Warren Buffett Falls Behind Nancy Pelosi In Stock Market Returns Over The Last 11 Years: Here's What Data Shows

Nancy Pelosi‘s investments over 11 years have outperformed the ‘Oracle of Omaha’, Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK BRK, with gains that are more than double the latter’s performance.

What Happened: According to the data from Quiver Quantitative, Pelosi’s investments have fetched her gains of 692.75% since May 16, 2014.

This is an aggregate of the sales and purchases made by her over the 11 years. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, tracking the S&P 500 index, has returned just 197.16% in the same period.

Meanwhile, Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, which is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, has advanced 303.85% from $126.86 per share as of May 16, 2014, to $512.33 apiece as of May 6, 2025.

Buffett is known to be one of the best portfolio managers of all time. Berkshire holds major investments in Apple Inc. AAPL, American Express Co. AXP, Bank of America Corp. BAC, and Coca-Cola Co. KO.

BRK has returned 13.57% this year so far, while SPY is down 4.42%. This, as Berkshire is sitting on a cashpile worth $348 billion as of the first quarter of 2025.

However, Benzinga’s Government Trades Tracker shows that Pelosi has performed below the market over the past 12 months, losing -7.40% on average.

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Why It Matters: The top stocks in Pelosi’s portfolio with investments of around $250,000 to $500,000 include Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, and Nvidia Corp. NVDA

Tempus AI Inc. TEM, Apple Inc. AAPL, and Vistra Corp. VST are also part of Pelosi’s portfolio.

During the premarket hours on Wednesday, SPY was 0.66% higher, whereas Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 QQQ, tracking the Nasdaq 100, was up 0.68%.

Benzinga Edge Stock Rankings shows that BRK-B had a strong price trend over the medium and long term but a weaker trend over the short term. Its momentum ranking was solid at 87.25th percentile, whereas its value ranking was also good at 71.33th percentile; the details of other metrics are available here.