Warren Buffett beefs up Bank of America stake
Buffett's BofA stake is ballooning
It appears Warren Buffett is becoming more enamored with Bank of America with the shares down over 30 percent this year.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAC | BANK OF AMERICA CORP. | 35.95 | +0.16 | +0.45% |
This week - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday - his Berkshire Hathaway bought about 34 million common shares, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The buying increased from a little over 9 million shares on Tuesday to over 13 million on Wednesday for a price of about $24 per share.
The purchase lifted his stake to slightly over 11 percent, as tracked by Thomson One.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRK.B | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 400.24 | -3.09 | -0.77% |
| D | DOMINION ENERGY INC. | 47.92 | -0.99 | -2.02% |
During the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in May, which was virtual this year for the first time in history, Buffett did not speak of BofA specifically but did say the banking industry was in good shape to weather the pandemic.
"They’re well-capitalized for it. They were reserve building in the first quarter, and they may need to build more reserves. But they are not a primary worry of mine at all. We own a lot of banks. Or, we own a lot of bank stocks" he said according to transcripts.
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The BofA buy follows Berkshire's $9.7 billion purchase of Dominion Energy's storage network earlier this month.
The deal was a fraction of the $125 billion in cash Berkshire held at the end of 2019, as disclosed in the latest Annual Report.
BofA is the second-largest bank in the nation with over $1.8 trillion in assets as of 2019 and the majority of those holdings, over 94 percent, are domestic. The bank has 4,242 U.S. branches.
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| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPM | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 182.89 | +0.10 | +0.05% |
| WFC | WELLS FARGO & CO. | 56.97 | +0.50 | +0.89% |
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Buffett also owns JPMorgan Chase which is the largest U.S. bank with over $2.3 trillion in assets. It has 4,982 U.S. branches.
And the third-largest bank Wells Fargo which has $1.7 trillion in assets and over 5,400 U.S. branches.