Warren Buffett Offloaded a Chunk of His Biggest Holding. Here's Where the Money Went.

Berkshire Hathaway owns lots of companies outright and stock in many other companies.

Buffett has stepped down as CEO and Greg Abel is in charge now.

Warren Buffett recently stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) , whose investing empire he built over six decades. But even though he has handed the reins to Greg Abel, countless people still want to study the 95-year-old's moves, as he's arguably the modern era's greatest investor.

Before Buffett stepped down at the end of 2025, he -- or possibly his investing lieutenant, Ted Weschler -- had divested much of Berkshire's top stock holding. Let's take a look at that.

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The stock is Apple . As of 2024's end, Berkshire Hathaway owned about 300 million shares of Apple, which was worth about $75 billion and represented about 2% of Apple's value. A year later, after selling shares in three of the next four quarters, Berkshire owned about 228 million shares worth about $62 billion.

It can seem like a really big deal that so many Apple shares were sold, but note that Berkshire still owns roughly 228 million shares. Also, consider that at the end of 2024, Apple shares made up a whopping 28% of the Berkshire portfolio . That's a lot of eggs in one basket! Mere portfolio rebalancing can be the explanation for all the sales. (More recently, Apple shares made up 22% of Berkshire's portfolio.)

So what did Buffett buy? Before stepping down, he opened a position in The New York Times and added to some holdings, such as Chevron and Chubb , while shrinking Berkshire's positions in stocks such as Bank of America .