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Why Apple is the most unloved stock in the world, according to fund managers

‘The market goes from loving the stock to hating the stock and is now in between’

The new Apple flagship store at Marina Bay Sands waterfront in Singapore.
The new Apple flagship store at Marina Bay Sands waterfront in Singapore. Photo: Suhaimi Abdullah//Getty Images

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is now also the most unloved stock among active fund managers — at least relative to its size.

That’s according to a note from quant analysts at UBS, the Swiss bank. They regularly analyse the holdings of over 37,000 mutual funds to find the most “underweight” and “overweight” stocks — the ones fund managers are most like to own less of, or more of, than the stock’s position in the index would suggest.

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