Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings A-H (BRK-A, BRK-B, AXP, BUD, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDO, COP, COST, GCI, GSK, HD)

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After today’s close, we got to see which stocks that Warren Buffett Held in the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) as of March 31, 2008.  Buffett’s filing cut off date as he has 45-days to make his filings.  Below is a snapshot of the various holdings, and we broke these down as they were in the fed filings.  Some have multiple positions because of the various entities that are held.  Here goes:

American Express (NYSE: AXP) $753M for 17,225,400 shares.

  •     $349M 7,994,634 shares
  •     $5.25B for 120,255,879 shares
  •     $84.9M for 1,943,100 shares
  •     $61M for 1,399,713 shares
  •     $36.7M for 839,832 shares
  •     $85.3M for 1,952,142 shares

Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD)

  •     $1.678 BIL for 35,371,000 shares
  •     $9,120 for 192,200 shares

Burlington-Northern-Santa Fe NYSE: BNI) increased position

  •     $5.88B for 63,785,418 shares

Carmax Inc. (NYSE: KMX)

  •     $413.6M for 21,300,000 shares

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO)

  •     $108.1M for 1,776,000 shares
  •     $438.6M for 7,205,600 shares
  •     $2.443 BIL for 40,141,600 shares
  •     $8.518 BIL for 139,945,600 shares
  •     $556.3M for 9,139,200 shares
  •     $29.2M for 480,000 shares
  •     $55.5M for 912,000 shares

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA)

  •     $227.6M  12,000,000 shares

Comdisco (NYSE: CDO) very small position still…..
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP)

  •     $1.334 BIL for 17,508,700 shares

CostCo Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST)

  •     $341.3M for 5,254,000 shares

Gannett (NYSE: GCI)

  •     $100.1M for 3,447,600 shares

General Electric (NYSE: GE)

  •     $287.8M for 7,777,900 shares

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) small position
Home Depot (NYSE: HD)

  •     $116.9M for 4,181,000 shares

Very Small Position defined as "under $100 Million."  That may be an empire for the rest of us, but it isn’t worth nothing on Mr. Buffett’s scale.

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