Cathie Wood is the founder, CEO, and CIO of Ark Investment Management.
ARK Investment Management
A rigorous stock-selection process contributed to a year of outperformance at Cathie Wood's Ark Invest.
In a quarterly webinar last Thursday, Wood described her stock-buying criteria and selling discipline.
Wood and her analysts also broke down their top-ten winning stocks during the fourth quarter.
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After a skyrocketing year that propelled
all five of Ark In vest's active ETFs to return more than 100%, tracking the daily trading activities of Ark CEO Cathie Wood and her team has become a necessity among enthusiastic retail investors and diehard fans of the firm.In fact, the continued outperformance of Ark ETFs during the fourth quarter of 2020 surprised even Wood. "We're very surprised we didn't underperform in the fourth quarter. We tend to underperform when cyclicals have their day," said Wood in an Ark quarterly webinar last Thursday.She continued:"The growth rate in earnings in cyclicals provides some competition for our growth rates. That didn't happen in the fourth quarter, that was very interesting."
