The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Buffett has sold a significant portion of his stake in Apple this year, including a notable reduction of nearly half recently, it's still Berkshire's top individual stock holding by far. However, the iPhone maker has paid and increased its dividend every year since 2012. It's also one of the conglomerate's biggest positions.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

By investing in its partners -- like Pinduoduo and Meituan -- the tech conglomerate can participate in emerging industries like e-commerce and food delivery. Over the years, Tencent has operated like a stock investor, buying up small stakes in growth companies like Snap and Tesla. The idea is simple. What does it mean for investors?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The company last requested confidentiality when building stakes in Chevron and Verizon Communications in 2020. However, in its third-quarter earnings report, the conglomerate reported that its cost basis for investments in banks, insurance, and finance stocks increased by about $1.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2023

Investors are smart to file through the conglomerate's public equities portfolio to find new ideas. Today, the card giant represents a stake worth $2 billion in Berkshire's portfolio. Secular trends Between fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2022, Visa's revenue increased at a compound annual rate of 11%, with net income rising at a 22% clip.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 27, 2024

Johnson & Johnson Another magnificent stock being added to Warren Buffett's secret portfolio -- 2,225 shares purchased in the March-ended quarter -- is healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). J&J, as Johnson & Johnson is more commonly known, was once one of Berkshire's largest holdings.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They're just like a whole conglomeration of brands, similar with PepsiCo , with all of the Frito-Lay stuff. You wouldn't even really think about this, but they acquired Pringles back in 2012. Ricky Mulvey: The thing that's also key about this is that Endeavor had no ownership stake in the company at that time. I love them.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

billion in NetCo, Italy's largest fixed telecoms network; and the sale of its stake in the Hohe See and Albatros wind farms off the shores of Germany for $374 million in proceeds. Invested C$534 million in KPN, bringing our ownership stake to 2.9%. Japan, increasing our ownership stake to 3%. stake in Pushpay Holdings Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2025

It holds stakes in 46 stocks and exchange-traded funds that are worth $296.8 Investors often follow the conglomerate's portfolio for investment ideas from Buffett himself, but it actually reduced its stakes in many of its top stocks -- including Apple and Bank of America -- over the past year. billion stake in the company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 25, 2024

sold $133 billion worth of stock from the portfolio he manages for the conglomerate. of Occidental, but Buffett has said he has no plans of taking a majority stake in the business. The conglomerate previously owned nearly $1 billion worth of the company but sold off the position between 2020 and 2021. Not only does it own 28.2%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2025

Warren Buffett is still bullish Last but not least, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway still holds a $41 billion stake in American Express. It remains the conglomerate's second largest single investment after Apple and its holding gives Berkshire a 21.6% stake in the company. That massive investment accounts for 14.3%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The conglomerate initiated a new position in Capital One in the first quarter of 2023. This move increased the hedge fund's stake by nearly 483%. Berkshire sold over 1 million shares of the telecommunications company, reducing its stake by 26.3%. Mastercard Buffett has owned a position in Mastercard (NYSE: MA) since 2012.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

And in our on-premises server business, we expect revenue to decline in the low to mid-single digits on a prior year comparable that benefited from purchasing ahead of Windows Server 2012 end of support. We feel very, very good about sort of our investment stake in OpenAI. We're not a conglomerate here.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

COHAN: — warrants in companies, equity stakes and companies, you know, and if you have those assets and you can monetize them at some point during the quarter to achieve what you told Wall Street research analysts you’re going to achieve. So — RITHOLTZ: This is after The Apprentice, after the 2012 election.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : 00:02:14 [Speaker Changed] Did you do for the campaign in oh eight, and then what’d you do in 2012? When you think of every single aspect of industry steel making fertilizer that, you know, $10 trillion of EBITDA will be at stake in this turnover. I was 24 years old, cocky, and a little bit insane.

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