In a surprise move, in the second quarter of 2024, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made the biggest sale of Apple in years, unloading around 400 million shares and missing the post-WWDC stock peak.

In December 2023, Berkshire Hathaway held about $174.3 billion in Apple stock. As of the Saturday report, the company now holds about $84.2 billion in Apple stock, barring more sales in the last month.

The most it could have sold the shares for is $192.35 on May 21. Apple stock's best price of the year was just a few weeks after the quarter closed, post-WWDC, with it hitting $234.82 on July 16.

Apple stock closed at $219.86 on Friday, following earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations.

Following the sale, the firm owns about 2.6% of Apple. That stake is worth about $88 billion.

The sale is just the latest in a series of stake-trims. Berkshire Hathaway unloaded about 12.5% of its Apple holdings in the first quarter of 2024, before the second quarter's sale. And the firm ended 2023 with a sale of Apple as well.

Despite all the moves, Apple is still Berkshire Hathaway's largest holding value-wise.

A similar percentage of Apple shares that the firm held were unloaded in 2020 and 2021. After the fact, Warren Buffett called that round of sales "probably a mistake."