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This Stock With Exposure To Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Is Now Down 31% This Year And Cathie Wood Just Added Another $8.2M Worth Of Shares

Published 24/02/2022, 11:40
Updated 24/02/2022, 12:11
© Reuters.  This Stock With Exposure To Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Is Now Down 31% This Year And Cathie Wood Just Added Another $8.2M Worth Of Shares

© Reuters. This Stock With Exposure To Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Is Now Down 31% This Year And Cathie Wood Just Added Another $8.2M Worth Of Shares

Cathie Wood-led Ark Investment Management on Wednesday loaded up more shares in Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) Global Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) — a cryptocurrency exchange that enables its users to trade in cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE).

What Happened: The popular money manager bought 47,464 shares of Coinbase, estimated to be worth $8.2 million, for the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (NYSE: ARKW).

Ark Invest has $943.87 million worth of Coinbase shares across all its ETFs as of Wednesday. The COIN stock is the third-largest investment for Ark across all its funds.

See Also: How To Buy Coinbase (COIN) Stock

Why It Matters: Ark Invest has been steadily raising its exposure in cryptocurrency-linked fintech stocks including Coinbase, Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:HOOD) and Jack Dorsey-led Block Inc. (NYSE: SQ).

Coinbase’s stock extended losses to a fifth straight day on Wednesday. The stock is down 31.6% year-to-date.

The company recently said it plans to add about 2,000 employees this year as it sees “enormous product opportunities” ahead for the future of Web 3.0 technologies.

Price Action: Coinbase shares closed 2.3% lower in Wednesday’s trading at $172.74 and further fell almost 1.5% in the after-hours session to $170.20.

Read Next: Is KFC Really Accepting Dogecoin Now?

Photo: By Ajay Suresh on Flickr

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