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Warren Buffett is not done selling Bank of America . Berkshire Hathaway shed a total of 19.2 million BofA shares on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for almost $779 million at an average selling price of $40.52 per share, according to a new regulatory filing. The conglomerate has now been offloading the bank stock for 12 consecutive days with total sales now exceeding $3.8 billion. Its remaining 942.4 million shares have a market value of $37.2 billion at Thursday's close of $39.50. The bank stock has dropped 5.2% so far this week, going as low as $38.98 in Thursday's trading as recession fears plague the financial sector.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, BofA Organizations: Berkshire, of America, Bank of America, Apple, American Express Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Berkshire

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024. Berkshire Hathaway's selling streak in its big Bank of America stake has extended to nine straight days, suggesting that Warren Buffett is not just trimming the longtime holding. The Omaha-based conglomerate sold a total of 18.4 million shares of the bank from Thursday to Monday for $767 million at an average price of $41.65, a new regulatory filing late Monday revealed. Over the past nine trading sessions, Berkshire has cut its stake by 71.2 million shares with just over $3 billion of sales. After the selling spree, Berkshire still owns 961.6 million shares of BofA with a market value of $39.5 billion.

Persons: Warren Buffett Organizations: Berkshire, of America, Apple, Express Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Omaha, Berkshire

Berkshire Hathaway dumped more Bank of America shares this week, making it six straight trading days that Warren Buffett's conglomerate has reduced its stake in the bank. Over the last six trading sessions, Berkshire has unloaded 52.8 million Bank of America shares worth $2.3 billion, reducing the stake to 12.5%. Berkshire still owns 980.1 million Bank of America shares with a market value of $41.3 billion, a distant second to its $172.5 billion holding in Apple. The bank stock is up more than 25% in 2024, compared to almost 14% for the S&P 500. It marked the first time since the fourth quarter of 2019 that Berkshire cut its Bank of America stake.

Persons: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren, Buffett, Goldman Sachs, Wells, Brian Moynihan Organizations: of America, Berkshire, Oracle, Omaha, Bank of America, JPMorgan, U.S . Bancorp Locations: The Omaha , Nebraska, Berkshire, Apple . Berkshire, Charlotte, Wells Fargo, U.S

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024. Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its gigantic Bank of America holding for the first time in four and a half years following the bank's strong 2024 run. Warren Buffett's conglomerate sold 33.9 million shares of Bank of America shares for almost $1.5 billion in separate sales on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at an average selling price of $43.56, a regulatory filing showed. Still, Bank of America remains Berkshire's second largest equity position after Apple, holding 999 million shares with a market value of almost $43 billion. Berkshire could be taking some profits as Bank of America has rallied 27.4% so far this year to its highest levels since March 2022.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's, Buffett Organizations: Berkshire, of America, Bank of America, Apple, America's Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Berkshire, Omaha

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway carried on its selling streak for HP , dumping shares of the printer and PC maker for nine straight days and reducing its stake to 10.2%. The conglomerate sold more than 5.1 million shares for over $132 million on Thursday through Monday, according to a regulatory filing released Monday night. Over the nine straight days of selling, Berkshire has shed 14.5 million shares for almost $381 million. Adding in other days of sales in mid-September, Berkshire has dropped a total of 20.0 million shares for $539.5 million, an average selling price of $26.93. Berkshire still holds 100.9 million shares, valued at $2.6 billion at Monday's close of $25.67.

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Berkshire Hathaway sold a portion of U.S. Bancorp , a bank stock that the conglomerate has held since late 2007, a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed. The conglomerate reported owning 52.5 million shares of U.S. Bancorp as of Oct. 31, roughly 3.5% of the bank's outstanding shares, the filing showed. The filing indicates that Berkshire has sold 84.9 million shares, currently valued at $3.8 billion. Buffett first bought 23.3 million shares of U.S. Bancorp in the fourth quarter of 2007 . The conglomerate still owned a sizable stake in Bank of New York Mellon at the end of the second quarter.

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