According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, Warren Buffett’s net worth increased by $19 billion this year. That moves him to $161 billion, ahead of his friend Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and has a net worth of $160 billion.

The point is that Buffett still thinks there are a lot of stocks in the market that present good value for investors. But he simply can't invest enough capital to offset the massive amount of cash raised by selling its biggest large-cap stocks like Apple ($3.6 trillion market cap) and Bank of America ($339 billion market cap).

Warren Buffett crossed the threshold into billionaire status in 1985, at the age 54. At the time, there were only 12 other billionaires on the planet (in 2025 there are nearly 2,800). Buffett,