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Bill Gates is used primarily Microsoft Stock to finance his charity.
The investment strategy he has used in the portfolio of the Gatees Foundation has been strongly affected by his friend Warren Buffett for a long time.
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In 1999, Bill Gates became the first person ever to reach Centibillionaire. This is a net of $ 100 billion. The increasing value Microsoft(Nasdaq: msft) In the late 1990s, stocks break their wealth to any other person in the world. In fact, it will be another 18 years until the founder of another technology company joined the Gates in the club.
Today, though, Gates is not much more worth than it was in 1999 although the market value of Microsoft has risen about eight times from the level of April 1999. This is because it gave a lot of his wealth to the Gates Foundation, a non -profit organization that supports public health, gender equality, economic development and education around the world. He is practically planning all his remaining wealth in the institution before the operations ended in 2045.
The financing of efforts and research that supports these reasons represents confidence with a group of shares circulating for the public worth about $ 48 billion until this writing. More than two -thirds of this portfolio is invested in only three wonderful shares.
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The main way of Gates Funds whose donations with donations from his shares in Microsoft, the company he founded 50 years ago. In 2022, he donated $ 5 billion on top of a pledge of $ 15 billion in 2021. As of the end of June, the Foundation’s Certainty Fund held 26191,207 shares of Microsoft Stock, according to its 13F rescue with SEC. This deserves about 13.4 billion dollars to this writing.
While Gates sold some Microsoft shares to finance their grants, this position is still the largest Holding in Trust. This is partly due to the strong performance of the stock over the past few years.
Microsoft has been one of the largest beneficiaries of artificial smart spending in recent years. The cloud computing sector, Azure, is now $ 75 billion, and has grown 39 % on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of 2025 of the company. This growth must continue, as the administration notes that it remains restricted.
In fact, Microsoft is accumulating a huge accumulation of the remaining performance obligations of its cloud work. Although this number includes the solution of the institutions of the institution based on the group of the cores, the Microsoft 365, the increasing demand for artificial intelligence developers to obtain the arithmetic energy was the main growth program for the part. But the business programs of the institutions remain a major component of the work, also, providing huge amounts of cash flow and stable demand, and supporting the huge Microsoft investments in new databases. The company plans to record $ 30 billion in capital expenditures in this quarter alone.
Microsoft is currently P/E forward 33. This is a special price, for sure, but its consistent growth and location between artificial intelligence shares makes it worth this bonus.
Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) It was a long contract for the Gates Foundation Fund for many years of contributions from CEO Warren Buffett. Pavite, Gates, has long donated a large number of shares in the institution every year, but these donations come with the condition that he spends an amount equal to the value of his donations in addition to 5 % of its current assets. Pavite decided to stop his annual donation at his death.
With plans to spend $ 200 billion over the next twenty years, Gates should not face a problem in meeting Buffett’s requirements. Even with the applicable requirements, confidence has built a large location in the arrow. She kept 24,123,684 shares from the end of June, a share of $ 11.8 billion today.
The value of the shares of Hathaway has decreased since May, when Buffett announced that he was retired as an actual executive president on January 1. It seems that investors are not ready to pay the most shares if Pavite is no longer responsible for investing in the group’s investment decisions.
But Berkshire’s operation results were strong. Her operational profits came in the above expectations in the last quarter, and were stronger if you deduct the impact of foreign exchange rates. However, the combination of growing cash flows, interest revenues, and the reduction of some positions in the wallet, left a huge stock of money in the public budget of Burkashire while Buffett and his team are waiting for good opportunities to invest this money.
Berkshire is now trading a price rate to a little less than 1.6. Buffett Last has rebuilt its shares when the ratio was closer to 1.5, so investors may want to wait for the stock to go down to this level before picking up the shares.
Waste management(Nyse: wm) It has been a long investment for buying and acting in Gates Foundation, which rarely sells the company’s shares. In fact, the only separate decline in the number of TRST WM shares came last summer, when he sold a small part of its share. He still has 32,234,344 shares, at a total of about $ 7 billion until this writing.
Waste management is a symbol of the partially captured investment gates of Buffett and that it directed its investment team to follow up: It is a boring work with a wide competitive trench.
Organizational obstacles are practically impossible to open new control burials in many parts of the United States, making more than 250 waste that the waste management already owns and runs large value assets that are unlikely to face new competition. Meanwhile, the waste management scale allows improving the road density to increase revenues and reduce operating expenses.
This is reflected in the margin of Ebitda, which reached 29.9 % in the last quarter, despite the opposite winds of newly acquired medical waste. While the new business sector contributed to the large operating revenues, it represents clouds on profit margins. However, strong organic growth enabled it to maintain a marginal profile similar to the same period a year ago, which led to the growth of the total Ebitda by 19 %.
Today’s waste management trade shares in the complications of the value of institutions to EBITDA about 15, based on front estimates. This is a fair price to pay the price of a company that produces a strong organic growth and gain new companies strategically offering a good synergy with its overflow. It was the long -term winner of gates, and it may be a great boring work for the ordinary investors they also possess.
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Adam Levy has positions in Microsoft. Motley Fool has positions in Berkchire Hathaway and Microsoft. Motley Fool recommends waste management and recommends the following options: Long January 2026 $ 395 calls on Microsoft and Short January 2026 $ 405 calls on Microsoft. Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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