{"id":3719,"date":"2026-05-15T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/bill-ackman-says-he-built-microsoft-position-in-first-quarter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:36","slug":"bill-ackman-says-he-built-microsoft-position-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/bill-ackman-says-he-built-microsoft-position-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ackman says he built Microsoft position in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108299276\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Inc., attends his company\u2019s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Brendan McDermid | Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Bill Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square has built a position in <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">Microsoft<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, the billionaire hedge fund manager said Friday in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As two of the largest forces in equity markets &#8212; growing index ownership and increasing amounts of capital controlled by extremely short-term-oriented, leveraged, volatility-intolerant investors &#8212; converge, we have found occasional opportunities to acquire some of the most dominant long-term compounding franchises at attractive valuations,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;In our 13F which we will file later today, we will disclose a new\u00a0 position in Microsoft, a company we have followed for many years now offered at a highly compelling valuation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Ackman didn&#8217;t note the size of his stake in the tech giant, he called it a &#8220;core holding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe <\/em><em>to CNBC PRO<\/em><em> for exclusive insights and analysis, and live business day programming from around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Inc., attends his company\u2019s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in New York City, U.S., April 29, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Bill Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square has built a position in Microsoft, the billionaire hedge fund manager said Friday in a post on X. &#8220;As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3108,746,3387,641,1493,1878],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-ackman","tag-bill","tag-built","tag-microsoft","tag-position","tag-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}