{"id":1009669,"date":"2026-05-23T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009669"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:07:57","slug":"american-billionaire-bill-ackman-on-why-he-sold-google-stocks-to-buy-microsoft-says-to-be-clear-our-sale-of-google-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/american-billionaire-bill-ackman-on-why-he-sold-google-stocks-to-buy-microsoft-says-to-be-clear-our-sale-of-google-was\/","title":{"rendered":"American billionaire Bill Ackman on why he sold Google stocks to buy Microsoft, says: To be clear, our sale of Google was\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is making it clear he hasn&#8217;t soured on Google. Over the weekend, the Pershing Square founder hopped on X to explain why his fund dumped its long-held Alphabet stake\u2014and it comes down to one thing: he needed the cash to buy Microsoft. &#8220;To be clear, our sale of $GOOG was not a bet against the company. We are very bullish long term on Alphabet. But at current valuations and in light of our finite capital base, we used $GOOG as a source of funds for $MSFT,&#8221; Ackman posted on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification followed Pershing Square&#8217;s 13F filing a day earlier, which revealed the firm had built a fresh Microsoft position while slashing its Alphabet holdings by 95%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is making it clear he hasn&#8217;t soured on Google. Over the weekend, the Pershing Square founder hopped on X to explain why his fund dumped its long-held Alphabet stake\u2014and it comes down to one thing: he needed the cash to buy Microsoft. &#8220;To be clear, our sale of $GOOG was not a bet against the company. We are very bullish long term on Alphabet. But at current valuations and in light of our finite capital base, we used $GOOG as a source of funds for $MSFT,&#8221; Ackman posted on May 16. The clarification followed Pershing Square&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009670,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009669\/revisions\/1009670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}