- Her flagship fund ARKK is down 20% year-to-date and 71% below its all-time high.
- Despite raising her Bitcoin Price Prediction from $1 million to $1.5 million, Wood’s crypto investments have failed to reverse her funds’ losses.
Cathie Wood, once celebrated as a visionary investor, has seen her ARK Invest funds accumulate staggering losses in recent years. According to a Morningstar report, her family of funds erased an estimated $14.3 billion in shareholder value over a 10-year period, more than double the losses of the second-worst fund family.
Wood’s flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) has lost 59% of its value since 2021, when she first predicted Bitcoin would reach $1 million within nine years. Currently, the fund sits 71% below its all-time high and has shed one-fifth of its value since the beginning of 2024 alone.
Despite mounting losses, Wood doubled down on her cryptocurrency outlook, raising her Bitcoin Price prediction to $1.5 million. However, this optimism hasn’t translated to investment success. Her crypto-related investments, including stakes in Coinbase, have suffered significant declines. Analysts estimated that ARK Invest’s ETFs lost $280 million when it sold 1.42 million Coinbase shares in July 2022.
Widespread Losses Across ARK’s Fund Portfolio
Wood’s other funds have similarly struggled in 2024. The ARK Genomic Revolution ETF and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF have both declined 10% year-to-date, while the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF has fallen 14%. Even her ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF is slightly negative for the year.
Her company’s 4.3 million shares in the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF, valued at $92 million in December 2023, had declined to approximately $86 million as of Tuesday’s close. Bitcoin’s current price remains 94% below Wood’s ambitious $1.5 million projection.
From Market Darling to Investment Cautionary Tale
Wood’s dramatic reversal of fortune stands in stark contrast to her peak in May 2021, when Bloomberg Businessweek featured her on its cover as “The Believer” who was selling “a future so fantastic you’ll beg her to take your money.” The magazine, with a print circulation of 325,000, highlighted her optimistic projections for AI, healthcare, crypto, and automation technologies.
ARK Invest’s investments in technology stocks have particularly struggled amid recent market uncertainty. The firm has invested in companies including Block, SoFi, GitLab, AMD, The Trade Desk, Roku, Shopify, and PagerDuty—all of which are showing negative returns year-to-date.
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