By TOI Business Desk
Publication Date: 2025-11-15 05:33:00
Berkshire Hathaway has unveiled a new multibillion-dollar investment in Alphabet while continuing to scale back its long-running position in Apple, marking the final update of its portfolio before Warren Buffett steps down after 60 years as the chief executive. In a filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, the company reported owning 17.85 million shares of Alphabet as of September 30, an investment worth $4.3 billion. During the same quarter, Berkshire reduced its Apple stake from 280 million shares to 238.2 million, as per a Reuters report. Over the years, it has sold nearly three-quarters of the more than 900 million Apple shares it once held. Apple, however, still represented Berkshire’s largest holding at $60.7 billion. The filing detailed the conglomerate’s US-listed equity positions as of the end of September, which together made up most of its $283.2 billion stock portfolio. Alphabet’s arrival as Berkshire’s tenth-largest US holding…
