Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Dumped Google Parent Alphabet in Favor of the Hottest Stock in the Benchmark S&P 500 Though we’re entering the heart of earnings season, don’t overlook how valuable the filing of Form 13Fs can be for investors.
These quarterly filings allow investors to track which stocks Wall Street’s smartest and most successful money managers have been buying and selling
Few, if any, billionaire investors have proven more successful over multiple decades than Duquesne Family Office’s Stanley Druckenmiller. Known for his relatively active trading style and his love for innovative tech stocks, Druckenmiller dumped shares of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG) in the first quarter, and piled into the hottest member of the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC): memory titan Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK). Duquesne’s billionaire boss rang the register on Alphabet According to Duquesne Family Office’s mid-May-filed 13F, billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller sent all 385,000 shares of Alphabet (the Class A shares, GOOGL) to the chopping block.
Profit-taking is certainly a logical explanation for Duquesne’s boss to ring the register. Alphabet stock practically doubled over the two quarters (the third and fourth quarters of 2025) during which Druckenmiller was a buyer. Alphabet’s integration of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into Google Cloud has helped reaccelerate sales growth for this high-margin platform and sent its stock catapulting higher.