Active Fund Managers Bet These 6 Stocks Will Trade Near All-Time Highs

Active fund managers are making large bets on six already high-performing stocks.

The Data: A post on X relayed data from Bank of America research.

Long-only active funds are overweight on the following companies relative to their weighting in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY: Microsoft Corp MSFT, NVIDIA Corp NVDA, Amazon.com Inc AMZN, Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL, Meta Platforms Inc META and Eli Lilly And Co LLY.

All of the companies mentioned above are trading at or near all-time highs following historic rallies in 2023 and 2024. NVIDIA has added over $2 trillion in market cap in the past year while the already-large Microsoft, Eli Lilly and Alphabet saw enormous gains as well.

One stock missing from the list is Apple Inc AAPL, even though the stock’s all-time high closing price was $216.67 on June 17.

Around 90% of the active funds indexed by the chart currently own Microsoft. Meta and Eli Lilly (an outlier here among technology companies) are weighted nearly twice as much among active funds than the S&P 500.

Large bets on momentum plays indicate a continued confidence that Big Tech’s rally has legs going into the remainder of 2024. Fund manager sentiment has reached relative highs in June on the back of artificial intelligence-related optimism.

Other experts have pumped the brakes on pervading bullish sentiment, describing “warning flags” pointing toward a “bubble-ish” market at risk of a substantial drawdown.

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