Bill Gates Has $34 Billion Invested in Just 5 Stocks

By Travis Hoium – Dec 22, 2023 at 7:00AM

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Following successful investors can give insights to where they see opportunity and Bill Gates has some interesting thoughts on where to put money.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has a whopping $39 billion invested in the stock market, and a vast majority of those funds are in just a few stocks. Some of that is because of donations, but the fund is also buying some interesting industrial stocks.

In this video, Travis Hoium covers the foundation's holdings and how the portfolio came to be what it is.

*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Dec. 19, 2023. The video was published on Dec. 19, 2023.

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