What if Buffett Hired Me to Pick Stocks? Here Are 2 Stocks I'd Buy for Berkshire Today.

By Jason Hall and Jeff Santoro – Sep 27, 2025 at 5:00AM EST

NYSE: TGT

Target

Market Cap

$48B

Today's Change

(-0.67%) $0.71

Current Price

$105.62

Price as of January 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM ET

One is an old-school Buffett value investment, and one a Munger-esque inversion of growth at a reasonable price.

In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Jeff Santoro play a game, picking two stocks they'd buy for Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A 0.30%)(BRK.B +0.00%) portfolio, if Warren Buffett hired them to help invest. They make the case for Target (TGT 0.67%) and MercadoLibre (MELI 0.06%).

*Stock prices used were from the afternoon of Sept. 24, 2025. The video was published on Sept. 26, 2025.

Jason Hall is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst with more than a decade of experience writing about dividend stocks and long-term investing. He has been with the company since 2012 and previously spent over 10 years in technical sales in the printing and information services industry. Jason also founded and operated a small food manufacturing business.

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