Warren Buffett's Giant Berkshire Portfolio: Top 10 Includes Banks, Oil, And Apple

Over multiple decades, legendary investor Warren Buffett has helped produce incredible returns for conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK), often times outperforming the S&P 500.

With news that Buffett is stepping down as Berkshire CEO at the end of the year, here's a look at the top 10 stock holdings of the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.

Buffett Builds Berkshire Hathaway: Buffett has shaped Berkshire Hathaway from the early days of a textile maker into a conglomerate that owns companies like Duracell, Dairy Queen, GEICO, Fruit of the Loom, Jazwares, Pilot Flying J and more.

Along with acquiring businesses outright, Buffett has also built a portfolio of large stakes in publicly traded companies over the years.

Here's a look at the current top 10 holdings of Berkshire Hathaway's stock portfolio, as reported by CNBC. The list includes the stock, the current value and percentage of the stock portfolio.

1. Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL): $60.1 billion, 21.8% of the portfolio
2. American Express (NYSE:AXP): $42.4 billion, 15.4%
3. Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO): $28.7 billion, 10.4%
4. Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC): $28.2 billion, 10.2%
5. Chevron Corp (NYSE:CVX): $16.1 billion, 5.8%
6. Moody's Corp (NYSE:MCO): $11.5 billion, 4.2%
7. Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY): $10.4 billion, 3.8%
8. Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC): $9.3 billion, 3.4%
9. Chubb Ltd (NYSE:CB): $7.8 billion, 2.8%
10. Itochu Corporation: $7.1 billion, 2.6%

Together, the top 10 stocks in the Berkshire Hathaway represent 80.4% of the portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway owns stakes of 6% or more in each of the 10 companies, other than Apple. Berkshire owns around 2% of Apple.

Many of these stocks have been long-time holdings of Berkshire Hathaway added decades ago. Others, like Apple, have been added to the portfolio as Buffett's opinion on a stock or sector change.

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Berkshire Hathaway Performance: Shares of Berkshire Hathaway hit new all-time highs on Friday ahead of the annual shareholders meeting, where Buffett surprised the crowd with his stepping down announcement.

On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway stock fell over 5% as investors grasped what the company could look like without Buffett and with the company reporting lower operating profit year-over-year.

Year-to-date, Berkshire Hathaway stock is up 13.2%, outperforming the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY), which is down 3.4%. Berkshire Hathaway has also outperformed the S&P 500 ETF over the one-year and five-year periods.

Here's a look at the year-to-date performance of the top 10 Berkshire Hathaway holdings:

1. Apple: -18.2%
2. American Express: -6.5%
3. Coca-Cola Co: +15.8%
4. Bank of America: -6.8%
5. Chevron Corp: -7.7%
6. Moody's Corp: -1.7%
7. Occidental Petroleum: -21.7%
8. Kraft Heinz: -7.4%
9. Chubb Ltd: +5.7%
10. Itochu: -9.7%

Of the top 10 holdings, only two are positive year-to-date in 2025, putting more pressure on the Berkshire Hathaway non-stock holdings like the insurance and energy units, which are wholly owned, to perform well during the year.

With a changing of CEO, there is a chance that the top 10 holdings in the Berkshire Hathaway stock portfolio look significantly different at this time next year. Although, many of these stocks have been outperforming the market and helping Berkshire Hathaway produce strong returns annually.

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