Berkshire Hathaway has compounded shareholder capital at nearly 20% annually since the 1960s. It all comes down to capital allocation, something the great Warren Buffett, longtime CEO of Berkshire, is great at.

When I saw the big Walmart announcement about Canada last week, I thought immediately of what Warren Buffett famously said in his 1986 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter: “Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Warren Buffet once bet $1 million that a simple S&P 500 index fund would outperform a basket of hedge funds—and he was right!

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Buffett invested in Heinz in 2013 and two years later, Heinz merged with Kraft Foods. He bought 326 million shares during this merger at a cost of around $24.6 billion. He has held on to that stake, which is now worth $11.4 billion.

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