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Prediction: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Today Will Set You Up for Life

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Given enough time, shares of this buy-and-hold-minded conglomerate reliably outperform the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) even though they seemingly shouldn't. Some of the conglomerate's biggest holdings at this time still include Apple , Coca-Cola , and Chevron , although it's currently sitting on a few dozen different stocks.

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Is It Too Late to Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock?

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Some will be conglomerates and operate in a few lines of business or sectors. Berkshire Hathaway is like a conglomerate on steroids; it operates in the finance, energy, utility, transportation, retail, construction, and manufacturing sectors, among others. Viewed with that lens, there's really no good or bad time to buy the stock.

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Crypto Is the Most-Held Asset Among Gen Z and Millennial Investors: Here's What They Should Buy Next

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In October 2022, the Motley Fool surveyed 1,200 Gen Z and millennial investors to see what they were holding in their portfolios. And younger investors showed a clear preference for holding individual stocks rather than mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The results were somewhat surprising.

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This Magnificent Stock Has Made Many Millionaires, and Could Make More

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Conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway benefits from the long-term business growth that is generated from the collection of companies under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella. In this way, Berkshire Hathaway can be looked at as something similar to a mutual fund. In fact, the company even has a portfolio of stock investments.

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Think Warren Buffett Hits Home Runs Every Time? His Portfolio Tells a Different Story -- and It Can Teach You a Valuable Lesson.

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Technically, it is a conglomerate , which means that it owns a lot of different companies. Usually, conglomerates own a few businesses in similar industries. So it is quite reasonable to think of Berkshire Hathaway as something similar to a mutual fund with Warren Buffett at the helm. What does Berkshire Hathaway do?

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Warren Buffett Doesn't Own Nvidia. Here's How He's Profited From the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock's Big Gains Anyway

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Buffett's direct ways of profiting from Nvidia Although Buffett doesn't own any shares of Nvidia, Berkshire Hathaway 's portfolio includes two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that do. The conglomerate hasn't sold shares of either ETF since then. of Berkshire's total portfolio. Not entirely.

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Here's Why Berkshire Hathaway Stock Is a Buy Before Nov. 1

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To simplify, it is an enormous, sprawling conglomerate. That's actually a more descriptive statement than it seems because, in some ways, Berkshire Hathaway is more like a mutual fund than an operating company. But the real truth is that the company is the investment vehicle of Buffett.