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Buffet's last prank (Q4 2025 13F-Filing)

Warren Buffett closed his last quarter as CEO of $BRK.B (+0.63%) yesterday - and there was a real surprise:


New York Times $NYT (+0.14%)

- First time investor with 5+ million shares (~$352 million)

- This from a man who sold all newspapers in 2020 and declared the industry "dead"

- The difference? NYT has 12.78m digital subscriptions - digital business model instead of print


📈 UPDATED:

- Chevron $CVX (-1.54%) - further increased to 130+ million shares

- Domino's Pizza $DPZ (-0.31%) - Additional purchases

- Chubb $CB (-1.37%) & Lamar Advertising $LAMR (-1.67%) - increased


📉 MASSIVELY REDUCED:

- Apple $AAPL (+0.02%) -10.3m shares sold (~$2.7bn) - 3rd sale in a row

- Amazon $AMZN (+3.48%) -77% (!!) - from 10m to only 2.3m shares

- Bank of America $BAC (-0.06%) -50.8m shares, stake now below 7%


🏆 TOP 5 HOLDINGS (weighting 31.12.2025):

1. Apple $AAPL (+0.02%) - 22,60%

2. American Express $AXP (+1.09%) - 20,46%

3. Bank of America $BAC (-0.06%) - 10,38%

4. coca-cola $KO (-2.21%) - 10,20%

5. chevron $CVX (-1.54%) - 7,24%


✅ Continuity: No fundamental change in strategy despite handover to Greg Abel (CEO from 1.1.2026)

✅ Dividend focus: Chevron, Coca-Cola, AmEx remain core → sustainable dividend growth stocks

✅ Quality over quantity: focus on companies with "economic moats" and pricing power

✅ Valuation discipline: large sell-offs in Apple/Amazon indicate profit-taking and risk management


So the motto remains: stable dividends, moderate growth rates, defensive quality.

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$NYT is also interesting from a chart perspective. He has virtually traded the breakout from a 21-year cup with a handle 😉

(But the position is only 0.13% of the portfolio, so it's actually negligible)
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