Berkshire purchases often boost stocks. Shares of the steel maker traded as high as $151.32 on Friday, but closed at $145.48, up 0.8%. The S&P 500 fell 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1%.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a position in embattled healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group while showing smaller stakes in longtime holdings Apple and Bank of America, according to a regulatory filing Thursday.

Berkshire Hathaway revealed four new investments Thursday in steelmaker Nucor, insurer UnitedHealth and two of the nation’s biggest homebuilders — Lennar and DR Horton — but only one of the investment