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They left the tech aisle with slightly fewer apples.

Here’s what Berkshire Hathaway did in Q4, straight from its 13F filing (aka: “Here’s what we bought and sold, don’t freak out”).

Buffett added 5.07 million shares of New York Times. $NYT ( ▲ 1.99% )

Price tag? $351.7M.

No toe-dips here. Just straight cannonballs.

Why it’s interesting:

This isn’t Buffett buying hype. This is Buffett buying habit-forming revenue.

Think: “People cancel Netflix before they cancel news.”

Buffett also bulked up on some old favorites:

Energy. Insurance. Pizza.

Sounds more like a dad’s weekend than a solid portfolio. But zoom out and you’ll see the pattern:

Buffett isn’t chasing AI buzzwords.

He’s stacking businesses that throw off predictable cash like a broken ATM.

Yes, he reduced Apple. $AAPL ( ▲ 0.18% )

Shares dropped from 238.2M → 227.9M.

But here’s the thing:

Even after trimming, Apple is still Berkshire’s largest holding.

And the value of the stake?

Up to $62B.

So Buffett technically sold some shares…

…but the position is worth more than before.

That’s like selling 10% of your house and somehow ending up richer.

Retail investors: don’t misread trims as breakups.
Sometimes it’s just portfolio gardening.

He reduced Bank of America $BAC ( ▲ 1.18% ) from 548.1M shares to 517.3M.

Still a monster position at $23.5B.

Not a divorce. More like switching from supersized to large.

Banks are cyclical. Buffett adjusts sizing when risk/reward shifts.

Simple as that.

Amazon $AMZN ( ▲ 1.81% ) went from 10M shares to 2.28M.

That’s not trimming. That’s proper decluttering.

Compared to the rest of Berkshire’s portfolio, Amazon is now a rounding error.

Buffett’s moves scream three things:

Energy, insurance, subscriptions, pizza.
All boring. All profitable.

Buffett has openly said he built his investing philosophy after reading The Intelligent Investor (which you can read here) — and filings like this are that philosophy in action.

Apple remains king of the portfolio.
But concentration risk? Slightly dialed down.

Berkshire has mountains of cash.
When Buffett adjusts positions, he’s positioning for flexibility — not panic.

He’s not reacting.

He’s calibrating.

If anything, this filing looks less like “new strategy”…

…and more like “fine-tuning the empire.”

Boring businesses. Big cash flow. Light portfolio pruning.

Classic Buffett.

Berkshire added to Chevron, Chubb, and Domino's Pizza. That’s a clear tilt toward businesses with strong free cash flow, pricing power, defensive demand.

📌 Action: Increase exposure to high-FCF sectors (energy, insurance, consumer staples). Allocate 5–15% of your portfolio toward cash-generating “boring compounders.” Reinvest dividends automatically. Boring scales quietly.

Berkshire trimmed Apple, but it’s still the largest holding at ~$62B. That’s textbook portfolio discipline. Reduce size, maintain conviction, lower risk.

📌 Action: If any single stock is >25–30% of your portfolio, consider trimming 5–10% and redeploy into underweighted sectors. Do this quarterly. Mechanical > emotional. Trim strength. Don’t panic sell.

Berkshire initiated a $351M position in New York Times. This signals appetite for recurring revenue, high retention, digital subscription growth.

📌 Action: Screen for companies with >70% recurring revenue and rising ARPU. Build a 3–5 stock basket of subscription-based businesses and hold long term. Predictable revenue = smoother compounding.

Meta just walked into Nvidia’s store…

…and said:

“Yeah, we’ll take the whole aisle.”

Nvidia and Meta just announced a multi-year AI infrastructure partnership.

Meta is doubling down on Nvidia hardware like it’s Costco bulk-buy season.

After-hours reaction:

Nothing crazy.
But the implications? Big.

(Nvidia was today’s premium analysis stock. We took a look at this and whether supply constraints mean Nvidia is worth taking out of your portfolio. Take a look here)

Meta is upgrading its AI factory.

And Nvidia is supplying the machinery.

Here’s the breakdown:

NVIDIA Grace CPU is getting deployed at scale inside Meta’s data centers.

This is Nvidia’s first major Grace-only deployment.

That’s like someone finally buying the side dish Nvidia’s been hyping for two years.

Why it matters:

They want the whole meal, not just the fries.

Meta is also preparing to roll out Nvidia’s upcoming Vera CPUs next year at scale.

Future-proofing the AI empire.

Think of this as Meta pre-ordering the next iPhone…
Before anyone’s even seen it.

Meta is adding more of Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet to boost network speed and efficiency.

Because here’s the dirty secret of AI:

It’s not just about chips.
It’s about moving data between chips.

If GPUs are Ferraris, networking is the highway.

And Nvidia wants to own the highway too.

Meta is also using Nvidia’s Confidential Computing for WhatsApp.

That allows AI features while keeping user data protected.

In theory, that means:

(Yes, privacy investors, you can exhale.)

Meta will use Nvidia’s GB300 systems in its data centers and lean on Nvidia’s cloud partners to simplify operations.

Meta is building AI clusters so powerful they could probably simulate your next three bad trades.

This isn’t just a hardware order.

This is deep co-design.

Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) basically said: We’re integrating CPUs, GPUs, networking, and software into Meta’s infrastructure.

That’s Nvidia embedding itself directly into Meta’s AI brain.

The deeper Nvidia goes into hyperscaler infrastructure, the stickier the revenue becomes.

And that’s what Wall Street really cares about.

Let’s zoom out.

Meta is one of the largest AI infrastructure spenders on the planet.

If Meta:

That means AI capex isn’t slowing down.

The narrative that hyperscalers might cut AI spending?

This announcement just punched that theory in the face.

Meta runs:

To compete in AI, Meta needs:

This partnership ensures:

In AI, whoever trains fastest wins.

Meta doesn’t want to bring a knife to a GPU fight.

Nvidia is no longer just selling GPUs.

It’s becoming:

And Meta is building toward what Zuckerberg calls “personal superintelligence.”

Which is either:

Possibly both.

ServiceNow just did something Wall Street loves more than rate cuts and stock splits…

The execs said:
“Actually… never mind. We’re not selling.”

Yep.

ServiceNow $NOW ( ▲ 1.79% ) shares popped early Tuesday after multiple top dogs canceled their future stock sale plans.

And not just random VPs either.

We’re talking:

That’s not a coincidence.

That’s a group chat decision.

When executives plan to sell shares, investors squint.

When they cancel those sales? Investors lean in.

Because insider selling can mean a million things:

But insider buying?

That usually means one thing:

“I think this thing is going higher.”

McDermott didn’t just cancel a sale.

He announced a plan to buy $3 million worth of stock at market prices on February 27.

Not options.
Not discounted shares.
Not “performance-based magic stock.”

Cold. Hard. Open-market buying.

That’s the equivalent of the head chef eating his own cooking in front of the restaurant.

The filing notes this purchase is happening at the earliest date allowed under Section 16 short-swing rules.

What are the rules?

Execs can’t buy and flip shares within six months without triggering regulatory headaches.

So this isn’t a quick trade.

It’s structured to avoid legal issues — which makes it feel more intentional, less tactical.

When multiple execs cancel planned sales + the CEO commits fresh capital?

The signal reads like: “We’re not cashing out.
We’re strapping in.”

And in a market obsessed with AI infrastructure, enterprise automation, and mission-critical software, that narrative matters.

ServiceNow isn’t some speculative meme rocket.

It’s the boring-but-powerful workflow engine behind huge enterprises.

Which is exactly the kind of stock where insider alignment matters more than hype.

Let’s be clear:

One insider buy does not equal guaranteed moon mission.

But clusters of executive behavior? That’s where things get interesting.

Institutional investors track insider transactions like hawks.

Because when leadership aligns incentives with shareholders, it reduces one key risk:

“Are they playing the same game as us?”

Right now, it looks like yes.

Markets run on earnings. But they move on confidence.

And nothing screams confidence like:

“I’m putting $3M of my own money into this.”

Especially after voluntarily canceling stock sale plans.

When the captain buys more tickets for the cruise, passengers feel better about the route.