After today’s close, we saw the filing showing which stocks Warren Buffett held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) at the cut off date of March 31, 2008. This is a snapshot of his various holdings that were broken down alphabetically. Some have multiple positions because of various entities that are held. Here goes:
Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK)
- $4.6M for 77,551 shares
- $27M for 449,728 shares
- $99.5M for 1,656,900 shares
- $38.4M for 639,700 shares
Trane Inc. (NYSE: TT)
- $500M for 10,901,900 shares
US Bancorp. (NYSE: USB)
- $754,224 for 23,307,300 shares
- $911,692 for 28,173,426 shares
- $270,691 for 8,365,000 shares
- $157,473 for 4,866,300 shares
- $70,351 for 2,174,000 shares
- $56,468 for 1,745,000 shares
USG Corp. (NYSE: USG)
- $628.5M for 17,072,192 shares
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP)
- $558.3M for 4,453,000 shares
United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS)
- $104.3M for 1,429,200 shares
United Health Group (NYSE: UNH)
- $219.9M for 6,400,000 shares
Wabco Holdings (NYSE: WBC)
- $123.1M for 2,700,000 shares
Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT)
- $1.00 BIL for 18,998,300 shares
- $49.8M for 946,000 shares
Washington Post (NYSE: WPO)
- $591.5M for 894,304 shares
- $98.1M for 148,311 shares
- $428.7M for 648,165 shares
- $24.4M for 36,985 shares
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC)
- $1.556 BIL for 53,489,420 shares
- $367.9M for 12,643,200 shares
- $1.114 BIL for 38,313,040 shares
- $81.1M for 2,788,000 shares
- $29.1M for 1,000,000 shares
- $3.771 BIL for 129,591,488 shares
- $46.8M for 1,609,720 shares
- $49.4M for 1,700,000 shares
- $23.8M for 820,000 shares
- $582M for 20,000,000 shares
- $465.6M for 16,000,000 shares
- $232.8M for 8,000,000 shares
- $78.57M for 2,700,000 shares
- $58.2M for 2,000,000 shares
Wellpoint (NYSE: WLP)
- $211.8M for 4,800,000 shares
Wesco Financial (AMEX: WSC)
- $2.3 BIL for 5,703,087 shares
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings A – H
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings I – S
Jon C. Ogg
May 15, 2008