2026 · Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd.
Pershing Square Holdings 2025 Annual Report (incl. Letter to Shareholders)
Having recently trimmed and sold other holdings, we held sufficient cash to move quickly and invest in a business we have long admired that has experienced a significant decline in its share price in recent months due to near-term concerns, which we do not believe will impact the longer-term Meta story. Current Equity Positions: Alphabet (“Google”) Alphabet, the parent company of Google, delivered strong business performance in 2025, highlighting its unique ability to leverage core strengths in data, distribution, infrastructure, and research expertise to successfully capitalize on its vast AI potential. AI is having a profoundly transformative impact on the company’s core advertising platform. Google’s unrivaled digital “real estate” and consumer mindshare allow for the deployment of AI products at a massive scale. In Search, this is most evident in the global roll-out of AI Overviews. Now reaching more than two billion users in more than 200 countries, AI Overviews is the world’s most widely used AI product by a significant margin. Notably, its introduction has accelerated query growth in Search, with the most pronounced effects seen among younger demographics. Similarly, in YouTube, Google’s focus on multi-modal AI, specifically image and video generation, has driven material improvements to recommendation algorithms and creator tools.