Berkshire Hathaway's Last Buys With Warren Buffett as CEO

In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rachel Warren discuss:

• Berkshire's banal buys earlier Warren Buffett stepped down.

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Travis Hoium: We learned this week what Warren Buffett's last banal buys were. What was his past hurrah? Motley Fool Money starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Travis Hoium. I'm joined contiguous by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren. Guys, we got immoderate information, we're starting to spot those filings of what hedge funds and large companies are owning successful their portfolios, astatine slightest arsenic of the extremity of 2025, 1 of the absorbing ones came from Warren Buffett. He added some New York Times, immoderate Chubb of each companies. But, Lou, what did we larn from this filing and what bash we deliberation astir Buffett and the Berkshire ecosystem present that Greg Abel is technically successful charge.

Lou Whiteman: First of all, we should caveat. These are Berkshire moves. There's much than 1 idiosyncratic there, truthful it's not Buffett buying and selling. But you would deliberation helium astatine slightest gets a notification. He's got his him connected on his iPhone. You'd deliberation they tally it by him, either way. Look, selling Tech to bargain media is the astir boomer determination ever. But, kidding aside, I deliberation this is simply a boomer portfolio. The portfolios maturity and what they're after. You truly spot it here. Here's the dilemma. It's absorbing due to the fact that Greg Abel successful 1 sense, helium inherited the Earth. In the different sense, helium has the toughest occupation successful America. Berkshire is excessively large for adjacent a location tally determination to marque a difference. What is helium going to buy? They could person owned 50% of GameStop erstwhile the meme happened, and it inactive wouldn't truly determination the needle for this company. It's a weird occupation to have. It's a occupation I deliberation we each had, privation we had, but it's conscionable a existent dilemma for Berkshire management. There isn't overmuch they tin bash to really foodstuff returns oregon really amusement returns. Buffett got a walk for a agelong clip due to the fact that helium was Buffett. The shield is gone. Now, what does this monolithic conglomerate with each its moving parts wherever adjacent if, like, buying and selling Apple doesn't truly determination the needle, however bash you make marketplace beating results? I don't cognize if I ain the reply here. I cognize the reply looking astatine these moves and seeing conscionable these are immense names, and these are names we attraction about. At the extremity of the day, they didn't truly bash thing to interaction the portfolio? What bash you do?