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The world's best-performing mutual fund features Juul Labs as its top holding. Here are its 12 other biggest bets. (GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN)

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  • The Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund is beating out the rest of its mutual fund peers over the past 12 months, according to Kiplinger, returning 27%.
  • Juul Labs, the private e-cigarette maker, is the fund's top holding. Markets Insider has compiled some of the fund's other largest positions here to show what else the high-flying fund is betting on.
  • Watch some of the fund's other top holdings, like Alphabet , Amazon , and Apple , trade in real-time.

The largest holding in the top-performing large stock mutual fund isn't a publicly traded stock at all.

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The Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund is beating out the rest of its peers over the course of the last year, returning 27% in that time, according to Kiplinger data .

And it's betting on some widely held names that might not surprise investors: mammoths like Apple , Amazon , and Facebook that Wall Street is generally quite bullish on.

But its largest bet is on an entirely different animal. Juul Labs, the e-cigarette startup valued at $38 billion last December, comprises 5.3% of the Fidelity fund, according to its latest filing.

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Juul Labs gained attention in December after tobacco giant Altria paid $12.8 billion for a 35% stake in the company, sparking a renewed discussion over the future of the fast-growing e-cigarette industry.

Altria , which makes Marlboro cigarettes, said earlier this year that Juul Labs recorded $1 billion in revenue in 2018, up from $200 million a year earlier. Since Juul is a private company, investors can't look at its financials in the same way they can a public one.

Its weighting in the high-performing Fidelity fund is slightly larger than the next few main holdings Alphabet's Class C shares (4.8%) followed by Microsoft and Amazon shares (both at 4.6%), and Amazon shares (3.9%).

Kyle Weaver , the portfolio manager overseeing the fund, said in its annual report last November that stock-picking in the consumer staples sector stood out. That included "top contributor" Juul Labs.

"Sales of the company's e-cigarette devices and pods increased significantly the past 12 months, leading to a higher valuation," Weaver said.

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Still, he added: "The company and the industry face a number of social and public policy concerns."

Other classes of Juul Labs stock are included in the fund as well, but at far smaller weightings. As of the fund's latest monthly report, on January 31, it contained 208 components.

Here's a snapshot of the fund's top holdings, along with their performance in the year through January 31, 2019 when Fidelity last detailed the fund's positions in its monthly holdings report.

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Ticker: TMUS Industry group: Telecommunications Position: 990,500 Net weight: 1.625% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +7.2%

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Ticker: NVDA Industry group: Semiconductors Position: 483,030 Net weight: 1.636% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -41%

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Ticker: TSLA Industry group: Auto manufacturers Position: 247,477 Net weight: 1.79% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -14%

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Ticker: WIX Industry group: Internet content and information Position: 710,535 Net weight: 1.831% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +79%

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Ticker: CRM Industry group: Software Position: 537,300 Net weight: 1.924% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +33%

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Ticker: GOOGL Industry group: Internet content and information Position: 75,365 Net weight: 1.999% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -4.8%

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Ticker: UNH Industry group: Healthcare Position: 338,500 Net weight: 2.155% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +14%

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Ticker: FB Industry group: Internet content and information Position: 609,841 Net weight: 2.395% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -11%

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Ticker: AAPL Industry group: Consumer electronics Position: 986,150 Net weight: 3.868% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -0.6%

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Ticker: AMZN Industry group: E-commerce Position: 112,700 Net weight: 4.564% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +18%

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Ticker: MSFT Industry group: Software Position: 1,865,100 Net weight: 4.59% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: +10%

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Ticker: GOOG Industry group: Internet content and information Position: 180,175 Net weight: 4.74% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: -4.6%

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Ticker: N/A Industry group: Electronic cigarette manufacturers Position: 898,438 Net weight: 5.283% Performance from 1/31/2018 - 1/31/2019: N/A

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