Legendary investor Warren Buffett’s capacity to determine and purchase the inventory of up-and-coming publicly traded firms has been key to the success of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B).
Together with proudly owning Geico, Dairy Queen, Duracell, Fruit of the Loom, See’s Candies and different firms, Berkshire Hathaway owns massive stakes in a few of the largest and most well-known firms.
Investments have been chosen by Buffett, also called the Oracle of Omaha, together with Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, two long-time funding managers of Berkshire Hathaway.
“We personal shares primarily based upon our expectations about their long-term enterprise efficiency and never as a result of we view them as autos for well timed market strikes,” Buffett mentioned. “Once in a while, it turns into straightforward to purchase items of fantastic companies at fantastic costs.”
Here’s a take a look at the prime 10 inventory positions owned by Berkshire Hathaway as of December 31, 2021.
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL)
Shares Owned: 907,559,761
Price: $31.1 billion
Market Worth: $161.2 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 5.6%
Financial institution of America Corp (NYSE: BAC)
Shares Owned: 1,032,852,006
Price: $14.6 billion
Market Worth: $46.0 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 12.8%
American Categorical Firm (NYSE: AXP)
Shares Owned: 151,610,700
Price: $1.3 billion
Market Worth: $24.8 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 19.9%
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO)
Shares Owned: 400,000,000
Price: $1.3 billion
Market worth: $23.7 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 9.2%
Moody’s Company (NYSE: MCO)
Shares Owned: 24,669,778
Price: $248 million
Market Worth: $9.6 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 13.3%
Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)
Shares Owned: 158,824,575
Price: $9.4 billion
Market Worth: $8.3 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 3.8%
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB)
Shares Owned: 143,456,055
Price: $5.4 billion
Market Worth: $8.1 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 9.7%
BYD Co (OTC: BYDDY)
Shares Owned: 225,000,000
Price: $232 million
Market Worth: $7.7 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 7.7%
Chevron Company (NYSE: CVX)
Shares Owned: 38,245,036
Price: $3.4 billion
Market Worth: $4.5 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 2.0%
Financial institution of New York Mellon Corp (NYSE: BK)
Shares Owned: 66,835,615
Price: $2.9 billion
Market Worth: $3.9 billion
P.c of Firm Owned: 8.3%
Different prime holdings by Berkshire Hathaway embody Basic Motors Firm (NYSE: GM), ITOCHU Company (OTC: ITOCY), Mitsubishi Company, Constitution Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Mitsui & Co.
Berkshire Hathaway owns 26.6% of Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC), which is acknowledged as fairness and never by market worth. The stake is value $13.1 billion as of December 31, 2021. Berkshire Hathaway additionally holds a $10.7 billion funding in Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) consisting of most well-liked shares and warrants.
Berkshire Hathaway posted web earnings of $89.8 billion in fiscal 2021 in comparison with web earnings of $42.5 billion in fiscal 2020.
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway had been up 29.6% in 2021 in comparison with a achieve of 28.7% for the S&P 500. Berkshire Hathaway shares have gained an annual common of 20.1% versus a achieve of 10.5% for the S&P 500 since 1965.
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