{"id":138395,"date":"2026-02-19T04:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138395\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:18:24","slug":"berkshire-cuts-amazon-stake-makes-bet-on-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138395\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Cuts Amazon Stake, Makes Bet on New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Bloomberg) &#8212; Berkshire Hathaway Inc. slashed its holding in Amazon.com Inc. by more than 75% in the fourth quarter, while also building a stake in the New York Times Co. \u2014 Warren Buffett\u2019s last new bet as chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The conglomerate acquired 5.1 million shares of the media publishing company in the three months through December, a stake worth $351.7 million at year-end, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Berkshire first bought a stake in Amazon in 2019. Buffett, 95, said at the time that despite his historical aversion to technology stocks, he\u2019d been \u201can idiot for not buying\u201d the online retail giant\u2019s shares sooner. It now owns roughly 2.3 million Amazon shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The New York Times rose 1.8% to $75.39 in early trading Wednesday at 8:33 a.m. in New York. Amazon advanced 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4b139faf78e70112d9d095e54f795717.jpeg\" alt=\"WATCH: Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Amazon.com Inc. by more than 75% in the fourth quarter. Abeer Abu Omar reports.Source: Bloomberg\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> WATCH: Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Amazon.com Inc. by more than 75% in the fourth quarter. Abeer Abu Omar reports.Source: Bloomberg      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Berkshire continued trimming its stakes in Bank of America Corp. and Apple Inc. during the fourth quarter, bringing them to 7.1% and 1.5%, respectively. Buffett started cutting those positions in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">He also increased Berkshire\u2019s stakes in oil producer Chevron Corp. and insurance firm Chubb Ltd. during the period, to 6.5% and 8.7%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Berkshire unveiled its initial investment in Chubb in May 2024, after secretly building it the previous year. Chubb\u2019s shares rose roughly 11% over the fourth quarter after a trade publication reported that the firm made an informal approach to buy American International Group Inc. The company denied that any offer was made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Buffett, who stepped down as CEO on Dec. 31, appeared to be back on the hunt for purchases in recent quarters, reaching a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum Corp.\u2019s petrochemical business for $9.7 billion and building a $5.6 billion stake in Google parent Alphabet Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Updates with share prices in fourth paragraph.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">\u00a92026 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) &#8212; Berkshire Hathaway Inc. slashed its holding in Amazon.com Inc. by more than 75% in the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1909,58618,51507,27337,5879,9,11,10,51513],"class_list":["post-138395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-berkshire","tag-berkshire-hathaway","tag-bloomberg","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}