While Warren Buffett may have retired from his post as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway as 2025 drew to a close, he remains chairman of the board — and one of the most influential and well-known investors of all time.
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Here’s a list of the former Berkshire CEO’s best stock purchases. Berkshire Makes a Mint on Apple Stock, but May Have Sold Too Early Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased around 1 billion shares of tech giant Apple between the years of 2016 and 2018 at an average price of ~$35 per share. Selling most of its shares in Q2 2024, after having unloaded another bundle in 2023, the multinational holding company saw a pretax gain of about $90 billion in 2024, as well as a further $6 billion in 2025.
However, with Apple having hit an all-time high stock price in late 2025, more than $50 billion of further gains were left on the table. Learn More: Self-Made Millionaires Suggest 5 Stocks You Should Never Sell Coca-Cola Has Been a Longstanding Winner for Buffett and Company Historically a Buffett favorite stock pick, Coca-Cola has delivered massive dividends (literally and figurative) for Berkshire Hathaway. Beginning in 1988, and investing until the early 1990s to the tune of ~$1.3 billion, Buffett’s Berkshire held (and holds) about 400 million shares of the world-famous food and beverage company.