In the depot of star investor Michael Burry, one stone on the other rarely remains. Even in the first quarter of 2025, he almost completely realigned his investments – with a special focus.
Investor Michael Burry, who gained a broader awareness, especially through the film “The Big Short” from 2015, apparently adapts to a market crash in the tech area.
As usual, he threw almost all previous participations from his portfolio in the first quarter of the current year and separated from around 150,000 alibaba shares, 125,000 Baidu papers, 300,000 share certificates from JD.com and several holdings from the health sector. Instead of relying on other shares as usual, the investor and his hedge fund Scion Asset Management entered into numerous short bets. Especially with the Chinese internet companies, in which he was still involved in the fourth quarter of 2024, he now covered himself with put options on a large scale. But by far the largest position in his custody account was a short bet on a real US sword weight from the tech industry in the first annual quarter.
Overall, Burry’s depot was only seven positions at the end of the first annual quarter – six of which bet on falling courses. Only one stock position from the previous quarter also remained in Q1 and was even vigorously expanded. The value of the entire portfolio of Scion Asset Management was around $ 199.23 million. Since the assets managed thus exceeds the threshold of $ 100 million, Burry-like other institutional investors-must also disclose its investments quarterly via the 13F form compared to the US stock exchange regulator.
The following ranking lists all of its investments in the first quarter of 2025 – staggered according to their percentage of Burry’s overall depot. Status of the data is March 31, 2025, they were published on May 15, 2025.
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Institutional investors with an administrated assets of more than $ 100 million are obliged to report their investments quarterly using the 13F form in the US stock exchange regulator SEC. This also includes the hedge fund Scion Asset Management, which is directed by Michael Burry. Burry had achieved some celebrity as a short investor in 2015, especially through the film “The Big Short” – and once again lived up to this reputation in the latest annual quarter. In the current 13-F form of his hedge fund, assets of $ 199.23 million are stated, which is why he also has to disclose his investments. As usual, the portfolio of Scion Asset Management showed a lot of movement again in the past quarter. In the following ranking, all of his investments are listed according to their percentage portfolio share. The data of the data is March 31, 2025.
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7th place: Baidu (put)
Michael Burry’s smallest investment at the end of the first quarter of 2025 was a bet on falling courses at the Chinese Internet group Baidu.com. As of the deadline on March 31, 2025, PUT options were on 100,000 Baidu shares-i.e. short bets on the share certificate-with a total value of around $ 9.20 million in his depot, which he had acquired in the reporting period. At the end of the quarter, 4.62 percent of the total portfolio value consisted of bet against the internet giant from China.
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6th place: Trip Com Group (put)
Also in the first quarter of 2025, Puts were represented in the Burry depot on 200,000 shares of Trip Com Group, a Chinese travel service provider. As of the deadline on March 31, 2025, they had a value of around $ 12.72 million and thus came to a share of 6.38 percent in the total depot.
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5th place: Estée Lauder
The only “old” investment in which Michael Burry held in the first quarter of 2025 was his participation in the Estée Lauder cosmetics group. The investor doubled the investment, which he had only received in the previous quarter, even in the reporting period by buying 100,000 further proportions and thus held 200,000 Estée Lauder papers at the end of the quarter. They had a value of around $ 13.20 million on the cut-off date and thus accounted for 6.63 percent on the portfolio of the hedge fund. In the ranking, the participation, which is the only bury investment in Q1, did not slip a put option, but a place in fifth place.
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4th place: jd.com (put)
At the Chinese Internet Group JD.com, Burry again relied on falling courses and in the first annual quarter brought Puts to 400,000 company shares in his depot. With a value of around $ 16.45 million, they received a share of 8.26 percent in its overall depot at the end of the quarter.
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3rd place: Pinduoduo (put)
Put options on the Chinese online trading place Pinduoduo (PDD) are also a new investment by Michael Burry in the first quarter of 2025. Scion asset management acquired Puts to 200,000 PDD shares with a total value of $ 23.67 million. As of the cut -off date, these came to a share of 11.88 percent of the total depot.
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2nd place: Alibaba (put)
After Alibaba shares were the largest investment by Michael Burry in the previous quarter, the star investor in the first quarter of 2025 also set falling courses here instead. In the reporting period, he sold all Alibaba shares and instead covered Puts on the Chinese Amazon rival. As of the cut-off date, PUT options on 200,000 alibaba shares worth around $ 26.45 million were in the burrry hedge fund depot. With a share of 13.27 percent, they ended up in second place.
Source: sec.gov, picture: Alibaba
1st place: nvidia (put)
The largest investment by Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management in the first quarter of 2025 was also a new bet on falling courses – with AI giant Nvidia. The investor brought Puts into his depot at 900,000 Nvidia shares. With a total value of around $ 97.54 million, this position made a whopping 48.96 percent of its total investments.
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