Warren Buffett Owns 2 S&P 500 Index Funds. They Could Soar 153%, According to a Top Wall Street Analyst

Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company with a $296 billion portfolio of publicly traded stocks and securities, in addition to several wholly owned subsidiaries. It also has a $325 billion pile of cash, which Buffett and his team can deploy when they find new opportunities. Since Buffett became CEO in 1965, Berkshire stock has delivered a compound annual return of 19.8%, crushing the average annual gain of 10.4% in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) over the same period. Buffett is a full-time investing professional, so he knows that the average retail investor would struggle to replicate his success. That's why he often recommends they buy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead of picking individual stocks. Berkshire actually holds two of them in its portfolio: The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO), and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY).Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool