Bank of America ( BAC -0.47%) shareholders have plenty to celebrate heading into 2025. The combination of a resilient economy, climbing financial asset prices, and optimism toward lending conditions have propelled the stock to a fantastic 31% return during the past year.

Geico, and pension plans of other Berkshire Hathaway units bought nearly $30 million of shares of domain-name registry firm VeriSign.

After the banking turmoil of early 2023 that saw several institutions fail, Warren Buffett pared down the bank stocks in Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) portfolio. However, two stocks that are still on the list are Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY).