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Berkshire Hathaway Holdings, Q2 2026: 29 Stocks That Behave Like 8.6

The document behind every search for "Warren Buffett's portfolio" is Berkshire Hathaway's Form 13F. The one for 30 June 2026, filed 14 August, lists 29 US-listed positions worth $299.3 billion. Weighted by value they behave like 8.6 equal holdings; the top ten are 88.5%. What changed against the March filing, share by share, and what a 13F cannot tell you.

The measured figures

The funds this essay discusses, as their latest SEC Form N-PORT filings measure them. The essay's own figures date from when it was written; these update with every filing.

FundReportedBehaves likeOverstated
VOO 512 51.6 9.9×
QQQ 103 34.1 3×
SMH 25 13.9 1.8×
XLK 77 16.3 4.7×
Held togetherOverlapSharedCombined
QQQ + VOO 54.46% 88 44.2
SMH + VOO 19.21% 19 30.9
VOO + XLK 37.22% 69 29
QQQ + SMH 36.4% 19 25.6

“Behaves like” is the effective holding count: how many equally weighted positions would give the same concentration. Overlap is the sum, over securities both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Computed from SEC Form N-PORT, as of 2026-06-30 . The full dataset covers every fund measured, and the calculator runs this for any combination.

The short version

  • Berkshire Hathaway's Form 13F for the quarter ending 2026-06-30 (filed 2026-08-14) reports 29 US-listed positions worth $299.25 billion. The March filing reported 29 positions worth $263.10 billion; the difference is mostly price.
  • Apple is 22.0%, American Express 17.1%, Coca-Cola 10.9%. The two Alphabet share classes together are 12.6%, Bank of America 9.2%. The top ten are 88.5% of the reported value and the list behaves like 8.6 equally weighted holdings — more concentrated than SMH (26 holdings, behaves like 13.9) or XLK (78, behaves like 16.3).
  • Share counts changed in 13 positions. The largest by value: Alphabet Class A +45.2% (54.2 million to 78.8 million shares) and Class C +658% (3.6 million to 27.2 million); Bank of America −5.9%; Delta Air Lines +44.0%; Kroger −22.0%; Capital One −58.0%; Nucor −52.5%. One position was closed (Constellation Brands, 0.04%) and one opened (D.R. Horton, 3,564 shares — a rounding error at this scale).
  • Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Occidental, Chubb, Moody's and Kraft Heinz did not move by a single share.
  • A 13F is not a portfolio. It omits everything that is not a US-listed security: Berkshire's Japanese trading-house stakes, its wholly owned operating businesses, its Treasury bills and cash, and any trade after 30 June. It is filed by the registrant; it does not say which of Berkshire's investment managers made any decision.

What the filing reports

Source: Form 13F-HR, accession 0001193125-26-352200, period 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-14. Values in US dollars as filed; weights are each position's share of the total reported value. Shares compared line by line, by CUSIP, with the filing for 2026-03-31.

# Issuer Class Weight Value Shares Shares vs Q1
1 Apple Common 22.04% $65.95B 227,917,808 —
2 American Express Common 17.14% $51.28B 151,610,700 —
3 Coca-Cola Common 10.86% $32.51B 400,000,000 —
4 Alphabet Class A 9.41% $28.16B 78,791,167 +45.2%
5 Bank of America Common 9.20% $27.54B 483,394,015 −5.9%
6 Chevron Common 4.67% $13.99B 84,375,856 —
7 Occidental Petroleum Common 4.30% $12.87B 264,941,431 —
8 Chubb Common 3.90% $11.67B 34,249,183 —
9 Moody's Common 3.73% $11.17B 24,669,778 —
10 Alphabet Class C 3.21% $9.61B 27,188,433 +658.3%
11 Kraft Heinz Common 2.57% $7.69B 325,634,818 —
12 DaVita Common 2.15% $6.43B 28,880,209 −4.1%
13 Delta Air Lines Common 1.79% $5.37B 57,320,000 +44.0%
14 SiriusXM Common 1.23% $3.69B 124,807,117 —
15 VeriSign Common 0.76% $2.26B 8,989,880 —
16 Kroger Common 0.72% $2.17B 39,000,000 −22.0%
17 Ally Financial Common 0.41% $1.24B 27,000,000 −6.9%
18 Lennar Class A 0.40% $1.19B 13,111,741 +29.8%
19 Liberty Live Series C 0.37% $1.12B 10,587,143 —
20 New York Times Class A 0.37% $1.10B 15,700,000 +3.7%
21 Capital One Common 0.20% $0.60B 3,000,000 −58.0%
22 Liberty Live Series A 0.17% $0.50B 4,986,588 —
23 Louisiana-Pacific Common 0.15% $0.45B 5,664,793 —
24 Nucor Common 0.14% $0.41B 1,857,752 −52.5%
25 Macy's Common 0.06% $0.17B 7,347,426 +141.8%
26 NVR Common 0.03% $0.08B 11,112 —
27 Lennar Class B 0.01% $0.03B 298,117 +25.4%
28 Jefferies Financial Common 0.01% $0.02B 433,558 —
29 D.R. Horton Common 0.00% $0.6M 3,564 new

Closed since March: Constellation Brands Class A (632,890 shares, 0.04% of the March filing).

How concentrated 8.6 is

Effective holdings is one divided by the sum of squared weights — the number of equal-sized positions that would give the same concentration. It is the measure this site applies to every fund from its N-PORT filing, and it applies to a 13F information table in exactly the same way.

Portfolio Reported holdings Behaves like Top ten
Berkshire Hathaway 13F, 2026-06-30 29 8.6 88.5%
Berkshire Hathaway 13F, 2026-03-31 29 8.4 90.7%
SMH (VanEck Semiconductor) 26 13.9 70.2%
XLK (Technology Select Sector) 78 16.3 64.5%
QQQ 105 34.2 45.0%
VOO 513 51.5 36.4%

Five positions — Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, the two Alphabet classes together, and Bank of America — are 71.9% of the reported value. That is why the list behaves like fewer than nine holdings although it has 29 lines. The quarter's changes moved the figure from 8.4 to 8.6, marginally less concentrated, because value was added to Alphabet (the fourth and tenth lines) rather than to the top three.

What moved, and what did not

Read the share column, not the value column: a value that rises with an unchanged share count is a price move, not a purchase.

  • Added: Alphabet Class A +24.5 million shares and Class C +23.6 million shares; Delta +17.5 million; Lennar A +3.0 million; Macy's +4.3 million; New York Times +0.55 million; D.R. Horton opened at 3,564 shares.
  • Reduced: Bank of America −30.2 million shares; Kroger −11.0 million; Capital One −4.15 million; Nucor −2.05 million; Ally −2.0 million; DaVita −1.2 million.
  • Unchanged: the top three, Chevron, Occidental, Chubb, Moody's, Kraft Heinz, SiriusXM, VeriSign, both Liberty Live series, Louisiana-Pacific, NVR, Jefferies.

Total reported value rose $36.2 billion (+13.7%) between the two filings. The net share activity above is small next to that; most of the increase is the prices of positions that did not change.

What a 13F cannot tell you

  • It is US-listed long positions only. Berkshire's stakes in the five Japanese trading houses, held on the Tokyo exchange, are not in it. Neither are its wholly owned businesses (insurance, railroad, energy, manufacturing), which are most of Berkshire, nor its Treasury bills and cash, which appear on Berkshire's balance sheet and not on any 13F. The 13F is a slice, not the whole.
  • It is 45 days late by design and describes 30 June. Anything traded in July, August or September is not here.
  • It does not name a decision-maker. Berkshire has more than one investment manager; the filing is the registrant's. Calling it one person's portfolio adds a claim the document does not make, which is why this site does not.
  • Confidential treatment can hold a position back from a 13F with SEC permission; if one was withheld this quarter it would appear in a later amendment. We have not checked for amendments after 2026-08-14.

The full record, including the March filing and every change, is at /managers/berkshire-hathaway-inc-1067983/ and as JSON at /data/13f/1067983.json. The same treatment for 23 other registrants — Renaissance Technologies, Bridgewater, Citadel, Pershing Square and others — is at /managers/.