A Look At All Of Warren Buffett's First Quarter Moves

Legendary investor’s Warren Buffett’s fund Berkshire Hathaway filed its first quarter Form 13F with the SEC on Friday. According to the record, the famed investment firm has an equity portfolio worth more than $107 billion, mainly focused on companies from the financial sector (45 percent) and consumer staples (25 percent).

As it is usual, Mr. Buffett’s holdings remained pretty much unchanged over the quarter: there were no new arrivals, nor positions closed. The fund did, however, boost its exposure to 7 stocks and trimmed its participation in another 8 companies.

Increased Exposure

Wells Fargo & Co WFC continued to occupy the first place in Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio, in terms of market value. After adding 6,834,236 shares to its holdings over the first quarter, the fund declared ownership of 470,292,359 shares, worth about $25.5 billion – which account for more than 23.8 percent of its equity portfolio’s total value.

Buffett’s well-known stake in The Coca-Cola Co KO –the second most valuable position- remained untouched, at 400,000,000 shares.

Third in line is International Business Machines Corp. IBM, which saw the fund boost its exposure by 3 percent, to 79,565,115 shares, worth about $12.77 billion.

Other stocks that witnessed increases in Berkshire’s bets are:

• U.S. Bancorp USB, up 4 percent, to 83,773,390 shares
• Deere & Company DE, up 213,204 shares, to 17,310,090 shares
• Precision Castparts Corp. PCP, up 47 percent, to 4,200,792 shares
• Phillips 66 PSX, up 14 percent, to 7,499,450 shares
• Twenty-First Century Fox Inc FOXA, up 31 percent, to 6,228,097 shares.

Reduced Exposure

As mentioned above, eight companies saw Mr. Buffett diminish his involvement.

The Oracle of Omaha reduced his stake in:

• Charter Communications, Inc. CHTR, by 3 percent, to 5,979,136 shares
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp BK, by 6 percent, to 20,680,420 shares
• Visa Inc V, by 152,000 shares, to 9,885,160 shares
• Viacom, Inc. VIAB, by 4 percent, to 8,265,079 shares
• Liberty Global plc LBTYA, also by 4 percent, to 10,342,793 Class A Ordinary Shares shares
• WABCO Holdings Inc. WBC, by 5 percent, to 3,863,195 shares
• Mastercard Inc MA, by 3 percent, to 5,229,756 shares
• National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. NOV, by 62 percent, to 1,978,895 shares