3 of Warren Buffett's Top-Performing Stock Picks

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett may well be the most-revered investor of our time. Buffett's simplistic investment strategy, which is to seek out businesses with sustainable competitive advantages, buy them, and hang onto them for exceptionally long periods of time, has worked wonders.

Since 1965, Berkshire's compound annual return rate of 20.3% more than doubles up the compound annual return rate of the benchmark S&P 500 of 10% -- and that's inclusive of dividends. On an aggregate, we're talking about a 2,744,062% return for Buffett's company versus a return of 19,784% for the S&P 500 over the same time frame.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett at his company's annual shareholder meeting. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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