Warren Buffett on Apple stake: Apple is a better business than any other we own

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger preside over the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. The two discuss Apple's weight in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: cnb.cx/2NGeIvi
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[@NA-du5vm]

I love how Charlie is just chilling and starts eating his peanut brittle..lol

[@934ist]

Right?? I'm buying stock of that peanut brittle company

[@mrgod5139]

You mean like a squirrel right

[@helloken]

Warren immediately makes the point that I was thinking about too, Apple is not 35% of Berkshire's portfolio. So many ppl forget that Berkshire has hundreds of billions of dollars in value from wholly owned businesses like BNSF, Geico, Sees Candy, Duracell, Dairy Queen, etc. Most ppl only see the publically traded companies and forget all the privately owned businesses that are also part of Berkshire's portfolio.

[@jamesm.3967]

The comment by the prof was misinterpreted. He meant 35% of the stock portfolio….even so Apple is 8 % approx of Brk assets…that’s a lot.

[@bighands69]

@@jamesm.3967 Berkshire is not a private individual investor. It is a business and at a scale far beyond a standard investor. Warren could easily lift the phone and speak to Tim Cook which is not an option for a standard investor. Berkshire could lose all of its apple shares and still make that money back through its standard business which is not an option for an individual investor.

[@JP1234815]

@@jamesm.3967 I bet Apple only accounts for about 6% of Berkshire's total worth. If all the Subsidiaries were sold off they would collectively be worth far more than Berkshire's current market cap!! Having said that Berkshire not only own Apple stock directly but indirectly too by virtue of holding 2 Tracker ETFs and Markel's portfolio includes another 1 million shares!!

[@JP1234815]

@@bighands69 Being a 6% investor Berkshire has a big say in that company's policy too - something an investor owning 100 shares wont have.

[@JP1234815]

As Warren alluded to BNSF is worth more than their stake in Apple, collectively the Insurance business(es) are worth more than Berkshire's Apple's stake and, although not there yet - BH Energy is growing its assets at a tremendous rate. At the last look Apple made up almost 50% of Berkshire's stock portfolio but it does power the gains tremendously.

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[@earlwilliams5473]

Charlie Is so funny when he gets straight to the point.

[@Bhavesh_verma]

Yeah he has a good sense of humor

[@mikev4373]

Charlie is correct most people don’t know the limitations of their knowledge. If you’re not smart enough to know a good business from a bad business you shouldn’t be buying individual common stock.

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[@tysonatkins2468]

The man eating into the mic was a nice touch

[@1292liam]

Charlie is 99 years old - so amazing!

[@vicweast]

I am going to miss listening to these two guys... They are the best

[@33moneyball]

One underrated aspect of the Berkshire Annual Meeting I appreciate is the baseline level of respect for the hard earned wisdom of elders in a society that basically worships youth to its detriment.

[@arigutman]

Apple is by far the best stock an investor can own, change my mind!

[@11BravoRVN]

BRK

[@narz7573]

I'd say Microsoft or Costco Wholesale are just as good if not better , Costco has a higher yield (although both are quite low initial yeild ) has special dividends once every few years and the price is less volatile it's very steady growth and they are continuing to expand internationally. Microsoft has the Azure cloud and windows and office 365 which is essential for any laptop /pc device not called a MacBook/chrome book. Their dividend yield is higher and dividend increase is better. The growth of both Costco and Microsoft are also solid.

[@SaurabhAmbekar]

What was Munger’s comment in the beginning? Couldn’t catch it.

[@VanGoghGlobetrotter]

I love Mr. Munger! Lol! Such wisdom between these two gentlemen! 😊

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

He is largely a Chinese shill at this point. His cokebottle glasses have allowed him to gloss over slave labor being used by China to make Apple products, the concentration camp environment and systematic destruction of the Wiguer population in China, the tyranny of their political system, the fact people are often disappeared for months at a time. Only Recenly Jack Ma was seen in Japan working as a university professor ??? I'm sure China re educated him to the point where he has PTSD now. The fact China wants to militarily invade and conquor the Democratic Soveriegn nation of Taiwan. Munger and Warren will both take massive losses if war breaks out between China and Taiwan.

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[@rereAL205]

Charlie smacking in the mic is so funny to me

[@Clint_the_Audio-Photo_Guy]

"De-Worsification" Haha, I love it.

[@quannga99]

I love it. One man keeps talking, the other keeps munching away his snack.

[@paultweedley2026]

I was wondering if it was time to sell my Apple shares but after listening to these comments from Warren I'll hold on for a few more years! 👍

[@bighands69]

You have to look at what apple is to really decide if it is worth holding or not. It has a very high return on capital, low debts, cash on hand, free cash flow with products and services that people use.

[@paultweedley2026]

@@bighands69 Apple is great company and I'm invested but you are wrong to say it has low debt, on the contrary it's long term debt to equity ratio is 1.56. For ever dollar of equity it carries $1.56 dollar's of debt, that's a high level of debt in my book but fortunately they can carry that debt because they are hugely profitable with a extremely strong brand!

[@peterjanoff]

I agree with Warren. Apple is 40% of my portfolio as well.

[@onebridge7231]

Interesting. Warren includes the cash reserves as part of the overall portfolio. Never thought of including cash as part of my portfolio.

[@bighands69]

Berkshire Hathaway portfolio is not the same as an individual investors portfolio.

[@prism8289]

They really need to get Statler and Waldorf to sit in for these guys sometime, or at least give the intro.

[@armin4984]

Jim Cramer just said something similar, be wary of the early birds telling you a windy story. Due your own dd.

[@SunWest-f3t]

Would you think I can invest ,

[@mattinterweb]

Does Charlie Munger ever stop eating?

[@bighands69]

Berkshire is not a fund nor is it an actual portfolio. Berkshire is a company so its practices are not the same as an individual investor with a portfolio.

[@bsjddjk]

what the hell is happening with caption ? ridiculously wrong & charlie & warren voice is now hard to understand

[@Journeyman-Fixit]

Real American Businessmen, got to love it!

[@DrummerBoy233]

"A lot of people who are geniuses on IQ tests, think they're a lot smarter than what they are. And what they are is dangerous." - Charlie Munger That was brilliant phrasing.

[@bennobenny750]

Reminds me of Bill Gates

[@mk810]

Man loves his peanut brittle

[@papi3071]

Apple is a brilliant business. I love their products and I wish I could have more. But there is a very big difference between liking the business and liking the price at which it is selling at. For me, the brand power that Apple has generated has translated to this cult amongst retail and institutional investors where the belief is that you can buy Apple at any price. I’m not convinced at paying growth stock like prices for a company that had a yoy revenue decline and may only grow at a very stable rate in future. I would love to own more of the stock, but 170 at a PE of 29 feels way too rich.

[@paultweedley2026]

Agree, if it were to drop below 140 in a crisis of some sort I'll be buying much much more!

[@weird-guy]

Depends on how successful the transition to subscription/sass software will be, also they should enter the cloud market.

[@ivoivanov2150]

I think the same way

[@bighands69]

How do you know that apple is selling at too high a price? Apple has a return on capital that is in excess of 30%, holds no debts, has 60 billion cash on hand, 100 billion free cash flow for 2022 and makes the majority of its money through very high margin processes. So what do you think makes them too expensive?

[@thehonesttruth8808]

You should read their balance sheet: 100b in debt

[@NikoTinbergen-n5i]

Why doesn’t Warren have the same concern about Apple he has about TSMC? Apple products are manufactured in China.

[@marioalll]

Yes but Apple has extraordinary relationship with China. Taiwan not.

[@murica1898]

Apple has a position with consumers and if they would have to they would sell there second car before getting rid of these apple phone

[@bighands69]

Apple is not manufactured in China it is assembled in China which is not the same thing. Apple uses components that come from several different manufacturing sectors. The screens are made in a completely different sector to that of the processors, memory, analogs and so on. Apple has massive challenges ahead of its self to try and change its assembly reliance on the Chinese market place.

[@kylemarshall9621]

Real OGs

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

He'll get rid of Apple the moment it fails to offer value. Might be this year, Cook's had a 1% Berkshire disposal warning shot across the bows.

[@TerenceLynn-ot3zw]

Questions are already known and host possibly intentionally lied 35 percent of Berkshire investment with AApl.

[@bsjddjk]

i have to watch this viedeo 2 times coz at 1st time i just watched chilled charlie eating peanuts

[@Archer-hg9rw]

I think the car example isn't fair most people would give up their iphone for an Android in exchange of a car, I get that's not his point

[@IanDunlap]

🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮

[@lindadavis5667]

I love you guys ♥️

[@2345cbreslin]

how long will it take for Berkshire to own a position in bitcoin? perhaps when the price of a btc exceeds a price of brk A, which is currently pricing at about a half a mil

[@marioalll]

They said that Bitcoin is scam.

[@2345cbreslin]

@@marioalll I bought my first bitcoin in 2013 for 153 bucks and people said it was a scam back then, today bitcoin is over 26,000

[@marioalll]

@@2345cbreslin yes, but since there is any fundamental factor behind BTC, it is really uncertain its future price; In 10 years, It could be 500,000$ or zero. I prefer to stick to more predictable assets. What you've done in 2013 is just making a casino bet. "The house" always wins.

[@bighands69]

@@2345cbreslin You bought it back then with out any means of knowing what its real value was or how that value would relate to 2023. Bitcoin is not an investment for 99.99% of people.

[@2345cbreslin]

@@bighands69 the reason I bought in 2013 still exist today which is why I continue to hold and will not sell unless higher prices are had

[@livelovelaugh3828]

Some people are going to buy Apple some are going to buy it's stock

[@yasirpanezai5690]

There is a reason these 2 are alive

[@IMMERSIVEVOICE]

One of them isn’t

[@elilammers3645]

i own everything

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[@118Columbus]

Since Charlie is a billionaire now, he should spring for a napkin instead of using the back of his hand ✋…

[@tomdrummy4984]

That’s why he is a billionaire 🙂. Broke people buy expensive napkins lol

[@le9335]

Sounds inefficient

[@BusinessWolf1]

​@@tomdrummy4984 you conflated the issue to make a strawman

[@bighands69]

It is what you do not see that counts. Under the table charlie has employed a team of cleaners that wipe his hands. He also gets leg massages to ensure he does not get sleepy legs when he sits down too long.

[@omppc]

Ma'am what about Franklin Templeton...

[@SunWest-f3t]

Hi there

[@TerenceLynn-ot3zw]

Buffett said he doesn't know future but ask him predictions ?

[@m.m.m.c.a.k.e]

I trust ya, fellas. Appreciate your efforts 🫡

[@MPDLR]

He's right. People - are OWNED by their phones. Owned.

[@omppc]

In Odisha we had a building near Esplande Mall...

[@akirakrusemark]

My spouse and I are adding a variety of stocks/ETF to my present holdings for the long term, We've set aside $250k to start following inflation-indexed bonds and stocks of companies with solid cash flows, I believe it is a good time to capitalize on the market for long-term gains, but it wouldn't hurt to know means of actualizing short term profit

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[@omppc]

My father only got me a phone called Kechaoda worth INR 800...

[@Streetsmart1984]

Bruh, ain’t Charlie munger like 100 years old now?

[@blockchainmail]

Close. He'll be 100 on January 1st.

[@welmoepics]

He just passed away today :(

[@sleekblackroadster]

Apple rips people off

[@bighands69]

Nope. People get exactly what they want and are willing to pay for it. Same with the other products from other manufacturers.

[@lime221-zu8ur]

People don't purchase Apple products for purposes of charity. They clearly derive utility from them.

[@elilammers3645]

hello

[@adityapatnaik7078]

Damodar is the joke

[@ethansaltmere]

apple has been 80% of my portfolio since 1856. as you can imagine, it's paid dividends

[@gethomeopathyonline]

Few years ago WB was not at all in favour of Apple, dynamics have changed

[@bighands69]

Not a few years ago but a decade ago. Berkshire does not invest in technology it invests in companies.

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

boy, boy

[@martinspedding4210]

Dreadful products selling to a cult with an excessive profit margin. Upgrading off iPhone is the best decision you can ever make

[@maalikserebryakov]

The iphone is decent and gets a weird amount of hate Yes the new versions are scams but just dont buy them

[@MurthyMurthy-wb7nx]

Fitness problems

[@Dave-ji1yp]

TWO SMARTEST MEN IN THE WORLD.

[@omppc]

It was in Grade-8

[@GP-ed1ti]

Charlie keeps SEES CANDY sock high with his appetite for peanut brittle. Always washed down with a Diet Coke.

[@omppc]

Charlie sir invest in India's PLI scheme... My India has a big heart... I have never owned a iphone sir...

[@hih5868]

$$$🍏

[@Satoshi-Nakamoto19]

What 's the other old man chewing ?

[@yasirpanezai5690]

We have to listen to iphone users

[@raklorap]

So he DOES value companies that value diversity, eh? Hypocrite much?

[@helloitsmehb]

Sears used to be a good company too I’ll stick with my indexes. But thanks Charlie for calling me insane

[@ryanc9888]

TSLA is better

[@smadamos1]

🔴🐼

[@YariePoof-rj3jm]

This guy eat more peanuts than he talks

[@kawanljeetchoudhary348]

Keep it up 💪, American citizen ready for pay to trillion of dollars debt 🎉

[@BusinessWolf1]

you don't understand anything.

[@kawanljeetchoudhary348]

@@BusinessWolf1 okay, American thinks is, world is under edge,

[@bighands69]

@@kawanljeetchoudhary348 So you think American citizens are going to pay trillions of dollars of debt to it self. US debt is not the same as a loan promissory debt it is a finance exercise that allows US government to and economy to function. It is a by product of an extraordinary asset base.

[@johnbrown6470]

It's so rich for Munger to talk about how it's dangerous for people to think they are smarter than they are and how they should know the limits of themselves while he designs prison dormitories for university students and has no formal background in architecture or construction.

[@bighands69]

Charlie formal background has been earned through 70 years of development and design experience. Charlie just did not get up one morning and decide to design buildings he has been involved in design for longer than most people have been alive.

[@tonyggir]

I agree with Charlie on not being diversified. I only have 3 stocks. Apple, Meta and Tesla. Up 30% this year Just hold long term

[@lime221-zu8ur]

Why Tesla may I ask? It wasn't even profitable three years ago, and the EV market has yet to mature.

[@lime221-zu8ur]

@Ev $ It has but you simply cannot predict the economics of Tesla in a decade, owing to the fact that the EV market is very young. Who's to say electric vehicles won't just become another commodity and the margins shrink drastically?

[@omppc]

My father got me a samsung sir worth INR 8000 before 2 weeks sir...

[@jimjackson4256]

I won’t be buying any apple products which are overpriced and impossible to repair yourself.

[@bighands69]

But they last and they do work for the average person every day.

[@maalikserebryakov]

@@bighands69if they were more repairable they would last even longer

[@exoprasta]

For the first time Warren looked old

[@yulmp2]

The current crop of iPhones are complete junk.

[@edrodven]

The Oracle has lost his marbles BNSF GEICO and Occidental are far better business, his views are skewed to support the idea of overpriced phones over real business is delusional. The other business are not as speculative and defensive, overpriced phones are not. Consumer has little or no disposable income, these two should retire. Buyer Beware!

[@bighands69]

Apple does not make all its money from selling phones. It makes its money from building its own marketplace that provides services. Apple is more akin to a train network, telecoms company or tv station. The key difference is that apple owns its market place from top to bottom and does this all with very low capital costs and very high capital returns. Most people that buy an apple phone keep it for several years and it is the business that they do on the phone that generates very low cost high margins for apple. It has taken apple a good 20 years to build its market place and its moat is enormous, deep and very rough for passing competitors. None of the other device manufacturers have that market place, google with android has the software end of the game but cannot get to apples level with just that.

[@letitbeai]

If you like sweatshops you go Apple...

[@elilammers3645]

EV is fools gold bud..

[@elilammers3645]

derail 2035 EV da boss said so. john Gotti

[@hangender]

Two boomers thats owning all of gen z combined

[@Tendomcgoobin]

They are silent and greatest generation, not boomers.

[@hangender]

@@Tendomcgoobin gen z also have a Hathaway company? No? Didn't think so

[@le9335]

I think you misread reeser. They’re actually not boomers. They’re older. The generations before are called the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation. They’re both in their 90s. Boomers are like 60-77 age range.

[@le9335]

Just looked. Munger is 99 years old. Which is wild! I think he falls into The Greatest Generation. Don’t hear that everyday haha. Just making it to 99 is crazy to me let alone being that sharp still. Treasures.

[@hiuofwreqc]

God dam they talk slow. This is no different then Biden talking

[@le9335]

They’re in their 90s and still pretty damn sharp and your take away is they talk slow? Ya, no kidding pal, that’s what happens when every person ages. Their hearing probably ain’t very good either. You want them to break dance for you? Dweeb

[@hiuofwreqc]

@@le9335 I don't want them to break dance for me nor do I need to hear their bs on what is a good investment for the future, which they won't be a part of. (no skin in the game) "A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable. That is natural order of things." This is just a ego tour they are on atm.

[@seanconcannon186]

They need more women in their lives. If I was Warren or Charlie, I would be seeing call girls regularly.

[@maalikserebryakov]

Maybe they are But whats the point when you’re 90+ The girls will be disgusted of you, and you yourself won’t enjoy it. Besides being so close to death is a time to focus on the next life, if it exists.

[@paco83s]

Old clowns

[@bighands69]

With hundreds of billions of dollars owning some of the best companies in the world. Tell us how do you become such a clown?

[@maalikserebryakov]

- Shelve stacker from his basement

[@k.t.5405]

Who TF said AAPL was 35% of Berkshire?

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

Munger is wrong about diversification. Invest in the best 3 or 4 companies in each vertical or industry.

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

@@NA-du5vm It is sound advice, I am not as wealthy as Munger but ask any investment advisor or index fund manager.. they will tell you the same. Investing in 3 companies only is extremely dangerous. IF China and the USA get into a shooting war Apple drops 50 percent or more immediately.

[@napoleonbonaparte1260]

You dont have to diversify your money if you know which company is the best one.

[@david9243]

Dont need that if you know what you are doing.

[@Wavyyyaf]

@@david9243 tell that to Ray Dalio

[@le9335]

Seems like he knows what he’s doing lol.

[@elilammers3645]

oil 🛢 moves money faster then EV

[@bighands69]

EV is an amazing development and will be the future but it cannot just magical appear and will need decades to play out.

[@freestylefranc2653]

Time to sell😲🧐📉