Not many years ago, few institutional investors would think of not including Apple in their portfolio, but a lot has changed. In fact, Microsoft has come back into favor again, while Apple has fallen out of favor, based on the latest list of the most crowded stocks from UBS.
Apple and Microsoft Switched Places
UBS calculates the most overweight and underweight positions based on institutional ownership data from FactSet by adding “up all the holdings in dollar value across all the active managers” and then calculating the weights of stocks in the active trading portfolio. The firm then compares their weights with the relevant equity index benchmark to estimate the active weight of each stock.