Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Inc., attends his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2026.
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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has built a position in Microsoft, the billionaire hedge fund manager said Friday in a post on X.
“As two of the largest forces in equity markets — growing index ownership and increasing amounts of capital controlled by extremely short-term-oriented, leveraged, volatility-intolerant investors — converge, we have found occasional opportunities to acquire some of the most dominant long-term compounding franchises at attractive valuations,” the post said. “In our 13F which we will file later today, we will disclose a new position in Microsoft, a company we have followed for many years now offered at a highly compelling valuation.”
While Ackman didn’t note the size of his stake in the tech giant, he called it a “core holding.”
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