Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Unfazed By Trump Tariff-Triggered Market Selloff: Shares Up 9.41% YTD, Adding $87.81 Billion In Investor Wealth In 2025

Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK BRK has outperformed the losses in the S&P 500, while the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ has emerged as the only top 10 billionaire to see a net worth gain on a year-to-date basis in 2025.

What Happened: Shares of Berkshire Hathaway’s class B shares have risen by 9.41% in 2025, being one of the only few S&P 500 components that are still in the green amid the ongoing market selloff. The S&P 500 index, on the other hand, has fallen 13.54% on a year-to-date basis.

While, has been a flurry of speculations over the company’s cash pile, having the liquid form of dollars has helped the company avert losses amid President Donald Trump‘s tariff-fueled crash on Wall Street.

Berkshire Hathaway’s cash and cash equivalents totaled a record $334.2 billion as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2024.

The firm has also added $87.81 billion in investor wealth in 2025 as its market capitalization has risen from $978.19 billion as of Dec. 31, 2024, to $1,066 billion as of Friday, April 4.

Buffett is also among the only one of the top 10 billionaires, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, to witness a net worth gain of $12.7 billion in 2025.

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Why It Matters: While Apple Inc. AAPL is the largest part of Berkshire’s portfolio, it is well diversified across manufacturing, energy, and retail businesses.

American Express Co. AXP, Bank of America Corp. BAC, Coca-Cola Co. KO, Chevron Corp. CVX, and Occidental Petroleum Corp. OXY are a few of the other top holdings of the firm.

Berkshire is also one of the few firms that is trading above its 200-day simple moving average of $462.38 apiece. With a relative strength index of 38.2, it is in the neutral zone.

Its MACD line of +4.51 showed that its 12-period exponential moving average is above the 26-period EMA, indicating a bullish trend. However, the histogram was negative at -4.81, meaning that the MACD line was falling further below the signal line. This depicts that the bearish momentum is increasing amid the bullish trend.

Benzinga Edge Stock Rankings indicate Berkshire has a negative price trend over the short term but a positive trend over the long and medium term. Its momentum ranking was solid at the 88.06th percentile, and its value ranking was also stronger. Further fundamental details about the growth rankings are available here.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF QQQ, which track the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq 100 index, respectively, declined in premarket on Monday. The SPY was down 2.10% to $494.66, while the QQQ declined 2.24% to $413.21, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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