Berkshire Hathaway Stock News

Warren Buffett hasn't been investing much lately. The multibillionaire has been a net seller of stocks for 10 consecutive quarters.

The only Wall Street analyst who remains a fan of the shares offered a less upbeat forecast.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -1.13%) (BRK.B -0.92%) is a holding company with a number of wholly owned subsidiaries and a $280 billion portfolio of publicly traded stocks and securities. It's also sitting on a whopping $347 billion in cash that can be deployed into new opportunities.

Since becoming CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -0.97%) (BRK.B -0.92%) 60 years ago, Warren Buffett has consistently run circles around Wall Street's benchmark stock index, the S&P 500. Whereas the Oracle of Omaha has led his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) to a cumulative return of more than 6,100,000%, as of the end of May 2025, the S&P 500 has managed a total return, including dividends, of...

Investors often gravitate to value stocks for their reliability and reasonable valuations.

May was a month to remember for Wall Street's most-famous billionaire money manager, Warren Buffett. On May 3, the company Buffett has been CEO of for six decades, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -0.16%) (BRK.B -0.44%), reported its first-quarter operating results, and the Oracle of Omaha announced during his company's annual shareholder meeting that he'd be stepping down as CEO at the end of the year.

Who should take over for Ajit Jain—the brains behind Berkshire Hathaway's insurance powerhouse—when he is ready to step down? Berkshire watchers have some ideas.

Some investors are staying away from the market right now due to the volatility stocks have experienced this year and the uncertain near-term economic outlook. Even with these issues, though, stocks are likely to produce superior returns to most other assets over the next decade, as they have consistently done in the past.