Billionaire Warren Buffett just sold about $3.23 billion of Berkshire Hathaway’s stake in Citigroup, Bank of America and Capital One.
After eliminating Berkshire Hathaway’s stake in JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo in recent years, new filings show Buffett continues to place US banks on the chopping block.
-->Berkshire has now also completely exited Citigroup, unloading its remaining 14,639,502 shares worth about $1 billion in Q1 of this year.
Meanwhile, the firm unloaded an additional 48.7 million Bank of America shares in Q1, worth about $2.19 billion. Berkshire Hathaway now holds 631,573,531 shares of the financial giant.
And Berkshire also dropped about $46,489,000 in Capital One exposure, or 300,000 shares, with the firm now holding onto 7.15 million shares.
Buffett’s firm further sold all shares of Brazilian fintech Nu Holdings.
Beyond banking, Berkshire reduced positions in Charter Communications, DaVita, T-Mobile and Liberty Media’s Formula One stock.
Meanwhile, Buffett boosted investments in Constellation Brands, doubling its stake to over 12 million shares, and added shares in Domino’s Pizza, Heico, VeriSign, Sirius XM, Pool Corp. and Occidental Petroleum. Berkshire’s Apple position remained unchanged.
Berkshire’s cash holdings have now ballooned to $350 billion as of March 31st, up from $334 billion at the end of 2024.
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