Warren Buffett Stocks: What's Inside Berkshire Hathaway's Portfolio?
Top Warren Buffett Stocks By Size
At the end of September 2023, these were the top 10 Warren Buffett stocks by number of shares, according to its latest quarterly 13F, released on Nov. 15 last year:
- Bank of America (BAC), 1.03 billion
- Apple (AAPL), 915.6 million
- Occidental Petroleum (OXY), 453.9 million
- Coca-Cola (KO), 400 million
- Kraft Heinz (KHC), 325.6 million
- American Express (AXP), 151.6 million
- Chevron (CVX), 110.2 million
- Nu Holdings (NU), 107.1 million
- HP (HPQ), 97.9 million
- Paramount Global (PARA), 93.7 million
Berkshire Hathaway Investment Strategy
Buffett is known as a buy-and-hold investor, hanging on to stocks for years and even decades. But there has been rapid turnover lately.
In 2023, the investing legend ditched Capital One Financial (COF) just one quarter after opening a bet on the financial company.
In 2022 and 2021, Berkshire Hathaway dumped various drug and biotech stocks, not long after opening stakes in them.
In 2020, Berkshire sold all its airlines stocks amid the coronavirus hit to global air travel, shortly after buying them.
Top Buffett stocks tend to be dividend growers. Take Coca-Cola stock, which Buffett began gathering in 1988 and which has grown dividends for 61 years in a row.
Between 1965 and 2022, the widely followed Berkshire Hathaway portfolio posted a 19.8% compound annual gain, double that of the S&P 500 index, with dividends included.
Apple Stock Is No. 1 By Value
While Bank of America is the No. 1 Warren Buffett stock by number of shares, Apple is the No. 1 stock in Berkshire's portfolio by market value. That AAPL stake was worth a whopping $156.8 billion at the end of September 2023.
Apple stock now makes up half of Berkshire's total equity portfolio, up from 6% at the end of 2016. It accounts for a big chunk of the portfolio's surge in value over that period.
The Oracle of Omaha is a major institutional owner of AAPL stock, which you could call the poster child for Warren Buffett stocks due to its strong earnings, returns and management.
Warren Buffett Investment Strategy
Investor's Business Daily created a screen of stocks based on the Buffett investment strategy.
IBD generally uses a different stock-picking strategy than Warren Buffett does. But companies owned by Buffett can sometimes be found on the IBD Leaderboard and IBD 50 list of top growth stocks.
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