Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has returned to buying shares of Jack Dorsey’s monetary companies firm Block after a protracted sell-off.
ARK snapped up 262,463 shares of Dorsey’s Block (XYZ) on Monday, in line with a commerce notification seen by Cointelegraph. With the inventory closing at $73, the acquisition was price $19.2 million.
The acquisition comes with Block seeing a notable uptrend, surging 8% up to now 30 days, in accordance to TradingView.
ARK’s buy of Block follows an extended interval of promoting the shares, with the corporate dumping one other 279,047 XYZ final week for about $22 million.
ARK holds $193 million in Block
ARK’s Block share buy included transactions from its three holding funds, together with the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF).
ARKK, the biggest ARK fund by managed property, purchased 152,980 Block shares on Monday and now holds about 1.34 million XYZ shares, price $97.7 million.
With ARKK and ARKF collectively holding one other 1.3 million XYZ as of Tuesday, ARK Invest now holds a complete of two.6 million Block shares, price $193 million.
End of promoting streak?
ARK Invest’s newest Block buy is its first in months, signaling a possible shift within the firm’s funding technique.
In July alone, ARK dumped a complete of 551,834 Block shares, which at the moment are price $40.3 million, in line with ARK’s buying and selling information tracked by Cointelegraph.
With no Block share purchases seen earlier in 2025 or in 2024, the corporate’s final recognized acquisitions date again to 2023.
Block shares are down 21% from January highs
ARK’s newest funding in Block got here shortly after Block final week reported a $2.54 billion revenue within the second quarter, with year-over-year gross revenue surging 14%.
Block’s cellular fee service, Cash App, was a serious progress driver, posting $1.5 billion in gross revenue for the quarter, whereas the variety of Bitcoin (BTC) accounts reached 8 million.
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Despite Block’s sturdy monetary outcomes, its worth declined virtually 7% following the discharge of its Q2 report. Although seeing a notable rebound since May, Block shares are down 21% from the worth ranges seen in January, in line with TradingView.
Following one other sturdy quarter, Block reportedly plans to launch a complete suite of Bitcoin banking instruments designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, with the primary integrations deliberate for late 2025.
Cointelegraph approached Block to touch upon the information however had not acquired a response by publication.
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