Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 6 million shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, bringing its stake in the big energy company to 200.2 million shares worth $12.2 billion, according to a filin...
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Buffett’s Berkshire Buys More Occidental Stock. How Much It Owns Now.
Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 6 million shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, bringing its stake in the big energy company to 200.2 million shares worth $12.2 billion, according to a filin...
Apple, Berkshire, Alphabet, and Microsoft Reap Benefit of Higher Rates
Rich corporations are getting richer thanks to higher interest rates. Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A), and Microsoft (MSFT) have the largest cash positions among Amer...
Berkshire Hathaway Sees Major Losses — But Remains Optimistic
Topline Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway—a conglomerate that owns Geico and holds majority shares in companies like American Express, Bank of America and Coca-Cola—posted fourth-quarter losses and ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Could Get an Occidental Stock Payoff
One of Berkshire Hathaway’s best investments in the past five years was its purchase of $10 billion of Occidental Petroleum preferred stock paying an 8% dividend yield. Occidental Petroleum (ticker: O...
Let The Country Benefit From The JetBlue Effect
Richard Branson once famously said (reflecting on his adventure with Virgin Atlantic), “If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” For his part, Warren Bu...
Warren Buffett Slashes Taiwan Semiconductor, Adds To Louisiana-Pacific
Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F reveals it was buying Lousiana-Pacific, Apple and Paramount Global in the fourth quarter of 2022. The firm also reduced several positions. There were no new buys or sold...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Buy in Truck-Stop Operator Pays Off
Berkshire Hathaway investors may soon get a read on one of the company’s better deals in the past decade—a 2017 purchase for nearly $3 billion of a 38.6% interest in Pilot Flying J, the country’s lead...
Berkshire Hathaway’s 4Q Equity Buys and Sales to Be Disclosed in Filing Tuesday
What were Warren Buffett and his colleagues at Berkshire Hathaway up to with their $350 billion equity portfolio last quarter? Investors will find out very soon. A regulatory filing expected Tuesday s...
2 Natural-Gas Stocks to Play the Coming Rebound
The collapse in natural-gas prices in recent months has generated a fraction of the attention of the run-up of the first half of 2022. But it could dent 2023 profits industrywide—and dampen inflation ...
Oil And Gas Industry Mergers Dropped 13% During 2022
Aerial view of Natural Gas Well being drilled in northwestern West Virginia in the Marcellus Shale … [+] Formation photograph taken August 2020 getty In its annual report detailing activity arou...
Warren Buffett-Backed BYD’s EV Sales Soar To Monthly Record In December
A BYD showroom in Shanghai last year. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Sales of new energy vehicles at BYD, China’s top-selling electric vehicle maker, more than doubled ...
Berkshire Hathaway Had a Strong 2022. What to Watch in 2023.
Berkshire Hathaway is coming off a strong year, one in which operating earnings climbed, investment activity picked up sharply, and the stock handily outperformed the S&P 500 The outlook for 2023 ...
Are Warren Buffett’s Investment Aides Beating the Stock Market?
Todd and Ted may be having a tough year in the stock market. Todd Combs and Ted Weschler each were hired by Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) CEO Warren Buffett more than a decade ago to manag...
I Changed My Investment Strategy This Year and Prepared for How It Went
Barron’s Staff Illustration Text size In recent weeks, I’ve gone from passive investor to a sort of living room corporate treasurer, scrounging for ways to boost the yields of my portfolio by a few ba...
Black Friday Has Lost Its Punch for Retailers and the Economy
This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Black Friday Said What? Talking Points BMO Capital MarketsNo...
BYD Shares End Week Lower As Berkshire Hathaway Sells Again, China EV Subsidies Cut
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has trimmed its stake in China EV maker five times in the past … [+] three months, according to Hong Kong Stock Exchange filings. (Photo by Dimitrios Ka...
Berkshire Scores Big With Japanese Investments. Currency Hedge Is Key.
One of Berkshire Hathaway ‘s bigger investment scores in recent years was the purchase of a group of five Japanese trading companies that now are showing an estimated profit of about $4 billion on an ...
This Model Predicted Buffett’s Biggest Buys–Here’s What Could Be Next
Warren Buffett (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc) getty It was 2016 and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced it has started buying shares of technology bellwether AppleA...
Stocks Rally Following Strong Inflation Report, Buffett Bets $4 Billion On Chipmakers
Topline Stocks surged Tuesday morning before settling into modest gains, with Berkshire Hathaway’s latest investments leading the rally, after another promising inflation report stoked hope the Federa...
Berkshire Bought Taiwan Semi Stock. Here’s What Else It Bought and Sold.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes $4 Billion Stake In Taiwanese Semiconductor Giant TSMC
Legendary investor Warren Buffett. Illustration by Shanshan Kao for Forbes Asia; Photos by Michael Prince/The Forbes Collection; Getty U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway...
A Berkshire Hathaway Bright Spot: Energy. Here Are the Numbers.
Warren Buffett likes energy. Berkshire Hathaway now owns some $58 billion of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum securities. It isn’t Berkshire’s largest holding; that would be insurance, led by auto ins...