American Express Is Warren Buffett's Second-Biggest Stock. Is It Still a Buy Near Highs?
One of Warren Buffett's largest and longest-held bets has been a steady winner. But the easy money may already be gone.
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When Warren Buffett handed the chief executive job at Berkshire Hathaway to Greg Abel at the start of this year, he stepped back to the role of chairman and left behind a stock portfolio built around a few enormous bets. The biggest is Apple. The second is American Express (NYSE: AXP), which now makes up about 17% of Berkshire's equity holdings and stands as one of Buffett's longest-held stocks.
It has been a rewarding place to sit. American Express stock has more than doubled over the past five years, and it recently traded around $350 as of this writing, not far below the record high near $382 it set in December. So the question worth asking today is a simple one: With the shares this high, is it too late to buy, or does the current valuation still leave room for more?
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