If you're looking for a CEO you can rely on to grow the value of their business, it's hard to pick anyone more likely to succeed than Warren Buffett. The nonagenarian has been at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) since 1965, and its value has risen at a pace that few money managers have achieved even when measured with much shorter timeframes.

At last glance, Berkshire Hathaway boasted a $786 billion market cap, and this figure peaked above $800 million a few times in 2023. Growing enough to cross the $1 trillion threshold in 2024 would require a better-than-average performance, but it is possible.

At the moment, Berkshire's largest holding by a mile is Apple, which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018. Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia have all achieved market caps that exceed $1 trillion since then. Read on to see why there's a good chance that Berkshire Hathaway can join them in 2024.

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