Berkshire Hathaway has enough cash to theoretically buy every NFL team

Iconic investor Warren Buffett and his loyal lieutenants have been busy over the warmer months, having sold $36 billion worth of stock holdings in Q3, taking the Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile north of $325 billion.

By holding that much cash and cash equivalents, Buffett and co. are signalling something along the lines of: we don’t think there are a lot of compelling places to invest right now. And with that much money, not many opportunities are out of reach — there are only a few dozen companies in the US that the group couldn’t acquire outright.

For context on just how much cash it is, the world’s richest person spent “just” $44 billion acquiring Twitter in 2022, Starbucks’ market cap is about one-third of the cash pile, and buying America’s largest news organization wouldn’t take more than ~3% of the company’s hoard. It’s also enough to buy every single one of the 32 teams in the NFL at a 50% premium to their current valuation (which are collectively valued at ~$208 billion, per CNBC).

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