Berkshire Just Showed Its Hand. Here Is What the Charts Say.
Every quarter, the biggest investors on Earth are legally required to show their homework. Berkshire Hathaway's Q1 2026 filing, the first full quarter of the Greg Abel era, landed on May 15: four new positions, thirty one exits, and a 204 percent increase in one very famous name. We read the charts. Not Buffett's this time. The stocks'.
The moves, straight from the filing
Berkshire opened a new 2.6 billion dollar position in Delta Air Lines, tripled down on The New York Times, added homebuilder Lennar, and raised its Alphabet Class A stake by 204 percent. The old guard stayed put: American Express still anchors the book at 17 percent, Coca-Cola at 8, the two Apple lines just under 14 combined. Thirty one positions walked out the door.
What our engine sees in the names they kept
Every stock in our universe has a birth chart cast from its first trade. Three of Berkshire's anchors are in there, and their charts are a study in what holding forever looks like.
Coca-Cola, born September 5, 1919. A Virgo Sun with a Capricorn Moon. In traditional reading, that is the signature of methodical service wedded to patient ambition, a company emotionally built for the long grind. Berkshire has held it since 1988, which is either loyalty or a Capricorn Moon recognizing one of its own.
American Express, first traded May 18, 1977. Taurus Sun, the fixed earth of stored value and creditworthiness, with Jupiter in curious Gemini. A century and a half of charging interest on trust.
Alphabet, born August 19, 2004. A late Leo Sun, the sign of visibility itself, born the same week its founders wrote "Google is not a conventional company" into the prospectus. The 204 percent add means the new regime just leaned hard into the chart with the most Leo in the book.
Delta and the Times are not in our scored universe yet, and per our data policy we do not read a chart we have not verified, so those two wait their turn.
The honest part
Do these charts explain the returns? No. We tested chart-driven selection every way we know how, against shuffled placebo charts, and it does not predict. What the filing plus the charts give you is something else: a quarterly ritual of seeing what the most patient money on Earth actually did, next to a reflective read of the companies' cosmic personalities. Entertainment with receipts, which is the only kind we publish.
Try it in the app: type GOOGL, AXP, or KO into Check Any Ticker and see how Berkshire's anchors sit with your own chart.
FAQ
What did Berkshire Hathaway buy in Q1 2026? Per the May 15, 2026 filing: a new 2.6 billion dollar Delta Air Lines position, a 204 percent increase in Alphabet Class A, a near tripling of The New York Times, and additions to Lennar, alongside 31 exits.
Does Warren Buffett use astrology to pick stocks? No, and neither should you based on our data. We ran Buffett's actual birth chart through our engine and it ranked below every one of sixteen shuffled placebo charts. Whatever Berkshire has, it is not written in the stars, which means it is presumably learnable.
What is Coca-Cola's stock birth chart? KO first traded September 5, 1919, giving it a Virgo Sun and Capricorn Moon in our engine, the classical signature of methodical patience.