Overview
- Greg Abel has rapidly reworked Berkshire’s public equity book, cutting the number of stock positions from 42 to 29 and reallocating capital into a smaller set of larger stakes.
- Berkshire committed $10 billion as an anchor investor in Alphabet’s equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, a transaction disclosed in Alphabet’s SEC filing.
- The Alphabet investment, combined with earlier Q1 purchases, pushed Berkshire’s total reported stake above longtime holdings such as Coca‑Cola in portfolio value according to multiple reports.
- The company is simultaneously deploying cash into acquisitions, including an announced roughly $8.5 billion deal for homebuilder Taylor Morrison, showing the firm is using scale to pursue both private placements and buyouts.
- Public 13F filings lag real‑time deals, so exact share counts and market values differ across reports and the longer‑term effects of this tech tilt on Berkshire’s risk profile and operating businesses remain to be seen.