Cathie Wood Has $1.99b In Just 3 Stocks

Cathie Wood's name has become synonymous with "disruptive innovation." She has decades of experience with investing and launched ARK Invest in 2014 so that everyday investors could ride transformational trends. She has exposure to AI, electric vehicles, genomic medicine, and blockchain. ARK believes these industries and the leading companies of each will redesign the global economy.

Her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) distills that vision into a single, actively managed portfolio. As of today, the fund holds roughly $8.27 billion in assets, and it is up over 44% year to date, a sharp rebound after the volatility of recent years. Driving the surge are a handful of high-conviction bets.

The slideshow that follows introduces Wood, unpacks ARKK's strategy and performance, then spotlights the ETF's three most prominent positions, before diving deeper into why #1 tops the list.

This slideshow was updated on November 11, 2025, to reflect the most recent data.

Cathie Wood is the founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer of ARK Invest. After decades on Wall Street, she launched ARK in 2014 to give everyday investors access to companies remaking the global economy, from autonomous cars to gene editing.

Wood spent 18 years at Jennison Associates and later ran global thematic strategies at AllianceBernstein before striking out on her own. She registered ARK with the SEC in January 2014, determined to back "disruptive innovation" themes other firms ignored.

ARK analysts look across traditional sector lines to spot technologies changing how the world works-artificial intelligence, genomic medicine, next-gen cloud, and digital wallets-then build high conviction, actively managed portfolios around those ideas.

ARKK is the firm's bellwether exchange-traded fund. It aims for long-term growth by holding 30-50 names tied to disruptive tech. The fund trades on the NYSE under the ticker ARKK.

• Net assets: about $8.27 billion as of November 11, 2025
• YTD return 2025: +44%, handily topping the S&P 500
• 1y return: +41.68%
• Typical number of holdings: 30-50
• Expense ratio: 0.75%, or $75 per $10,000

ARKK favors companies with visionary leaders, strong intellectual property, and large, fast-growing addressable markets. Analysts build five-year models and only invest when they believe a name could compound at a 15% annual rate or better.

• Largest U.S.-regulated crypto exchange
• Q3 2025 revenue at $1.9 billion
• The $489.9 million stake constitutes 5.96% of ARKK
• Prime beneficiary of Bitcoin's climb past $100,000 and friendlier regulation

• Streaming pioneer with ~90 million streaming households
• Earns revenue from devices, advertising, and its growing Roku Channel
• Total net revenue topped $1.2 billion in Q3 2025
• Stake equals about $499.3 million, or 6.07% of ARKK
• Beneficiary of the cord-cutting shift and connected TV ad boom

• The US EV leader delivered over 497,000 vehicles just in Q3 2025
• Diversifying into energy storage, AI, and an expanding robotaxi network
• Approx. $1 billion position, 12.56% of the fund
• Still viewed by ARK as a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity over time

Tesla is a well-known electric vehicle manufacturer. It dominates the U.S. EV market and has shown signs of a recovery after earlier pitfalls. The company is pivoting aggressively towards AI and robotics, with Elon Musk promising an enormous robot army that can do people's chores.

Tesla is betting big on AI and robotics, and the thesis is that once Optimus robots are successfully mass-produced, they can become the backbone for households. This will also give the company colossal pricing power, perhaps making it the biggest company. But again, a lot has to go right for this to transpire.

Cathie Wood's conviction portfolio lives and dies by a handful of disruptive leaders. Tesla, Roku, and Coinbase now account for 24.59% of ARKK. If their innovations play out, upside could be dramatic; if they stumble, the fund's returns will follow suit.