Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time, with a performance that easily surpasses the S&P 500 's average. His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, presents a valuable snapshot of the companies he believes in.

Investing in the stock market has been a roller-coaster ride of late. The S&P 500 shed 2.4% on Monday as investors digested President Donald Trump's latest round of attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell,

Billionaire Warren Buffett has invested through every sort of market cycle -- from the most flourishing to times of major losses. In fact, over 59 years as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, he's helped deliver a compounded annual gain of almost 20% -- largely surpassing the S&P 500's compounded annual gain of about 10%.