Stocks with Warren Buffett as the largest shareholder

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRKB) portfolio includes nearly four dozen stocks. Among those stocks, Buffett owns anywhere from a few tens of thousands to a billion shares in each of those stocks, and in several of those, Berkshire is the top shareholder.

Buffett’s largest holding is 1.01 billion shares of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). At Thursday’s closing price of $39.80, the value of those shares is $40.2 billion. Buffett owned 11.8% of the bank’s outstanding stock. BofA pays a dividend yield of 1.81%. For the year to date, BofA shares have increased by about 32.5%. The shares are up 3.3% so far in the second quarter.

Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) has been in Berkshire’s portfolio since 1988. Buffett is the company’s largest shareholder with 400 million shares of stock (9.28% of shares outstanding). At Thursday’s closing price of $54.95, Buffett’s stake is worth about $22 billion. Coca-Cola pays a dividend yield of 3.06%, and Buffett has never sold a share

of Coca-Cola stock.

American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is another company where Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are the top shareholders. Buffet owns 151.6 million shares of Amex’s stock, nearly 19% of the shares outstanding. At Thursday’s closing price of $162.12, his stake is worth about $24.6 billion. The company pays a dividend yield of 1.04%. The shares have gained 35% for the year to date and 14.6% in the second quarter.

Buffett owns 72.35 million shares of Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK), accounting for 8.26% of shares outstanding and the bank’s top shareholder. At Thursday’s closing price of $49.48, Buffett’s stake is $3.6 billion. The bank pays a dividend yield of 2.51%. Shares added 18.3% so far in 2021, including a gain of 5.3% in the second quarter.

More than a third (33.99%) of the outstanding shares of dialysis center owner DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) have found their way into Buffett’s portfolio. Based on Thursday’s closing price of $123.61 and Buffett’s holding of 36.1 million shares, his stake in DaVita is valued at $4.46 billion. The company does not pay a dividend. For the year to date, DaVita stock is up 5.3%, including a gain of 14.7% to date in the second quarter. (24/7 Wall St.com)