5 Financial Stocks to Buy According to Jim Cramer

2. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 106 

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B) is a conglomerate with core interests in the insurance business. Cramer gave a Buy rating to the firm in late October while answering a question related to it on the Lightning Round segment of his show. 

Over the past month, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B) stock has outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 by 1.2 percentage points and the growth-heavy ARK Innovation ETF by close to 19 percentage points, indicating the market shift towards value heading into 2022.

At the end of the third quarter of 2021, 106 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $19 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B), compared to 116 in the preceding quarter worth $22 billion.

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, Vltava Fund, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“Despite the considerable rise in stock markets over the past year, there are still many attractive opportunities. Human nature also is playing a bit into our hands. Investor crowds often chase popular stocks, hot IPOs, or mysterious SPACs and completely leave aside stocks they consider boring and not sexy enough. A typical example of this category is our long-term largest position in Berkshire Hathaway. Since we bought it for the first time, its price has nearly quadrupled and yet it remains just as undervalued today as it was at that time. Considering the current rate at which it is buying back its own shares and the amount of cash that Berkshire Hathaway has, my greatest wish as a shareholder is for the company’s share price to remain as low as possible for as long as possible.”