If You Had Invested $10,000 in This Top Warren Buffett Stock 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

If You Had Invested $10,000 in This Top Warren Buffett Stock 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today Neil Patel, The Motley Fool Sun, June 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM GMT+2 2 min read BRK-B NVDA AAPL INTC Besides its wholly owned operating businesses, Berkshire Hathaway is known for its huge $327 billion public equities portfolio. The conglomerate owns many individual stocks, but one stands out for its massive financial impact in recent times. If you had invested $10,000 in this top Warren Buffett stock 10 years ago, here's how much you'd have today.

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Even after sizable share sales, Berkshire has a 1. 6% stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) valued at $71 billion right now. In the past 10 years, this "Magnificent Seven" stock has generated a total return of 1,300% (as of June 4), turning $10,000 into $139,630 today.

Having purchased its first Apple shares in the first quarter of 2016, Berkshire has captured a phenomenal gain on this investment. Buffett believes Apple is a wonderful company, which isn't a surprising conclusion given its history of product and service innovation, pricing power, and tremendous profits. Exactly a decade ago, Apple looked like a value stock , trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.

9. That multiple has expanded by 246% since then to 37. 7, driven by robust financial performance that led to a major improvement in market sentiment.

Prospective investors have no margin of safety. The valuation implies lofty expectations for a company that won't report the same growth it did in the past. Should you buy stock in Apple right now?

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