Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Holds $6.9 Billion of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued its aggressive purchases of the shares of Occidental Petroleum this week, lifting its stake...

Berkshire Hathaway Bought Back About $2 Billion of Stock This Year

Text size Warren Buffett. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought back about $2 billion of stock in the first quarter through early March, Barron’s estimates. Our estimate is based ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Market Cap Climbs. It Could Soon Overtake Tesla.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently is the sixth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. Photograph by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Tesla is the fifth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. But Warren ...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Has $5 Billion Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway owns a 9.8% stake in Occidental Petroleum worth $5.1 billion after furious buying activity in s...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...

Warren Buffett’s Preferred Equity Allocation Is 100%

Warren Buffett’s preferred equity allocation is 100%, and he has adopted that strategy both personally and at Berkshire Hathaway in a way that is radically different from other companies in the insura...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts

Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stake in American Express Is Poised to Hit 20%

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway ‘s longstanding stake in American Express is set to hit the 20% threshold in the coming...

Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink

When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...

Charlie Munger Expects Index Funds to Change the World—and Not in a Good Way

Charlie Munger doesn’t think Larry Fink should be running the world. Mr. Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the rise of index ...

Warren Buffett Lieutenant Ted Weschler Makes a Big Score on Dillard’s

Text size Ted Weschler, portfolio manager for Berkshire Hathaway. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Ted Weschler, an investment lieutenant for Warren Buffett, sold out of a hugely successful invest...

Did Warren Buffett Scoop Up Stock Last Quarter? Don’t Bet on It.

Text size Warren Buffett. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Given Warren Buffett’s cautious investment approach since the pandemic began, it’s a good bet that Berkshire Hathaway ‘s quarterly filing of its eq...

Why Berkshire Hathaway’s Utility Business Is a Crown Jewel

Berkshire Hathaway Energy, a big diversified utility business 91% owned by Berkshire Hathaway , is an industry leader with a huge portfolio of renewable power and one of the most ambitious capital spe...

Alibaba Stock Is Falling. SoftBank May Be Getting Ready to Sell Its Stake.

Text size Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group owns almost 25% of Alibaba. Maybe not for long. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images Technology investor SoftBank may be getting ready to sell some or all ...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Warren Buffett Leapfrogs Mark Zuckerberg as Tech Slump Shakes Up Rich List

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Tech stock investors nursing heavy losses so far this year may want to seek solace with a quick glance a...

Wells Fargo Rally Shows Warren Buffett’s Mistake in Selling Big Stake in Bank

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of Warren Buffett’s worst investment moves in an otherwise fabulous career was Berkshire Hathaway ‘s sale in 2020 of a big stake in Wells Fargo a...