Berkshire added a 10 million share position in General Motors , worth about $222 million at today's closing price of $22.18. The stock is moving higher in after-hours trading.
Given the relatively small size of the stake, however, it was almost certainly bought for Berkshire by one of Buffett's new portfolio managers,
Todd Combs
or
Ted Weschler
, not by Buffett himself.
Viacom is another new stock in the list. Berkshire held about 1.6 million shares as of March 31. That position is worth about $75 million at today's close of $46.99. Again, it's unlikely Buffett himself pulled the trigger on that one.
Increased Stakes
- Bank of New York Mellon: Added 3,813,551 shares ( 213%), currently worth $80.6 million.
- Davita: Added 3,315,500 shares ( 124%), currently worth $272.6 million.
- Liberty Media: Added 1,298,600 shares ( 76%), currently worth $137.0 million.
- Wal-Mart: Added 7,671,000 shares ( 20%), currently worth $455.3 million.
- DirecTV: Added 2,651,200 shares ( 13%), currently worth $124.5 million.
- Wells Fargo: Added 10,631,300 shares ( 3%), currently worth $342.8 million.
- IBM: Added 489,769 shares ( 1%), currently worth $97.5 million.
Decreased Stakes
- Verisk Analytics: Dropped 1,214,881 shares (-35%), currently worth $59.4 million.
- Intel: Dropped 3,750,000 shares (-33%), currently worth $100.8 million.
- Dollar General: Dropped 860,083 shares (-19%), currently worth $40.4 million.
- Kraft Foods: Dropped 9,017,548 shares (-10%), currently worth $350.1 million.
- Procter & Gamble: Dropped 3,511,900 shares (-5%), currently worth $223.8 million.
- US Bancorp: Dropped 100 shares (0%), currently worth $3,130.
Today's filing doesn't include the 1,218,199 shares of Comdisco Holding shares that were included in the Q4 list.
The market value of Berkshire's reported holdings totaled $75.3 billion as of March 31, up from $66.2 billion as of December 31, 2011. That increase of 13.7 percent is presumably due to both the addition of new stock and higher prices for some of the shares Berkshire already held.
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