Visa Inc. (V): One of the Top Financial Stocks to Buy According to Warren Buffett

We just covered the 10 Best Financial Stocks to Buy According to Warren Buffett and Visa Inc. ranks 8th on this list.

Visa Inc. 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. 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.

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