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In recent months, several funds run by billionaire investors have piled into a stock-split company trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange that has struggled this year but pays a healthy dividend. Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway has been buying shares all year. However, Berkshire is now the largest shareholder.
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billion in AUM spread across 81 companies. Over the last 18 months, Laffont and his team have shown a collective 39,663,859 shares of the world's largest publicly traded company to the door, thereby reducing Coatue's stake by 80%! Nvidia's insiders have given investors no reason to believe their company's stock is a good value.
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