Berkshire's Abel-Era 13F Tripled Alphabet and Dumped Visa
Greg Abel's first Berkshire 13F bought $17 billion of Alphabet, doubled down on Delta, and walked out of Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, UnitedHealth and Domino's.
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Greg Abel's first Berkshire 13F bought $17 billion of Alphabet, doubled down on Delta, and walked out of Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, UnitedHealth and Domino's.
Cerebras fell about ten percent Friday as Nvidia dropped 4.4 percent and the semis index lost four — the slide is now a session not a guess.
Abel-era Berkshire kept the Alphabet headline and dumped Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, UnitedHealth, and Domino's — the exits show whether the new CEO will hold the line.
Two distinct forces hit the market at once — oil-driven yields repriced bonds and the AI-momentum trade lost four percent on semis.
Abel tripled Alphabet, added Delta, opened Macy's, and exited five names — and left the Apple position alone.
Abel's first 13F added about 40 million Delta shares — an airline bet against a Hormuz disruption that just produced the largest weekly oil gain of the Iran war.
A bad Day 2 tape did not edit the S-1, and the S-1 is still the durable Cerebras fact.
Berkshire's new CEO has now made decisions on paper; the annual letter that explains them is still unwritten.