Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought $1.73 billion of Bank of America stock between July 20 and July 30, bringing its holdings to 1.02 billion shares, worth more than $25 billion.…
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Buffett’s Apple Stake Earns $40 billion since March
Buffett’s best-ever trade may be his move into tech giant Apple, which earned Berkshire Hathaway $40 billion since the market bottomed in March. This according to a recent article in…
Buffett’s Ties that Bind: Eight Timeless Contributions
A recent Validea blog outlines the following eight lessons Warren Buffett has taught Berkshire Hathaway shareholders— that may have kept them loyal through recent years of lagging performance: Education: The…
Eight Timeless Buffett Contributions That Go Beyond Returns & Bind Shareholders
In last week’s article, I discussed Warren Buffett’s recent and long-term track record and how Berkshire shareholders have remained committed to him even though he has trailed the market in…
Has Warren Buffett Lost his Touch? Berkshire Underperformance Triggers Questions
“Some longtime Buffett watchers argue that it is time to fundamentally rethink Berkshire’s mix of businesses and investments” due to the conglomerate’s worst performance versus the S&P 500 in a…
Buffett’s Disappearing Alpha – Why It Doesn’t Really Matter
Warren Buffett has one of the greatest long-term investing track records of all time. The chart below shows the excess return (y-axis) over the market of some of history’s best…
How A German Business May Have Snookered Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett
Within a few weeks after Berkshire Hathaway purchase of what appeared to be a solid German pipe making business, a whistleblower’s tip ended up uncovering fake sales and profit data…
Buffett’s Berkshire buys Dominion Energy
In its first major acquisition since the coronavirus pandemic struck, Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to purchase natural gas transmission and storage assets of Dominion Energy for $4 billion, according to…
Excess Returns, Ep. 31: Can You Quantify Warren Buffett?
In this episode, we are going to try something a little different. Our goal at Validea is to capture quantitative strategies that work over the long-term. To do that, we…
Berkshire’s Big Weakness Revealed in Crisis
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway “has always defied neat categorization,” but his quiet market response to the recent crisis has “fueled questions about what shareholders actually get when they invest in…