Posted on 03/01/2021 8:14:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Warren Buffett’s famed stock portfolio has grown to a market value of $281.17 billion at the end of 2020, with a cumulative actual price for the entire portfolio of $108.62 billion.
Last year, Berkshire earned $4.9 billion in realized capital gains and $26.7 billion in net unrealized gains from its stock holdings.
In Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) shareholders, the renowned stock picker shared the 15 common stocks that had the largest market value at the end of 2020.
Berkshire owns large stakes in companies like AbbVie (ABBV), American Express (AXP), Apple (AAPL), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), BYD Co., Charter Communications (CHTR), Coca-Cola (KO), Chevron (CVX), General Motors (GM), Itochu, Merck (MRK), Moody's Corp (MCO), U.S. Bancorp (USB), and Verizon (VZ). (Yahoo Finance is owned by Verizon.)
Buffett excluded Kraft-Heinz (KHC) from the list of top 15 holdings because it's held using a different accounting method. Berkshire owns 325,442,152 sharers, or 26.6% of the outstanding stock, in the cheese and ketchup manufacturer. He noted that the GAAP figure for Kraft-Heinz was $13.3 billion on Dec. 31, while the market value on the date was $11.3 billion.
Some of the investments have been huge home runs. For example, Berkshire’s cost to purchase 151.61 million shares of American Express was $1.28 billion, and that investment was worth $18.33 billion at year-end. Berkshire’s $31 billion investment in 907.56 million Apple shares was worth $120.4 billion at the end of 2020, while its $232 million investment in 225 million shares of Chinese electric bus-maker BYD was worth $5.89 billion.
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Where does the BNSF stand?
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (railway).
I think it is a wholly owned subsidiary of BH, so it wouldn’t show up on lists like this. This only shows his holdings in publicly traded corporations.
Sorry. Misread that as “what does it stand for.” It’s a private holding, no? This list is Berkshire’s private holdings.
Yes. It’s privately owned, 100% by BH.
So, he’s under no obligation to state that.
He may own it himself, as a private interest. If so, he’s definitely under no obligation to release that.
“Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway purchased 77.4% of BNSF shares for $100 each on November 2, 2009. Berkshire Hathaway already owned 22.6% of the company, so the acquisition gave it total ownership of BNSF.
The purchase had a value of about $44 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Warren Buffett’s career. The transaction also meant that Berkshire Hathaway purchased $10 billion of BNSF’s outstanding debt.”
Thanks, I did not know that.
I still think rail cars tend to just sit around most of the time.
Except the ones hauling oil from Canada to Texas that would have flowed thru the Keystone pipeline. Follow the money.
Let’s all go out and buy a portfolio of Warren Buffet’s favorite stocks. The prices of the stocks will all go up, because everyone wants to be rich like Warren Buffet. Then Warren Buffet will sell all his shares and make a killing and everyone who bought their stocks because they wanted to be rich like Warren Buffet will lose money, because nobody wants those stocks any more.
There’s a lot of BNSF unit grain trains running through Montana.
And a fair amount of unit container trains east bound.
Where does the BNSF stand?
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Stands pretty good now that he’s managed to have the Regime cancel fracking
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