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At a time when market volatility is rearing its ugly head again, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a great place to find solid investments. Berkshire held a stock portfolio worth $271 billion at the end of 2024.
Although growth stocks have a place in many portfolios, even young, risk-tolerant investors should own some long-term value stocks. These stocks that you can count on give you the flexibility to invest some of your other funds in higher-risk, higher-growth potential stocks, since they minimize the overall risk of your entire portfolio.
American Express (AXP) reachead $276 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a -1.17% change compared to its last close.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amex GBT Receives Credit Rating Upgrade; Moody's Upgrades the Company to B1.
Earlier this year, American Express (AXP 0.44%) shares soared, building on a big 2024, when shares rose 58%. At their highest point so far in 2025, shares traded at $326.27.
When it comes to billionaire money managers, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 0.90%) (BRK.B 0.84%) Warren Buffett is in a class of his own. Since taking over as Berkshire's CEO six decades ago, he's overseen a jaw-dropping aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) of better than 6,321,000%, as of the closing bell on March 21.
Three-thousand dollars might not seem like enough cash to get started in the stock market, since many of the top stocks cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per share. But with commission-free platforms and fractional trades, it's never been easier for retail investors to build up a diversified portfolio of evergreen stocks with a modest investment.
Warren Buffett would probably say Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 0.90%) (BRK.B 0.84%) portfolio is highly diversified. It currently owns 44 different publicly traded stocks.
After almost 15 years of a low-interest rate environment, which changed drastically after inflation spiraled to 9.1% in 2022, the Federal Reserve was forced to raise rates to 5.25% before dropping them back to the 4.25% level last year.
Economic uncertainty hasn't seemed to have weighed on American Express (AXP -0.20%). The company recently announced a 17% increase to its quarterly dividend, lifting the payout from $0.70 to $0.82 per share.