“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…
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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…
Buffett and Munger on When to Sell
A YouTube video posted by the Investor Center shows Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger answering a question about when to sell a stock at the 1998 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting.…
Seven Mind-Blowing Charts from the COVID-19 Crisis That Deserve Your Attention
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The pictures and charts outlined below may actually be worth much more: 30 million unemployed.$7 trillion on…
Why has Warren Buffett Gone Quiet in the Market?
Last year, Warren Buffett resisted pressure to buy back Berkshire Hathaway stock, pay a dividend or “be more aggressive with investments,” a strategy that seems to be paying off. This…
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sells Part of Delta and Southwest Stakes
Regulatory filings show that last week, Berkshire Hathaway sold nearly 13 million of its Delta shares (for about $314 million) and about 2.3 million in Southwest shares (for about $74…