The first stock with a high dividend yield that Warren Buffett likes is Coca-Cola. Coke is a classic Warren Buffett company. It has a wide economic moat thanks to its strong brand and significant cost advantages.
Each stock you invest in should take up, at most, 3.33% of your portfolio. “If each stock generates around $400 in dividend income per year, 30 of each will generate $12,000 a year or $1,000 per month.”
Top Warren Buffett Stocks
Coca-Cola (KO), 400 million. Kraft Heinz (KHC), 325.6 million. Apple (AAPL), 300 million. Occidental Petroleum (OXY), 264.3 million.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust's top holdings are Microsoft Corporation (US:MSFT) , Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (US:BRK.B) , Waste Management, Inc. (US:WM) , Canadian National Railway Company (US:CNI) , and Caterpillar Inc. (US:CAT) .
Despite being a large, mature, and stable company, Berkshire Hathaway does not pay dividends to its investors. Instead, the company chooses to reinvest retained earnings into new projects, investments, and acquisitions.
Tesla has never declared dividends on our common stock. We intend on retaining all future earnings to finance future growth and therefore, do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. When was Tesla's initial public offering (IPO)? Tesla's initial public offering was on June 29, 2010.
This is why he believes Berkshire shareholders are better served when he retains all the company's earnings and reinvests it rather than paying it out as dividends.
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock.
With a forward annual dividend rate of $3.00 per share, Gates can expect to earn $109,498,791.00 over the next 12 months from his Microsoft holdings. The company has a 19-year track record of dividend growth and a 5-year dividend growth rate (CAGR) of 10.23%.
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Berkshire Hathaway differs from other investment firms, like hedge funds. Anyone can invest in Berkshire Hathaway if they have enough money to buy at least one Class B share (more than $450 in late 2024).
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As of the end of the third quarter, the Gates Foundation trust fund held about 22 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway. Those shares are worth about $10 billion as of this writing.
To have a perfect portfolio to generate $1000/month in dividends, one should have at least 30 stocks in at least 10 different sectors. No stock should not be more than 3.33% of your portfolio. If each stock generates around $400 in dividend income per year, 30 of each will generate $12,000 a year or $1000/month.
Apple. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has ranked as the largest holding in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio for several years. The iPhone maker is still at the top early in the new year. Berkshire owns 300 million shares of Apple worth around $73.2 billion, representing 24.8% of its total holdings.
Mark Zuckerberg currently owns a total of 1 stock. Mark Zuckerberg owns 394,265 shares of Meta Platforms Inc (META) as of January 8, 2025, with a value of $243 Million.
Bill Gates Walmart Inc
Bill Gates's position in Walmart is currently worth $834 Million. That's 1.98% of their equity portfolio (8th largest holding). The first Walmart trade was made in Q2 2006. Since then Bill Gates bought shares nine more times and sold shares on five occasions.