Bill Gates’ Stock Portfolio: Top 5 Picks

1. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B)

Warren Buffett’s investment holding firm Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) is the largest stock holding of Bill Gates portfolio. It accounts for 45% of the overall portfolio valued at $10 billion. Although Berkshire Hathaway does not offer dividends to investors, Bill Gates’ portfolio benefited from the robust share price gains. The shares of Buffett’s Berkshire grew 180% in the last ten years.

Nomadic Value Investors talked about Berkshire Hathaway in their Q2 investor letter:

“We added to Berkshire Hathaway. I won’t spend too much talking about this, but BRK is as attractively priced as it’s been in some time. The press’s and FinTwit’s fascination with “Warren’s lost it” is at a cyclical peak and is complete noise. However, the valid bear argument is that BRK is too big to compound at good rates going forward, and subsidiary company performance will be weak for the next couple of years with its high exposure to air traffic (Precision Cast Parts and previously held airline stocks) and holdings in “old economy” manufacturing and retail businesses. Also, short-term there’s an unknown consequence of insurance claim payouts and/or refunds13 . We wouldn’t completely disagree with these judgments, and the optics are certainly bad when BRK doesn’t buy back shares in a quarter with a substantial sell-down. However, with a long-term lens and given the management style of BRK (conservative talk and overperform), we will likely be quite satisfied in the future – whatever that looks like. Meanwhile, we’ve gotten into a range where 30%-50% of BRK is free. Are the actual growth prospects for Berkshire this dire? Berkshire is our largest position.”

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