FrontRow · Aug 17, 2026
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Oil producer Vista Energy jumped in premarket on Monday after it was revealed that billionaire Peter Thiel's hedge fund had acquired a stake in the Argentine company. Thiel Macro LLC reported that it owned almost 1.2 million American Depository Shares of Vista Energy, worth about $76 million, as of the second quarter ending June 30, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filing published on Friday. This was Thiel's fund's second-largest disclosed position after Amazon, of which Thiel Macro owned 495,000 shares valued at about $118 million. It also held sizeable stakes in several U.S. firms in the energy and power sector. Six of the fund's seven new positions disclosed in the filing are in energy or utility companies. This includes American Electric Power, DTE Energy, First Energy, CMS Energy, Vistra, and X-Energy, according to the filing.
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