{"id":486474,"date":"2026-05-15T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:04:12","slug":"institutional-investors-boosted-holdings-of-ai-infrastructure-plays-during-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486474\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional investors boosted holdings of AI infrastructure plays during first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Suzanne McGee<\/p>\n

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 15 (Reuters) – Institutional investors were eager buyers of stocks in companies whose fate hinges on the rollout and adoption of artificial intelligence<\/a> during the first quarter of 2026, \u200caccording to a Reuters overview of filings by nearly 6,000 hedge funds, pension funds, college endowments and \u200cother asset managers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n

These quarterly 13-F filings, which provide insight into how some major investors reacted to emerging opportunities \u200band new sources of risk or anxiety during the three-month period, show that more than 4,000 of them added to their existing holdings or initiated new positions in a group of nine companies that are big players in the AI infrastructure arena, including Oracle, Arista Networks and Vertiv. Only 146 of those entities sold holdings in the space, or only 2.5% of \u200cthe investors that have reported their positions to \u2060date.<\/p>\n

Major institutional investors must report any changes made to their portfolio and its composition to the SEC within 45 days of the end of each calendar quarter. The data obtained by \u2060Reuters from the SEC’s database reflect those firms that had submitted their filings as of mid-morning on Friday. The data does not capture changes to their portfolios they may have made since April 1.<\/p>\n

These institutional investors also were eager buyers of data center \u200bcompanies, a \u200bcategory that includes firms like Digital Realty, and utilities. So \u200bfar, 13-F filings reveal there were no sellers \u200cof utilities stocks during the first quarter, while nearly 3,500 filers reported net buying.<\/p>\n

The data appear to show that institutional investors are being more selective when it comes to the “Magnificent Seven” AI giants — a cohort that also includes Meta and Microsoft<\/a>, amid ongoing uncertainty during the first quarter about whether they could sustain the pace of spending on AI and their growth. Sellers outnumbered buyers by a narrow margin during the period, according to the 13-F data.<\/p>\n

Among the 143 investors who initiated \u200ca position in Palantir, another high-profile technology player, was Mubadala Capital, \u200bthe sovereign wealth fund of the UAE. It acquired a small position \u200bvalued at $9.9 million during the first quarter, according to \u200bits filing.<\/p>\n

Mubadala also initiated a position in Shopify, one of the software-as-a-service stocks slammed during \u200cthe first quarter by fears that AI will disrupt \u200btheir business models and derail \u200btheir profitability. But for a group of 20 U.S.-listed stocks in that category, Reuters found that overall, institutions were more prone to sell than to buy amidst the carnage, with 397 liquidating one or more positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 15 (Reuters) – Institutional investors were eager buyers of stocks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,12082,5527,212412,18,19,9366,17,137510,20093,82,162046],"class_list":{"0":"post-486474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asset-managers","12":"tag-data-center","13":"tag-eager-buyers","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-institutional-investors","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-providence","19":"tag-rhode-island","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116580153078513931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}