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Here's How 5 Warren Buffett Stocks Would Perform in a Severe Recession

Warren Buffett and his company Berkshire Hathaway own many bank stocks, which make up a large part of Berkshire's roughly $317 billion equities portfolio. Luckily for bank investors, the Federal Reserve recently released the results of its annual stress tests, which put the largest banks in the country through a set of hypothetical adverse economic scenarios to see how they would hold up. During this scenario, encompassing nine quarters, commercial real estate and stock prices would also fall 40% and 55%, respectively.