Berkshire sold 20.7 million of those shares in the third quarter of 2024, but its 86.4 million remaining shares are still worth $949 million and give it a 1.8% stake in the company. Berkshire's stake in Nu only accounts for 0.3% of its entire portfolio, but the Latin American bank is still growing much faster than its brick-and-mortar competitors.

Warren Buffett and his team at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) have long dabbled in bank stocks, owning almost every major Wall Street bank at one time or another over the past several decades.

The third industry-leading AI stock Warren Buffett secretly owns shares of via New England Asset Management is Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG). Despite NEAM selling shares of Alphabet for five consecutive quarters, the fund still held 5,195 Class A shares (GOOGL) as of Sept. 30.

With as impressive of an investing track record as Warren Buffett has achieved, you'd expect his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio would be loaded with great stocks. And you'd be right. The good news is that you don't need a huge amount of cash to buy many of those stocks.

S&P 500 investors are playing it safer in 2025 — so Warren Buffett's careful stock-picking is in style again. Here's why I loaded up on shares of the real estate investment trust (REIT) in my retirement account.

Warren Buffett stock American Express is flashing a bullish signal after breaking out, with earnings due next week. American Express stock wavered in buy range on Thursday. Also, American Express on Thursday announced it would pay a roughly $230 million settlement following a Department of Justice criminal wire fraud investigation.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930 and is one of history's most successful investors. Trained under the tutelage of Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing,