Buffett's biggest holdings include familiar names such as Apple and American Express. The top five ranking as 2025 begins has changed a little since one year ago. Two of Buffett's top stocks especially stand out as good picks right now.

Warren Buffett is rightfully considered one of the greatest investors of our time. Over 60 years of running Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B) has produced returns twice those of the S&P 500.

We recently published a list of Warren Buffett’s 10 New Stock Picks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) stands against other Warren Buffett’s new stock picks.

Another recent buy for Berkshire was an addition to its Sirius XM Holdings ( SIRI 1.18%) stake. Berkshire has been invested in Sirius' Liberty Media tracking stock since 2016, but increased its stake in Sirius after its simplification merger with the tracking stock this past September.

Together with the 139,930 Verisign shares purchased earlier in December, Buffett has now increased his stake in the business to roughly 13.3 million shares in total. The stock is trading at an attractive forward price-to-earnings (PE) ratio of 22.97, and readers should note that the company’s last quarterly report included a strong earnings beat.

The US government has sued a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, accusing it of pushing borrowers into unaffordable loans—so customers would buy homes from the company’s manufactured housing business.

Through the first nine months of 2024, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway unloaded $133 billion worth of stocks. Buffett reduced Berkshire's massive stake in Apple and sold nearly a quarter of its Bank of America holding.

After spending much of Q3 selling shares of various companies including BAC, Warren Buffet is back to taking major long positions.

After a period of trimming stakes, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ended the year making some sizable insider purchases. Building one of those stakes continued into the new year. Meanwhile, other insiders returned to add to stakes as well in a telecom and a boat maker.

Given the financial environment in which cash is sometimes considered as useless, Warren Buffett's approach of keeping large cash reserves stands out and generates investor interest and speculation. Renowned for his sharp investing style,