Warren Buffett's Heavy Investment in Only 4 Stocks at Berkshire Hathaway

Why Warren Buffett Has 68% of Berkshire Hathaway's $361 Billion Portfolio Invested in Only 4 Stocks

The Oracle of Omaha has good reasons for putting so much of Berkshire's money in a handful of stocks.

Buffett's big four

• Berkshire owns more than 905 million shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) worth over $152 billion. This one stock makes up a whopping 42% of Berkshire's portfolio. The percentage was even higher last year before Buffett (or one of his two investment managers) trimmed Berkshire's position in Apple a little in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) ranks as Berkshire's second-largest holding. The current value of the conglomerate's 1.03 billion shares is nearly $36.4 billion -- a little over 10% of its total portfolio.
• American Express (NYSE: AXP) trails just slightly behind Bank of America as Berkshire's No. 3 position. Buffett's company owns roughly 151.6 million shares of AmEx with a total value topping $33 billion. That's enough to comprise slightly over 9% of Berkshire's portfolio.
• The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) claims the No. 4 spot. Berkshire's 400 million shares in the food and beverage giant are worth around $23.4 billion. Coca-Cola makes up 6.5% of the conglomerate's portfolio.

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