Geico, and pension plans of other Berkshire Hathaway units bought nearly $30 million of shares of domain-name registry firm VeriSign.

Also in the second quarter of this year, Berkshire Hathaway added beauty retailer Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) to its portfolio. However, in the following three months, the fund disposed of almost the entire position by selling 665,903 shares.

Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) has been stockpiling cash all year. At the end of the third quarter of 2024, Berkshire had over $320 billion of cash and short-term Treasury bills.

With a market capitalization of $49.4 billion, Nubank parent company, Nu Holdings (NU) has emerged as a disruptive force in Latin American banking. It operates a digital banking platform, providing a wide range of financial products such as no-fee credit cards,