How can I invest like Warren Buffett?
Short answer
Buy wonderful businesses at fair prices and hold them: look for a durable competitive advantage (moat), high returns on capital, honest management that allocates capital well, and a price below what the owner earnings justify. invest-like turns this into a 0-100 Buffett-Fit Score for any of 21,000+ stocks, with the reasoning written out.
What matters
Buffett's criteria are public: he has described them for decades in the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters. The hard part is applying them consistently to every company.
invest-like scores five pillars (moat, durability, management, financial health, valuation) from current fundamentals, and Ask Buffett answers questions from the actual letters with quotes.
Buffett's checklist
- 1Understand the business: could you explain how it makes money in two sentences?
- 2Moat and returns: ROIC consistently above 15 percent, stable or rising margins.
- 3Durability: earnings that survived the last downturn; little debt.
- 4Management: shareholder-friendly capital allocation (buybacks at sensible prices, no empire building).
- 5Price: a margin of safety versus owner earnings; be patient if there is none.
Questions
Is there an app that picks stocks like Buffett?
invest-like checks any stock against Buffett's documented criteria and explains the result; the Boardroom also has Buffett debate Graham, Lynch and Greenblatt on the same stock.
What does Buffett look for in a stock?
A business he understands, a durable competitive advantage, able and honest management, and a sensible price.
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Reviewed 2026-09-27. Educational only, not investment advice.