Cathie Wood's Ark Invest resumes Coinbase share sales, offloads $2.7 million worth of COIN

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  • Ark Invest offloaded another 12,077 Coinbase shares on Wednesday — worth $2.7 million — as the investment firm rebalanced its fund weightings.
  • Coinbase shares closed at $224.26 on July 31, up 30% year-to-date.

Ark Invest offloaded 12,077 Coinbase shares — worth $2.7 million — from its Next Generation Internet exchange-traded fund (ARKW) on Wednesday.

It’s the first time the Cathie Wood-led investment firm has sold Coinbase shares since it offloaded $4.3 million worth of COIN on July 19. Ark’s investment strategy generally aims to avoid individual holdings taking up more than 10% of an ETF’s portfolio. This is to maintain diversification within its funds — meaning it is likely to continue rebalancing its weightings if COIN’s value rises relative to Ark's other holdings in the fund.

According to the firm’s latest disclosures, COIN is now the fourth-largest holding within its ARKW ETF, with a weighting of 7.3% as of Aug 1, behind Ark’s own spot Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), Tesla and Roku shares with 11%, 10% and 8.4% weightings, respectively. ARKW’s Coinbase holdings have a current market value of $102.4 million. Overall, ARKW is up around 33% over the past year.

Coinbase’s stock traded for $224.36 at market close on Wednesday, trading flat for the day but up nearly 30% year-to-date, according to TradingView. However, COIN remains 35% below its prior all-time high of $342.98, set in November 2021.

COIN/USD price chart. Image: TradingView.

Coinbase is currently valued at $41.7 billion, according to The Block’s data dashboard.

Last week, Ark sold 118,209 shares of its own ARKB spot Bitcoin ETF from the same ARKW fund, worth $7.8 million.


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