10 Best Financial Stocks to Buy According to Warren Buffett

8. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stake: Sold Off

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) was one of the long-term holdings of Berkshire Hathaway for the past many years. The fund had first disclosed a stake in the company back in the third quarter of 2011. This position comprised a little over 9 million shares. In the next quarter, the fund grew this stake by 25% to 11.4 million shares. By mid-2012, this holding had been reduced by almost half to 6.2 million shares. From mid-2014 onwards, the fund started buying the stock again, growing the stake to around 10.5 million shares by 2016. By late 2021, the holding comprised a little over 8 million shares. No activity was registered against this stock until the first quarter of 2026, when the fund sold off this stake entirely.

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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) posted fiscal second quarter earnings in April, delivered operational metrics that completely dismantled macro-slowdown fears. The firm generated $11.2 billion in net revenue, marking a 17% year-over-year increase. Excluding the immediate post-pandemic recovery anomalies, this represents Visa’s strongest pure organic top-line growth rate since 2013. Adjusted EPS soared 20% year-over-year to $3.31, comfortably outstripping Wall Street consensus forecasts of $3.10. Visa successfully processed 66 billion transactions in just three months, a 9% year-over-year increase, translating to a massive $3.7 trillion in payments volume traveling across its proprietary network.