They may be Berkshire-owned and Buffett-approved. That doesn't necessarily make them must-haves for you, however.
They may be Berkshire-owned and Buffett-approved.
That doesn't necessarily make them must-haves for you, however.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA +0.09%) (BRKB +0.04%) may have grown to its current size and status thanks to Warren Buffett's six decades' worth of savvy stewardship. It's Greg Abel's baby now, though.
While the current CEO still regularly speaks with the company's former one, Abel's clearly calling the shots, unwinding some of Buffett's long-held picks since taking the helm at the beginning of this year. Berkshire shed its stakes in credit card giants Visa and Mastercard in the first quarter of 2026, as well as its small Amazon position first picked up in 2019.
Perhaps far more noteworthy to interested investors, however, are the names Berkshire Hathaway still holds, or that Greg Abel has added since taking over. Here's a closer look at five of these stocks and what $1,000 allocated to each could become by 2030. They're not necessarily the conglomerate's five biggest holdings, to be clear. But these are five names that investors may be eyeing for their own portfolios.
Homebuilder Lennar (LEN -1.57%) (LENB -1.90%) isn't Berkshire's biggest bet on the housing market's recovery. That honor belongs to its combined privately held stakes in mobile home manufacturer Clayton Homes and recently acquired homebuilder Taylor Morrison. Lennar is Berkshire Hathaway's biggest publicly traded play on residential housing construction, with a position worth over $2.2 billion when including Lennar's B shares, which offer shareholders 10 times the voting power of the company's ordinary common stock.
It's one of Greg Abel's more questionable expansions of an existing Buffett pick. Most everyone agrees the highly cyclical housing market will eventually bounce back, given that purchasing activity is so tepid right now. They're just not sure it's going to happen soon enough to put this kind of capital at risk just yet.
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What's lost in this worry is that despite uncomfortably high home prices, the AEI Housing Center reports a nationwide shortage of around 6 million homes right now, versus the roughly 1.3 million the U.S. Census Bureau says we're on pace to build this year. Although it's far from a rock-steady guarantee, that's why it's conceivable that a $1,000 trade in slow-moving Lennar today could be worth on the order of $1,400 within four years.
Averytin News Financial update.