For nearly six decades, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has been dazzling Wall Street with his investing prowess. Even though he and his team aren't going to be right 100% of the time, the ability to locate plain-as-day values has led to an aggregate return on Berkshire's Class A shares (BRK.A) of greater than 5,000,000% since becoming CEO in the mid-1960s.

Professional and retail investors tend to pay particular attention to Berkshire Hathaway's quarterly 13F filings, which provide a snapshot of what Buffett and his team have been buying and selling, as well as Berkshire's quarterly operating reports, which offer insight into how Buffett and his team have deployed their company's capital, as a whole.

Although the $371 billion portfolio Buffett and his investing aides, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, oversee at Berkshire Hathaway has been a source of inspiration for investors spanning the course of many decades, the last five quarters (since Oct. 1, 2022) have given optimists little to cheer about.

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