Bill Ackman's 7-Stock Portfolio Is Quietly Beating the Market. James Brumley, The Motley Fool Thu, August 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM GMT+2 4 min read NVDA ^GSPC PSH.L PS Surprisingly enough, most hedge funds habitually underperform the broad market. That's what makes any of them that reliably beat the S&P 500 of such interest.
And that's what makes Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management (NYSE: PS) so interesting right now. Although it lagged early this year, it has outperformed -- albeit unevenly -- the broad market since its launch in 2004. Moreover, its flagship fund Pershing Square Holdings' (OTC: PSHZF) positions are leading the marketwide bullish charge again right now.
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Continue » Even more incredible is that rather than diversifying this portfolio, a mere seven stocks account for 98% of the fund's total value. Here's a rundown of those seven. Ackman's seven Just because Ackman likes them doesn't necessarily mean they're all right for your portfolio.
He and Pershing's investors are accustomed to inconsistent performance. You may not be able to afford such uncertainty and prolonged dry spells from your portfolio. Still, there's nothing wrong with poaching an idea or two from his picks if they make sense for you.
Company % of Portfolio $Value Entry Date Brookfield Corp. (NYSE: BN) 17.6% $2.4 billion Q2-2024 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) 17.4% $2.4 billion Q2-2025 Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) 15.7% $2.2 billion Q1-2025 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) 15.3% $2.1 billion Q1-2026 Restaurant Brands Intl. (NYSE: QSR) 12.2% $2.1 billion Q4-2014 Howard Hughes Holdings (NYSE: HHH) 12.7% $1.8 billion Q4-2025 Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) 11.1% $1.5 billion Q3-2023 Data sources: Hedge Follow, Value Insider. Microsoft is arguably the proverbial pick-of-the-litter right now, since it may well have hit bottom after a sizable sell-off from last August's peak. As Ackman himself recently explained in a post on X in May, this pullback dragged MSFT shares down to a "compelling valuation" that didn't reflect the true value of Microsoft's cloud business or its office-productivity software.
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