Warren Buffett’s 5 Most Profitable Investments of All Time

1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 127   

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a California-based technology company founded in 1976. It is ranked first on our list of Warren Buffett’s most profitable investments of all time. The company’s shares have returned more than 50% to investors over the course of the past year. Buffett first bought a stake in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in late 2016, and has added to his initial investments slowly every quarter since, only selling a small portion at the end of 2020. Berkshire owns more than 5% of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) through shares worth over $110 billion.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock has soared by almost 400% since Buffett first started investing. The tech company now represents the largest holding of Berkshire, accounting for more than 40% of its entire portfolio. According to calculations by news platform CBS, Buffett has made more than $100 billion on his investment on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), including dividend payments over the years that have fetched a handsome $3 billion. 

At the end of the first quarter of 2021, 127 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $130 billion in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), down from 146 in the preceding quarter worth $142 billion.

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, Distillate Capital, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“Apple is an even more notable situation and one that highlights our free cash valuation methodology and bears further discussion given its Q3 ‘20 sale from our strategy. For an extended period, Apple was extraordinarily inexpensive on a free cash flow basis and was the largest position in our strategy, exceeding 5% of the portfolio.”

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