Tuesday, March 04, 2025 | 07:37 AM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Buffett's appetite for Berkshire stock surpasses cash spent on Apple shares

Berkshire spent nearly $20 billion more repurchasing its own stock since the middle of 2018 than it deployed accumulating its Apple stake through the end of last year

Warren Buffett
Premium

Buybacks have now surpassed even Berkshire’s largest holding, an Apple Inc. stake valued at more than $121 billion at the end of September. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg | Katherine Chiglinsky
Warren Buffett has spent more money buying back Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s stock in recent years than he did amassing his biggest equity bet on Apple Inc.

Berkshire spent nearly $20 billion more repurchasing its own stock since the middle of 2018 than it deployed accumulating its Apple stake through the end of last year. In total, Buffett poured about $51 billion into buybacks since a change to its policy more than three years ago, and appears to have continued snapping up at least $1.7 billion of stock since the end of September.

Buffett, Berkshire’s chairman and chief executive officer, has

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in