.98

Alphabit 

213.00

464.18

The Home Depot

1641.98

450.35

BlackRock

741.69

451.72

Salesforce

2650.22

437.39

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

3851.05

433.67

Amazon.com

4067.65

432.03

Datadog

4498.85

428.47

Advanced Micro Devices

4702.06

359.57

Freeport-McMoRan

12895.47

377.32

Booking Holdings Inc.

213.48

373.37


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