Here are three stocks legendary investor Warren Buffett owns at Berkshire Hathaway to buy in 2025. One of Buffett's largest and longest-held positions is American Express (NYSE: AXP). The credit card giant has been a fantastic long-term performer,

Buffett invested in Heinz in 2013 and two years later, Heinz merged with Kraft Foods. He bought 326 million shares during this merger at a cost of around $24.6 billion. He has held on to that stake, which is now worth $11.4 billion.

Buffett -- as well as his late great partner Charlie Munger -- would recommend avoiding leverage at all costs in your portfolio. Why? Because when the market turns (which it will inevitably do at times), the downside can wipe you out. The levered Nasdaq ETF went into a massive drawdown in 2022, and that was just one year of bad returns.

Some of the Oracle of Omaha's most-popular buys -- as well as Berkshire's largest holding -- offer robust upside potential in 2025.

Buffett ended 2024 by making some big moves, even with his long-held stocks. Should you be reviewing your own portfolio positions?

All of those moves suggested that Buffett was bracing for a market pullback. The S&P 500 index and Nasdaq are still hovering near their all-time highs as of this writing, and plenty of those stocks are trading at historically high valuations.