Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Nearly Doubles Stake In Wal-Mart; Discloses Stake In Exxon Mobil, Nestle

11/16/2009 11:53 PM ET

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(RTTNews) - In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKa: News , BRKb) provided a snapshot of its portfolio of U.S. equities at the end of September 30, 2009. Billionaire Warren Buffett's U.S. equities portfolio at the end of September quarter was $56.55 billion, when compared to $48.95 billion held at June 30, 2009.

The filing shows that Buffett, whose stock picks are closely watched by investors, has bought stakes in Nestle SA (NSRGY.PK: News ,NSTR.L: News ), Republic Services Inc. (RSG: News ), Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM: News ), and The Travelers Companies (TRV: News ) and nearly doubled his stake in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT: News ).

Berkshire Hathaway held 3.4 million ADRs of Nestle, valued at $144.7 million, 3.63 million shares of Republic Services, valued at $96.32 million, approximately 27 thousand shares of Travelers Companies valued at $1.35 million, at the end of September. Buffett has started accumulating stake in Exxon Mobil, and held 1.27 million shares at the end of September. Buffett's company also disclosed in a separate filing that it held 0.85 million shares of Exxon Mobil at the end of June.

As of September, 33.63 million shares of Wal-Mart Stores, valued at $1.65 billion, were held by Berkshire Hathaway, compared to 19.9 million shares held at the end of June.

Berkshire Hathaway, which recently agreed to acquire the remaining 77.4% of outstanding shares of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (BNI: News ), it did not own, in a $100 per share cash and stock transaction, held 1.93 million shares of Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC: News ) and 9.5 million shares of Union Pacific Corp. (UNP: News ) as of September.

It is to be noted that BNSF Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Matt Rose last week said that Berkshire will be disposing those holdings in the other two railroad companies.

Berkshire disclosed that it has lessened its holding in ConocoPhillips (COP: News ) to 57.43 million shares and boosted holdings in Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC: News ) to approximately 313 million shares during the September quarter.

Berkshire which had 2 million shares of Eaton Corp. (ETN: News ) at the end of June, showed no stake in the recent filing. Berkshire also reduced its stake in NRG Energy, Inc.(NRG: News ), Moody's Corp. (MCO: News ), Wellpoint Inc. (WLP: News ) and Sun Trusts Banks Inc. (STI: News ).

BRKa closed Monday's trading session at $103,000.