Buffett Usually Sells 9 Out Of 10 Stocks That He Holds

Buffett is a proponent of buy and hold for the long term, but when you take a look at what he does, you quickly realize that he might hold to only 1 stock that he buys per decade. In the mean-time, he buy, test and sell all that don't meet his criteria.

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[A.Campbell]

Warren Buffett will never die because he's too cheap to have a funeral

[pieromalutta]

Sempre ben druze Sven, grazie per il servizio

[JourneymanLineman]

Berkshire stocks is a bonus. Their other businesses are their value.

[HoriaIoan]

I am more and more inclined to take Buffett's advice and dolar cost average sp500 index fund VUSA (in Europe) especially when it crashes.

[sdavidleigh]

Great observation Sven. Investing is tricky and we have assumptions that can be entirely wrong.

[daneshp]

It would be great if Sven could share how many "hold forever" long term compounders he has discovered and currently holds in his portfolio (hopefully at least one?). Mohnish Pabrai on many instances has stated that an investment strategy of finding and holding compounders for longer periods is much more effective and efficient than constant buying and selling. He believes it's an approach he should've adopted from the start and is trying to adhere to it. He even cited specific examples of how he missed out big time on the compounding effect by selling too early. That doesn't mean he won't sell any stock (that's an easy excuse one may use to equate it to their own strategies) but the underlying investment philosophy will be about finding those companies that can be held for a while. I've personally found this approach more appealing in theory and effective in practice. But the impact of this approach can only be seen over longer periods (which requires patience) and with the right companies (which requires better research). I can see why it's harder for most "experts" to promote such an approach as they would have a lot less to talk about and sell :).

[fredericp]

If you love your stocks. Keep in mind that they don't love you back!

[Global-livingg]

In the last 10 years buffet has underperformed the market when it comes to his public stock trades, so he's not really a good investor/stock-picker when he's on a level playing field. He underperforms the market like most investors - he's average.

[krystal_clearwater]

" When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." Buffett

Thanks Sven for this one - for me I underscore WHEN - Berkshire's Holding period is Forever only when 1) Outstanding Business AND 2) Outstanding Mgmt. criteria are met.
Too many think once we buy a stock in a great business, the job is done. My 2 cents - that could be lazy passive investing!

[Carl-lmqf]

Long time no Sven! Hope you are doing alright 🙏🏽❤️ Thanks for the video, good to see you back!

[idstersha]

Always appreciate buffets success and never forget his lessons
But times have changed, his stocks aren't the stocks small investors need they are for big whales like Berkshire which is too big now .
The sp500 doesn't lag that far behind now over a decade
And the nazdaq is returning twice as much these days

[cfiifly]

Everything is for sale at the right price… Right? What do you think of setting your desired sale price when you buy, then put in a 60 day limit order for that price. Then evaluate and adjust your limit sale price every month or so… if it spikes it sells.

[sebastianj]

This is why you sell your own most of the stock ??? 🤣🤣🤣 another PH specialist. Why you not comments what you done with your portfolio 🤔

[vyomgor]

A great, myth busting and insightful short video ❤

[JuanBattaglia]

I love your content. You make us think. We should not hold stocks 'forever', but studies sugest that 'low turnover' funds or investors have the greatest returns.

[hyunjinpark]

God, grant us the serenity to hold onto investments that provide value, courage to change the ones that do not, and wisdom to know the difference between two.

[daneshp]

In this video Sven presents snapshots of Buffet's holdings over a period of time to suggest he doesn't "hold" stocks for too long. Now, while he may potentially have a point, I'm afraid this data set in isolation isn't enough to prove it. Assuming this is all Buffet (we know Ted/Todd play a significant role these days and they may be more nimble), this data by itself doesn't say anything about the average holding time of each equity that got replaced. I would be very surprised if the average equity holding time in BRK's portfolio is small (again the stress is on the average and not isolated equities as there may always be exceptions). My point is simple, Sven's validation model adopts a 10yr horizon, which tells me he's comfortable holding an equity for that period unless (a) the story changes or (b) the equity is overvalued and needs to be replaced. I'm hoping there are examples of at least a few companies he's stuck with for reasonably long periods of time (maybe not 10 but something substantial). If not, I find it hard to digest that the investment approach has a long term mindset. Proposing short term entry/exit points and price targets is exactly what analysts do and provide a similar justification for it. I see nothing different here.

[bspiderm]

Hi Sven, can you talk about bonds such as the long term Treasury bond ETF TLT

[Mehrdad]

Appreciate this video. Buffett has also said that he sells when he finds another better option. So that could be the reason of buying new ones too?

[mikkelhansen]

Hi Sven. You say that you are changing holdiong contries for tax bemefit. If you don't mind me asking where are you switching to?