Warren Buffett's stock picks aren't what they used to be. The Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) equity portfolio has changed dramatically in the past few years.
Although old-guard favorites such as American Express (AXP) and Coca-Cola (KO) still form the core of the portfolio, Buffett & Co. have taken a shine to names such as Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN) and, most recently, Alphabet (GOOGL).
One thing that hasn't changed, however, is Buffett's preference for maintaining a highly concentrated portfolio.
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Excluding the company's Japanese brokerage stocks and other overseas equities, Apple alone accounts for more than a fifth of Berkshire's stock portfolio, according to data from WhaleWisdom. (That's down from more than 40% at its peak.)
Furthermore, Berkshire's top five U.S. equity holdings comprise about 70% of its portfolio value, while the top 10 account for 87%.
As Buffett likes to say, diversification is for those who don't know what they're doing.
Note that Buffett handles the largest positions in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.
Buffett says his co-managers — Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, who is CEO of Geico — act independently. They're thought to manage about 10% of the portfolio. Buffettologists generally assume Berkshire's smaller buys and sells are the work of these colleagues.
This will likely change when Buffett retires as CEO of his holding company at year's end, and Greg Abel, head of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, steps into the role.
Regardless, whether we're talking about Berkshire's biggest bets or the scores of stocks it maintains at the margins, Buffett's focus shifted after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buffett owned airline stocks at the start of 2020; now he holds none. Banks were aces among Buffett stocks to begin 2020; Berkshire soon kicked most of them to the curb.
It seems like only yesterday that Buffett was an enthusiastic buyer of select pharmaceutical names. Today, most of those positions have been closed out, too.
If you want to know which stocks Warren Buffett is buying and selling, look no further than the Berkshire Hathaway's holdings.
Price, share totals and other data as of September 30, 2025. Sources: Berkshire Hathaway's SEC Form 13F filed November 14, 2025, for the reporting period ended September 30, 2025; and WhaleWisdom.
The Berkshire Hathaway portfolio
Company | Shares held | Holding value | Percent of portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|
Apple (AAPL) | 238,212,764 | $60,656,116,097 | 22.69% |
American Express (AXP) | 151,610,700 | $50,359,010,112 | 18.84% |
Bank of America (BAC) | 568,070,012 | $29,306,731,919 | 10.96% |
Coca-Cola (KO) | 400,000,000 | $26,528,000,000 | 9.92% |
Chevron (CVX) | 122,064,792 | $18,955,441,549 | 7.09% |
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) | 264,941,431 | $12,518,482,615 | 4.68% |
Moody's (MCO) | 24,669,778 | $11,754,655,821 | 4.40% |
Chubb (CB) | 31,332,895 | $8,843,709,614 | 3.31% |
Kraft Heinz (KHC) | 325,634,818 | $8,479,530,661 | 3.17% |
Alphabet (GOOGL) | 17,846,142 | $4,338,397,121 | 1.62% |
Kroger (KR) | 50,000,000 | $3,370,500,001 | 1.26% |
Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) | 124,807,117 | $2,904,885,649 | 1.09% |
Visa (V) | 8,297,460 | $2,832,586,895 | 1.06% |
VeriSign (VRSN) | 8,989,880 | $2,513,300,752 | 0.94% |
Mastercard (MA) | 3,986,648 | $2,267,645,249 | 0.85% |
Amazon.com (AMZN) | 10,000,000 | $2,195,700,000 | 0.82% |
Constellation Brands (STZ) | 13,400,000 | $1,804,578,000 | 0.68% |
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) | 5,039,564 | $1,740,161,449 | 0.65% |
Capital One Financial (COF) | 7,150,000 | $1,519,947,000 | 0.57% |
Aon (AON) | 4,100,000 | $1,461,978,000 | 0.55% |
Domino's Pizza (DPZ) | 2,981,945 | $1,287,335,476 | 0.48% |
Ally Financial (ALLY) | 29,000,000 | $1,136,800,000 | 0.43% |
Pool (POOL) | 3,458,885 | $1,072,496,472 | 0.40% |
Liberty Media (LLYVK) | 10,917,661 | $1,058,685,587 | 0.40% |
Lennar (LEN) | 7,050,950 | $888,701,738 | 0.33% |
Nucor (NUE) | 6,407,749 | $867,801,447 | 0.32% |
Louisiana Pacific (LPX) | 5,664,793 | $503,260,211 | 0.19% |
Liberty Media (LLYVA) | 4,986,588 | $470,235,248 | 0.18% |
Heico (HEI) | 1,294,612 | $328,947,963 | 0.12% |
Formula One Group (FWONK) | 3,018,555 | $315,288,070 | 0.12% |
Charter Communications (CHTR) | 1,060,882 | $291,853,943 | 0.11% |
Lamar Advertising (LAMR) | 1,202,110 | $147,162,306 | 0.06% |
Allegion (ALLE) | 780,133 | $138,356,588 | 0.05% |
NVR (NVR) | 11,112 | $89,281,142 | 0.03% |
Jefferies (JEF) | 433,558 | $28,363,364 | 0.01% |
Liberty Latin America Class A (LILA) | 2,630,792 | $21,809,266 | 0.01% |
Lennar Class B (LEN.B) | 180,980 | $21,715,790 | 0.01% |
Diageo (DEO) | 227,750 | $21,734,183 | 0.01% |
Liberty Latin America Class C (LILAK) | 1,284,020 | $10,837,129 | less than 0.01% |
Atlanta Braves Holdings (BATRK) | 223,645 | $9,301,396 | less than 0.01% |
Stocks Warren Buffett is buying
Berkshire has a massive stake in Apple and a modest position in Amazon.com, but otherwise it hasn't been a big fan of the Magnificent 7. So it's something of a surprise that the holding company initiated a sizable stake in Alphabet.
Berkshire bought 17.8 million shares in GOOGL worth $4.3 billion as of the end of Q3. With a weight of 1.6%, the tech giant is now Berkshire's 10th-largest holding. While that seems significant, keep in mind that the position is still worth roughly half of No. 9 holding Kraft Heinz (KHC), which accounts for more than 3% of the portfolio.
GOOGL stock was negative for the year-to-date until mid-July and didn't start outperforming the S&P 500 until late August. With shares now up 45% in 2025 – vs 16% for the broader market – Berkshire appears to have spied a beaten-down bargain.
Elsewhere, Berkshire made minor additions to five other smaller holdings.
The company increased its stake in Chubb (CB), which it has held since the first quarter of 2024, by almost 16%, or 4.3 million shares. With a market value of $8.8 billion as of September 30, CB is Berkshire's eighth-largest holding.
Berkshire also continued to add to its investment in Domino's Pizza (DPZ), which it initiated in the third quarter of last year. The holding company increased its stake by more than 13% and now owns nearly 3 million shares in the pizza chain worth $1.3 billion. At less than 0.5% of the portfolio, DPZ is Berkshire's 22nd-largest position.
Berkshire also once again boosted its stake in Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI), this time by 4.2%. At a bit more than 1% of the portfolio, SIRI is Berkshire's 11th-largest holding.
Lastly, Berkshire made incremental and essentially immaterial additional investments in Lamar Advertising (LAMR) and Lennar (LEN).
Stocks Warren Buffett is selling
Buffett continued to pare back Berkshire's position in Apple, which, as recently as last year, accounted for roughly 40% of its U.S. holdings. The company sold more than 41 million shares over the course of the third quarter – a 15% reduction – but Buffett has hardly lost faith in the iPhone maker.
With nearly 240 million shares worth more than $60 billion as of September 30, AAPL remains Berkshire's largest holding by far, accounting for nearly 23% of its total value.
In another reprise from previous quarters, Buffett once again sold Bank of America stock, which has been a major holding since 2017. Berkshire reduced its investment in the nation's second-largest bank by assets by another 6.2% in Q3, selling more than 37 million shares.
With 568 million shares worth more than $29 billion as of September 30, BAC is Berkshire's third-largest holding, accounting for 11% of the portfolio value.
In other sales, Berkshire continued to sell VeriSign (VRSN), cutting the position by a third, or 4.3 million shares. With a bit less than 9 million shares worth $2.5 billion, VRSN now accounts for less than 1% of Berkshire's equity portfolio.
Other stocks Berkshire continued to ease up on included Nucor (NUE) and DaVita (DVA).
Lastly, Berkshire exited its position in homebuilder D.R. Horton (DHI), a stake it initiated the previous quarter.
Berkshire's top five holdings
As noted above, Buffett has always maintained a highly concentrated portfolio. Indeed, he's said that "diversification makes very little sense for anyone who knows what they're doing."
The stocks below accounted for 70% of Berkshire's total U.S. equities portfolio value as of the end of Q3. If you want to know what's driving the bulk of the Buffett's returns, check out the names below.
Apple
Buffett has called Apple "Berkshire's third business," so it should come as no surprise that the iPhone maker routinely takes the top spot among the holding company's positions.
True, Berkshire has pared its stake in Apple in recent quarters, but Buffett has assured shareholders he adores AAPL as much as ever. BRK.B's CEO took pains to explain that the iPhone maker is still — er — the Apple of his eye.
For the record, the sales were for tax purposes. The greatest long-term investor of all time said that AAPL is "even better" than American Express or Coca-Cola, two "wonderful" businesses that Berkshire has owned since the early 1960s and late 1980s, respectively.
As Apple's sixth-largest shareholder, Berkshire's continuing interest in the iPhone maker has market-wide implications.
American Express
Buffett likes credit card companies. Berkshire owns substantial stakes in payments processors Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA), but he really loves American Express.
Buffett took his first stake in AmEx in the 1960s, and it’s still paying off a half-century later.
There's a lot to love about AmEx: Its management is strong; it's a dominant brand in the industry; and it generates copious amounts of free cash flow — the money left after essential capital expenditures are made that can be used to finance dividends and stock buybacks.
The current yield on the dividend isn't eye-catching, but it is safe and growing. The stock is only slightly more volatile than the broader market. Those are attributes that will help long-term investors sleep better at night.
Bank of America
Bank of America is Berkshire Hathaway's third-largest holding. Buffett first acquired BAC stock in Q3 2017. Berkshire is the bank's second-largest institutional shareholder.
In an April 2023 media appearance, Buffett said that he unloaded many of the holding company's bank stocks because he didn't think they were near as solid investments as they once were. As for Bank of America, he said this about the bank and its CEO:
"I like [CEO] Brian Moynihan enormously. And I just don't wanna, I don't wanna sell it," the then 92-year-old CEO told CNBC's Becky Quick.
"But I did sell banks that we'd owned for 25 or 30 years. And if they asked me why I did it, I told them — I just think the system isn't set up quite right in terms of connecting punishment to culprits on something that's important," Buffett added.
Coca-Cola
Buffett famously drank Coca-Cola for 52 years before investing in the stock.
He finally took the plunge in 1988. "We expect to hold these securities for a long time," Buffett wrote back then of his new stake in Coke in a letter to Berkshire shareholders. "In fact, when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever."
As of the end of Q3 2025, Berkshire owned 9.3% of Coca-Cola’s outstanding shares. Analysts like the stock's prospects, too. Wall Street gives KO a consensus recommendation of Buy, with strong conviction.
Chevron
Thanks to the outlook for crude oil prices, the energy sector is enjoying steady and predictable free cash flow. Chevron, the only energy name among all 30 Dow Jones stocks, is returning some of this cash to shareholders through dividends and buybacks.
Make no mistake: There are few things Buffett likes more than dividends and buybacks.
It also helps that oil is a solid hedge against inflation. With inflation still running ahead of the Federal Reserve's 2% target, commodities should remain in favor.
Berkshire's massive pile of cash, equivalents and short-term investments is much better put to use in an asset such as Chevron under such conditions.
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