The S&P 500 Index ( ^GSPC -0.43%) enjoyed a fantastic year in 2024, gaining roughly 24% (as of Dec. 30). Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A 0.41%) ( BRK.B 0.25%) performed similarly, depending on which share class you look at.

Berkshire Hathaway bought up more VeriSign shares as the final days of 2024 ticked away. Warren Buffett’s company paid $15.6 million from Dec. 26 through Monday for 76,487 more shares of VeriSign, a provider of internet domain-name registry services.

Warren Buffett is recognized as one of the greatest investors of our time. Since becoming chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B) in the mid-1960s, he has trounced the market, generating cumulative returns of more than 4.

Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A -0.99%) ( BRK.B -0.95%) owns a stock portfolio worth roughly $300 billion with about four dozen individual stocks in it. Legendary stock-picker Warren Buffett himself hand-selected many of them, especially the larger positions.