With as impressive of an investing track record as Warren Buffett has achieved, you'd expect his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio would be loaded with great stocks. And you'd be right. The good news is that you don't need a huge amount of cash to buy many of those stocks.

S&P 500 investors are playing it safer in 2025 — so Warren Buffett's careful stock-picking is in style again.

Has Warren Buffett given up on the stock market? Buffett bought 10 stocks in all of 2024 (excluding buybacks of Berkshire's shares). Several of the stocks Buffett bought last year were existing positions for Berkshire.

Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A 1.42%) ( BRK.B 1.11%) owns shares of more than 40 different companies in its portfolio. To be perfectly honest, there's a solid investment case to be made for all of them. After all, Warren Buffett and his team tend to invest in industry leaders with excellent cash flow and durable competitive advantages.

Buffett has trimmed some stocks more than others. Integrated oil and gas company Chevron (NYSE: CVX), for example, is Berkshire's fifth-largest position, and Buffett only sold small amounts in the first and second quarters of 2024 and didn't sell any in the third quarter.

It's not easy for a stock investor to beat the S&P 500 in any given year, and it's even harder to do that regularly. Consider this: From the year when Buffett took over Berkshire Hathaway through the end of 2023,

Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's 1998 Letter to Shareholders Start Your Mornings Smarter! Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day. Sign Up For Free » Warren Buffett has created incredible wealth for shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.

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