{"id":8766,"date":"2026-04-04T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:57:19","slug":"warren-buffett-says-he-sold-apple-too-soon-and-would-buy-more-of-it-though-not-in-this-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8766\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett says he sold Apple too soon and would buy more of it, though not in this market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/108285306-17749597891774959785-44934147561-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Buffett on Apple: I sold too soon\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/warren-buffett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Buffett<\/a> said he sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> too soon and would buy more of it, though not in the current market. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sold it too soon. But, I bought it even sooner, so,&#8221; Buffett told CNBC&#8217;s Becky Quick in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/warren-buffett-says-hes-still-making-calls-on-investments-at-berkshire-flags-tiny-new-buy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> Tuesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/squawk-box-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Squawk Box<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/warren-buffett-teams-up-with-stephen-curry-for-charity-lunch.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8221; <\/a>in which he announced he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/warren-buffett-teams-up-with-stephen-curry-for-charity-lunch.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bringing back his famed charity lunch<\/a>.    <\/p>\n<p>Apple remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BRK.A\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s<\/a> largest holding even after the conglomerate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/17\/berkshire-hathaway-trims-apple-stake-buys-nytimes-stock-in-buffetts-last-moves-as-ceo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trimmed its stake<\/a> to $61.96 billion at the end of last year, according to InsiderScore.<\/p>\n<p>However, Buffett said Tuesday that he would continue to add to the position if it gets cheaper. He said the iPhone maker is not yet attractive even after falling more than 14% off its recent high, and dropping more than 6% this month. That&#8217;s amid turmoil in the broader market, with both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a> in a correction. <\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple performance year to date<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to have it be our largest holding,&#8221; Buffett said. &#8220;I was not happy to have it be as large as almost everything else combined.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not impossible that Apple would get to a price, we would buy a lot of it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But not in this market.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Buffett said the firm has made more than $100 billion in the stock pretax, and was favorable in his comments regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/tim-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Cook<\/a>&#8216;s leadership of the firm over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/steve-jobs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tim Cook has done better with the hand. Steve Jobs \u2014 he couldn&#8217;t have done what Steve Jobs did \u2014 but Steve Jobs handed him a hand that Steve would not have done as well,&#8221; Buffett said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tim was a fantastic manager, and he&#8217;s a good guy, and somehow he gets along with everybody in the world,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s a technique I wouldn&#8217;t have, for example, certainly my partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/charlie-munger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Munger<\/a>, wouldn&#8217;t have had it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Buffett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/01\/warren-buffett-retires-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down as Berkshire&#8217;s CEO<\/a> at the beginning of 2026 after six decades running the conglomerate. He remains chairman of the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from CNBC&#8217;s interview with Warren Buffett<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett said he sold Apple too soon and would buy more of it, though not in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[2327,2479,1702,5549,999,998,474,38,4708,4138,1579,4148,3343,8201,16,4137,1021,3787,584,1493,628,669],"class_list":{"0":"post-8766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warren-buffett","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-becky-quick","10":"tag-berkshire-hathaway-inc","11":"tag-breaking-news-investing","12":"tag-breaking-news-markets","13":"tag-breaking-news-technology","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-business-news","16":"tag-charlie-munger","17":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-invesco-qqq-trust","20":"tag-investment-strategy","21":"tag-market-insider","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-nasdaq-composite","24":"tag-steve-jobs","25":"tag-stock-markets","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-technology-select-sector-spdr-fund","28":"tag-tim-cook","29":"tag-warren-buffett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116346319310642872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}