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Q2 13F season: Berkshire just ended a 14-quarter selling streak — is "smart money" turning bullish again?

Berkshire disclosed roughly $19.8bn in net equity purchases for Q2 — its first net-buying quarter since Q4 2022. The headline piece: a $10bn direct private placement into Alphabet, which now sits among Berkshire's top five holdings alongside Apple, American Express, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola. Apple still anchors the book at ~$58bn, roughly 22% of the portfolio.

Cash didn't get torched to do it — reserves dipped from ~$397bn to ~$365bn, still a war chest by any normal standard. Layer in the $6.8bn all-cash acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and $4.5bn in buybacks (Berkshire's biggest in five years), and this reads less like caution easing and more like Greg Abel — now a full quarter into sole leadership — deliberately signaling he'll deploy capital differently than Buffett's late-era hoarding.

Zoom out and the pattern isn't unique to Omaha. Across this week's broader 13F wave, megacap AI infrastructure names (Alphabet, Broadcom, Nvidia) and GLP-1 healthcare exposure (Eli Lilly) keep showing up as consensus adds across multi-strategy funds — suggesting institutional conviction is concentrating, not broadening.

Worth sitting with: does Berkshire buying $10bn of Alphabet directly — not through the open market — really count as the same bullish signal as everyone else's public buying, or is it a private deal riding on the coattails of a hot theme?

Q2 13F Disclosures: What Is 'Smart Money' Actually Buying?

13F season, last window. Berkshire disclosed nearly $20bn of net equity purchases in Q2 — ending 14 straight quarters of net selling — roughly $10bn of it Alphabet; the full list lands by week's end. Nvidia's own filing is the other one to watch, given the circular-trading argument. Citi's book crossed $300bn with semiconductor additions including Micron and AMD. Alphabet −0.18% Wednesday, Nvidia +3.03%. Would you follow the institutional playbook — and which side, Buffett's Alphabet bet or Nvidia's supply chain wager?

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moxieoo
08-14
moxieoo
$10bn via private placement is bullish enough to me. Better terms matter more than optics here — bigger tell is how Abel uses the other $365bn

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