Warren Buffett's company reveals new investments in Nucor, UnitedHealth
and two big homebuilders
[August 15, 2025] By
JOSH FUNK
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway revealed four new investments
Thursday in steelmaker Nucor, insurer UnitedHealth and two of the
nation's biggest homebuilders — Lennar and DR Horton — but it's not
clear if the investments are big enough to ensure that legendary
investor Warren Buffett handled them.
Buffett, who plans to retire as CEO at the end of the year after six
decades of building Berkshire, handles all of the conglomerate's biggest
investments worth $1 billion or more. Three of the new investments
disclosed Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission are worth less than that, so they could be the ideas of one
of Berkshire's two other investment managers.
But Berkshire’s new UnitedHealth stake that was also revealed Thursday
was worth $1.57 billion, so that one could be big enough to be Buffett’s
handiwork. Berkshire got permission from the SEC to keep the other three
investments confidential earlier this year while it built those stakes,
but it apparently bought nearly 5 million UnitedHealth shares just in
the second quarter. That stock jumped nearly 8% in aftermarket trading.
Berkshire's filings simply offer a snapshot of its $258 billion
portfolio at the end of the second quarters. Many investors comb through
Berkshire's filings every quarter because they like to follow Buffett's
moves. His record of trouncing the S&P 500 for decades has inspired
legions of followers.
The filing doesn't make clear who at Berkshire handled each investment.
Besides Buffett, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs also pick stocks, but they
generally handle smaller portfolios and Combs also serves as Geico's
CEO. But Buffett has had a hard time finding stocks or any other
investments in recent years that he wants to invest much of Berkshire's
$344 billion cash in.
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Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an
interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to
the Closing Bell," May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik,
File)
 Berkshire's Nucor stake of 6.6
million shares was the biggest new investment worth roughly $857
million at the end of the quarter. Shares of that company rose more
than 6% in extended after-hours trading.
The Lennar investment was worth nearly $800 million. While the DR
Horton stake was much smaller worth $191.5 million. Those companies'
stocks also saw gains in late trading
Buffett already knows quite a lot about the home building business
because Berkshire owns the nation's largest manufactured
homebuilder, Clayton Homes.
Besides stocks, Berkshire owns dozens of companies in a variety of
industries including Geico insurance, BNSF railroad, several major
utilities and an assortment of manufacturing and retail companies.
The Omaha, Nebraska-based company's holdings include many well-known
brands like See's Candy and Dairy Queen.
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