By Trevor Jennewine
Publication Date: 2026-01-22 08:05:00
Billionaire Peter Thiel has his entire portfolio invested in Tesla, Microsoft, and Apple.
Billionaire Peter Thiel, best known for co-founding Palantir Technologies, runs the hedge fund Thiel Macro. He sold his stake in Nvidia in the third quarter, such that his entire portfolio is now invested in three artificial intelligence stocks:
- Tesla (TSLA +4.08%) accounts for 39%.
- Microsoft (MSFT +1.53%) accounts for 34%.
- Apple (AAPL +0.24%) accounts for 27%.
Importantly, Thiel Macro outperformed the S&P 500 by 16 percentage points over the past year, which makes the hedge fund a good source of inspiration. Here’s what investors need to know about Tesla, Microsoft, and Apple.
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Tesla: 39% of Peter Thiel’s Portfolio
Tesla has lost about 5 percentage points of market share in electric cars over the past year, and the company ceded its position as the market leader to Chinese automaker BYD. But investors have largely brushed those developments aside because the investment thesis for Tesla now centers on physical artificial intelligence (AI), meaning autonomous driving and humanoid robots.
In autonomous driving, Tesla has a cost advantage in its vision-only strategy. Its full self-driving software (FSD) relies solely on cameras to navigate, rather than the expensive array of cameras, radar, and lidar used by competitors. For instance, Morgan Stanley estimates Tesla pays 10 times less to outfit its vehicles with sensors as compared to Waymo.
In autonomous…