Berkshire Hathaway is the holding company of super-investor Warren Buffett. He transformed a struggling textile mill into a conglomerate with a significant portfolio of equites and significant interests in railroads, insurance, utilities, industrials etc.
Because of the size of his equity portfolio investments, Berkshire Hathaway has to report its US equity holdings every quarter to the SEC. Some foreign investments are also reported to the corresponding Foreign securities regulator.
You can find the updated US portfolio holdings for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)(BRK.B) as of March 31, 2025:
You can see that Apple (AAPL) accounts for 26% of the equity portfolio as of March 31, 2025. This position has generated over $100 billion in profits for Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
Buffett has managed to accumulate the position between 2016 and 2018 at a total cost of approximately $36 billion. He has been selling his Apple position over the past year. In addition, Apple sends millions in dividends each year to Berkshire Hathaway.
He did make large investments in Apple, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, American Express and Kraft Heinz. His portfolio is concentrated mostly as a result of letting winners run, and not selling prematurely.
Note that this portfolio excludes stakes in non-US listed companies such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, BYD, Marubeni, Sumitomo Corp.
Warren Buffett Foreign Stock Holdings as of March 31,2025 |
I was able to find out a listing of foreign holdings at Tikr.
Looks like Berkshire Hathaway holds $23.980 Billion in foreign companies, which generate $940 Million in annual dividend income.
The 13F also revealed that Berkshire is omitting one or more holding for which it requested confidential treatment.
You can view the dividend contribution from each of his portfolio holdings from the table below. Berkshire Hathaway is generating almost $4.473 billion in annual dividend income from his portfolio.
Note this doesn't include dividends received from privately owned businesses such as See's Candies or Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Nor does it include $760 Million in annual dividends from Berkshire Hathaway's investment in Occidental Petroleum Preferred stock.
The total portfolio value was roughly $258.71 Billion dollars as March 31. It is on track to generate $4.473 Billion in annual dividend income. Approximately $249 Billion of value is related to dividend paying stocks. Only $9.50 Billion out of the whole $258.71 Billion is invested in non-dividend paying companies.
For the quarter ended on March 31, 2025, Warren Buffett and his lieutenants Todd and Ted added to the following existing positions:
They reduced ownership in the following companies: