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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Owns Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms. Here's the Best Buy of the Bunch in August.

Ackman isn't leaving this opportunity on the table, and retail investors shouldn't, either.

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Owns Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms. Here's the Best Buy of the Bunch in August.

Published August 3, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman runs Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund that owns only about eight to 12 holdings at any given time. It's mostly focused on core U.S.-based, large-cap consumer-facing companies, but it currently holds three artificial intelligence (AI) stocks: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META).

These are all fairly new positions: The Amazon position is about a year old, the Meta position started at the end of 2025, and the Microsoft position was opened in early 2026. The fund previously held shares of Alphabet, but it closed out its position in the first quarter of 2026. At the time, Ackman said he wasn't betting against Google, but he needed capital to buy Microsoft, which he thought was a better deal.

Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management. Image source: Getty Images.

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