Cathie Wood's ARK Innovation ETF Achieves 35% Gain In November, Its Best Month Since Inception

Zinger Key Points
  • Cathie Wood's flagship fund achieves its best month since 2014, outperforming January's 27% gain.
  • Coinbase leads with an 80% surge, contributing nearly 7 percentage points.

The ARK Innovation ETF ARKK, managed by renowned investor Cathie Wood, has posted remarkable gains in November, making it the fund’s best-performing month since its launch in 2014.

The ARK Innovation ETF surged by nearly 35% in November, surpassing its performance in January 2023 when it achieved a 27% gain. The second-largest fund managed by Wood, the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF ARKF also showed a similar return as its bigger brother.

Year-to-date, Wood’s flagship fund has risen by 55%, outperforming the broader tech sector’s performance as tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ.

Chart: ARK ETF Monthly Returns And Year-To-Date Performance Vs. QQQ

Despite these impressive gains, Wood’s largest fund remains 70% below its all-time highs reached in February 2021. In contrast, the Nasdaq 100 Index is only 4% below its record peak in 2022.

The outstanding performance of tech stocks in November was driven by the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates steady for the second consecutive meeting at the beginning of the month. Market participants widely interpreted this move as signaling the end of the tightening campaign.

As U.S. inflation dynamics continued to slow down — the latest data revealed a sharper-than-expected decline in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October — investors began increasing their bets on a wave of Fed rate cuts in 2024.

CME Group’s FedWatch tool, which assesses the market-implied probabilities of future fed funds rate movements, indicates an 80% chance of a rate cut as early as May 2024. Speculators are even assigning a 59% probability of five rate cuts by December 2024.

Innovation Fund’s November Performance

The ARK Innovation Fund experienced a substantial boost in its monthly performance, driven by several key stocks. The top contributor was Coinbase Global Inc COIN, which surged by nearly 80% and alone contributed almost 7 percentage points of returns to the ARK Fund.

This surge coincided with a cryptocurrency rally, with Bitcoin BTC/USD surging above $38,000.

Here are the top 10 contributors to the fund’s impressive November performance:

Security Name (Exchange: Ticker)SectorPriceWeight in ARK1-month stock returnReturn
Contribution
Coinbase Global, Inc. Financials126.7411.33%79.06%+6.86 percentage points
Roku, Inc. ROKUCommunication Services106.919.11%89.72%+5.91pp
Block, Inc. SQFinancials64.435.99%61.38%+3.11pp
CRISPR Therapeutics AG CRSPHealth Care69.864.71%81.29%+2.88pp
UiPath Inc. PATHInformation Technology19.706.49%31.09%+2.15pp
Shopify Inc. SHOPInformation Technology73.633.51%58.62%+1.78pp
Tesla, Inc. TSLAConsumer Discretionary246.118.02%58.62%+1.73pp
DraftKings Inc. DKNGConsumer Discretionary38.133.68%43.51%+1.52pp
Twilio Inc. TWLOInformation Technology66.093.89%31.72%+1.28pp
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. ZMInformation Technology68.256.88%15.18%+1.24pp
Beam Therapeutics Inc. BEAMHealth Care28.962.32%56.55%+1.14pp

Read Also: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong On Binance’s Settlement: ‘Building A Company Offshore, Skirting Regulation, It’s Just Not Going To Work’

Photo: Courtesy Ark Invest

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