Berkshire Hathaway’s fifteen common stock investments that at FY2013 yearend had the largest market value
| 12/31/13 | ||||||||||
| Shares** | Company | Percentage owned | Cost* | Market | ||||||
| (in millions) | ||||||||||
| 151,610,700 | American Express Company | 14.2 | $1,287 | $13,756 | ||||||
| 400,000,000 | The Coca-Cola Company | 9.1 | 1,299 | 16,524 | ||||||
| 22,238,900 | DIRECTV | 4.2 | 1,017 | 1,536 | ||||||
| 41,129,643 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 0.9 | 3,737 | 4,162 | ||||||
| 13,062,594 | The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc | 2.8 | 750 | 2,315 | ||||||
| 68,121,984 | IBM Corp | 6.3 | 11,681 | 12,778 | ||||||
| 24,669,778 | Moody’s Corporation | 11.5 | 248 | 1,936 | ||||||
| 20,060,390 | Munich Re | 11.2 | 2,990 | 4,415 | ||||||
| 20,668,118 | Phillips 66 | 3.4 | 660 | 1,594 | ||||||
| 52,477,678 | The Procter & Gamble Co | 1.9 | 336 | 4,272 | ||||||
| 22,169,930 | Sanofi | 1.7 | 1,747 | 2,354 | ||||||
| 301,046,076 | Tesco plc | 3.7 | 1,699 | 1,666 | ||||||
| 96,117,069 | U.S. Bancorp | 5.3 | 3,002 | 3,883 | ||||||
| 56,805,984 | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc | 1.8 | 2,976 | 4,470 | ||||||
| 483,470,853 | Wells Fargo & Company | 9.2 | 11,871 | 21,950 | ||||||
| Others | 11,281 | 19,894 | ||||||||
| Total Common Stocks Carried at Market | $56,581 | $117,505 | ||||||||
| *This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis; GAAP “cost” differs in a few cases | ||||||||||
| because of write-ups or write-downs that have been required under its rules. | ||||||||||
| **Excludes shares held by Berkshire subsidiary pension funds. | ||||||||||
Data source: Warren Buffett’s letter dated February 28, 2014 for FY2013 to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders
Recommended reading:
(1) The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition
