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Warren Buffett Just Spent $1.8 Billion on 7 Stocks. Here's the Best of the Bunch
Buffett's relatively small investments could be big opportunities for individual investors.
Warren Buffett is one of the most widely followed investment managers in the world. And there's good reason for that. His 60-year run at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) has been nothing short of phenomenal. Investors who followed Buffett into the company have realized a compound average annual return of about 20% since Buffett took over the business in 1965. That's nearly twice the average annual return of the S&P 500.
But it appears that Buffett has struggled in recent quarters to find great ways to deploy Berkshire's growing cash reserves. His potential best opportunities are getting only a small amount of capital infusion, as it appears that he's determined that many of the best large-cap stocks are overvalued. As a result, Berkshire put only $3.2 billion of cash into equities in the first quarter, leaving about $347 billion in cash and Treasury bill investments.
Some of that $3.2 billion went into an undisclosed stock exempted from disclosure by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The rest, which appears to be about $1.8 billion, went into seven different stocks reported on Berkshire's quarterly 13F filing.
