Cathie Wood's ARK's biggest trade of the day: $20.9M of Alphabet Inc sold

It was the day's biggest move, and it came from ARKK. Plus the other trades that day and how ARK compares with the market.

Generated from ARK's own holdings data.

On 26 Oct 2026, Cathie Wood's ARK sold an estimated $20.9M of Alphabet Inc (GOOG) across ARKK. No other trade that day was bigger.

Money left the funds that day, nudging every holding shrank by roughly 7.2%. GOOG shrank 27%, far more than the rest — that difference is the actual decision.

It is part of a pattern: over the last 30 days ARK is a net seller of Alphabet Inc, $31.6M across 3 trades.

Everything ARK did on 26 Oct 2026

ARK made 7 real moves that day, once money flowing in and out of the funds is stripped out:

The bigger picture: ARK's last 30 days

Across the month, the money has gone mostly into Nvidia Corp ($81.0M), CoreWeave Inc ($74.9M), Veracyte Inc ($39.0M). The biggest sales over the same period: Advanced Micro Devices ($126.3M), Personalis Inc ($92.6M), 10X Genomics Inc ($69.6M).

Is it working?

ARKK is trailing the index this year: +6.6% versus +12.3%.

ARKK has lagged the index by 8 points over the past month (-8.7% vs -1.0%). Most of the damage came from Tempus AI Inc (-18%, 6% of the fund), Twist Bioscience Corp (-24%, 4% of the fund), Robinhood Markets Inc (-21%, 4% of the fund).

Over the past year the gap is wider: ARKK returned -6.8% against +14.4% for the S&P 500, 21 points apart.

That five-year gap — 109 points — mostly comes down to timing. Five years ago ARKK was trading close to its all-time high of Feb 2021. It then fell 81% to its low in Dec 2022, and it is still 47% below that peak today. Any comparison that starts near the top of that boom looks brutal.

How we work this out

ETFpeek is an independent research tool and is not affiliated with ARK Invest or Cathie Wood. Figures are estimates from public fund data, shown for information only — not financial advice. Past performance does not indicate future results.