{"id":218784,"date":"2024-03-30T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/fidelity-cuts-value-of-x-stake-implying-73-decline\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:36","slug":"fidelity-cuts-value-of-x-stake-implying-73-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/fidelity-cuts-value-of-x-stake-implying-73-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity cuts value of X stake, implying 73% decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1821095778-e1711836752971.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"articleContent\">\n<p>Fidelity\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/FBGRX:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">Blue Chip Growth Fund<\/a>\u00a0cut the value of its position in <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">X<\/a> by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/TWTR:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">Twitter Inc.<\/a>\u00a0since Elon Musk bought the social-media company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Fidelity, which gained a stake in X by helping Musk complete his $44 billion purchase in October 2022, valued the position at $5.28 million as of Feb. 29, according to a report posted Saturday listing the fund\u2019s holdings. A month earlier, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-01\/fidelity-cut-the-value-of-stake-in-musk-s-x-by-10-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">value<\/a>\u00a0was $5.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-04\/banks-stuck-with-x-debt-held-refinancing-talks-with-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">Banks Stuck With X Debt Held Refinancing Talks With Elon Musk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The overall value of the Blue Chip Growth Fund\u2019s X stake has fallen 73% since Musk\u2019s purchase, suggesting a similar drop in the value of the company because the fund hasn\u2019t disclosed any change in its position in X.<\/p>\n<p>X has been trying to lure back advertisers since Musk\u2019s chaotic takeover. Last year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-12\/musk-s-x-2023-ad-sales-projected-to-slump-to-about-2-5-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">ad sales<\/a>\u00a0were estimated to be roughly $2.5 billion, falling short of the company\u2019s $3 billion target, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelity and X didn\u2019t immediately return emails seeking comment sent outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-f923d9ed-0 dNwVje article\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\">Subscribe to the Eye on AI newsletter to stay abreast of how AI is shaping the future of business. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortune.com\/newsletters\/eye-on-ai?&amp;itm_source=fortune&amp;itm_medium=article_tout&amp;itm_campaign=eye_on_ai\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"sc-c908bf88-0 iyWINF\">Sign up<\/a> for free.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/03\/30\/fidelity-x-stake-73-decline-since-elon-musk-twitter-takeover\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Fidelity\u2019s\u00a0Blue Chip Growth Fund\u00a0cut the value of its position in X by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former\u00a0Twitter Inc.\u00a0since Elon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332492,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218784\/revisions\/332492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}