It's no secret that Warren Buffett is the biggest individual shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Berkshire ranks as the sixth largest S&P 500 stock based on market cap. As of March 8, Buffett owned shares that controlled roughly 31.5 of the voting interest in the giant conglomerate. That effectively makes him Berkshire's controlling shareholder.

But Berkshire isn't the only huge company for which the multibillionaire sits in the catbird seat. Buffett also owns more of these eight stocks than anyone on the planet.

Buffett wrote in his latest letter to Berkshire shareholders that the S&P 500 generated $1.8 trillion in earnings in 2021. He didn't have the final numbers for 2022 when he wrote the letter, so he used the 2021 figures. Buffett noted that only 128 of those S&P 500 companies (including Berkshire) posted earnings of at least $3 billion. He then stated that Berkshire was the largest shareholder of eight of those big companies. Here they are:

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