| Obviously the trick is to own the companies that sell with the beautiful brochures, as is the case here. 40% of BH's publicly-traded holdings are AAPL stock. 11% is Bank of America. 9% is Chevron. 7% is Coca Cola. https://www.cnbc.com/berkshire-hathaway-portfolio/ You could replicate 84% of the publicly-traded side of BH with 8 US-based holdings. But BH trades at 1.5x price to book... not sure if it's really worth it. But there's some VC-style genius in his non-trading holdings (e.g. GEICO and railways) directly held on its book or its <1% public holdings. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-A/key-statistics/ (Though the asset value of the railroads, railcars, energy, pipelines, etc. (not even including liabilities) is about equal to its AAPL holdings, which is all asset/equity). Overall, if you want a set-and-forget investment, I'd still say go for BH stock. |