According to Warren Buffett, "All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies." Luckily for us everyday investors, you don't need Berkshire Hathaway's resources to separate good companies from businesses that are best avoided. Just look for dividend payers that keep raising their payouts.

Berkshire Hathaway doesn't pay a dividend itself, but the vast majority of stocks that it owns do. Buffett's such a big fan of dividend payers that a majority of Berkshire's holdings are concentrated in a handful of dividend-paying stocks. You might be surprised to learn that, at recent prices, just two stocks make up 57.7% of Berkshire's stock portfolio.

Buffett's been at the helm of Berkshire since 1965, but one of its biggest investments of all time didn't enter the equity portfolio until 2016. That was the year Berkshire began building an enormous stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), which has quickly become the conglomerate's largest holding.

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