Berkshire Hathaway Stock News

After posting double-digit gains during both 2023 and 2024, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite have gotten off to an underwhelming start this year. As of this writing, the S&P 500 is down 3% on the year while the tech-heavy Nasdaq index has fallen by a more pronounced 7%.

Many investors pay close attention to whatever Warren Buffett says. The billionaire's conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -1.45%) (BRK.B -1.54%), has outperformed the market by a wide margin since he took it over in 1965, and he shares advice freely with his shareholders and followers.

There are well-heeled stock investors who believe in holding a tightly concentrated portfolio, and those more comfortable with a long list of diversified titles. Judging by the charity-focused investment vehicle that bears his surname, Microsoft (MSFT -2.96%) co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates belongs firmly in the first camp.

Over the past five years, Warren Buffett's returns have beaten the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite even as Berkshire keeps hundreds of billions in cash and Treasuries.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is sporting a market capitalization of $888 billion as I write this. That's big!

Arguably no money manager commands the attention of investors on Wall Street quite like Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 0.26%) (BRK.B 0.30%) billionaire CEO Warren Buffett. Since the aptly named "Oracle of Omaha" became CEO in the mid-1960s, he's overseen a jaw-dropping aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) that surpassed 6,400,000%, as of the closing bell on March 25.

Berkshire Hathaway stock is up 17%, proving Warren Buffett's ability to strike a win no matter how shaky the circumstances.

There's no denying that when Warren Buffett speaks, investors tend to listen. That's the attention you receive when you've built a trillion-dollar business -- Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.95%) (BRK.B 0.72%) -- and had decades of sustained success.