While the top companies owned by CEO Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway operate in different industries, they have one key thing in common. They each return cash to shareholders through dividend payments. Take a look at the top five stock holdings in Berkshire's equity portfolio and the yields on each company's shares. 

Data sources: CNBC, Yahoo Finance.

As the table above shows, Chevron is the top dividend payer among Buffett's company's five largest holdings -- with a yield of roughly 3.9% based on its stock price as of this writing. That's a solid yield, but other companies in Berkshire's portfolio offer dividend payouts far above that level. 

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