5 Long-Term Stocks to Buy According to Warren Buffett

1. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 143

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is another long-term holding of the legendary investor. According to 13F filings, Berkshire has held a stake in the company since 2011. The value of this holding has increased from $196 million in 2011 to $2 billion at the end of September 2021. The fund reduced stake in the firm by over 4% in the third quarter compared to the filings for the second. 

At the end of the third quarter of 2021, 143 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $26 billion in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), down from 162 in the preceding quarter worth $27 billion. 

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, ClearBridge Investments, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“To make room for these new names with more attractive outlooks related to the reopening, we sold out of companies where the thesis is not playing out at the pace we expected including Visa.”

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