Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway 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...

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...

Berkshire Buys More Occidental | Barron’s

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...

Buffett Shareholder Letter Was a Big Disappointment

Every year, investors await Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter with excitement, hoping for the insights and flare that make it a must-read. This year’s was a disappointment.  Buffett took just...

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 ...

Buy FirstEnergy Stock. It Should Thrive as America Goes Electric.

The U.S. is trying to wean itself off fossil fuels, and FirstEnergy an Ohio-based electric utility, should be among that campaign’s winners. The outlook for electric utilities is the best in decades, ...

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 Slashes Stake in Taiwan Semi. What Else Buffett Sold.

Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor during the fourth quarter and nearly eliminated what had been a large stake in U.S. Bancorp according to filings late Tuesday. Berkshire Ha...

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...

Berkshire Hathaway Could Face Big Tax Hit if Bull Market Resumes

Berkshire Hathaway could face a sizable tax bill if the bull market resumes this year. Ever since a 15% corporate minimum tax was included in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, there has been uncert...

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 ...

Buy Toll Brothers Stock. Shares of the Top Luxury Home Builder Look Very Cheap.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here.  With home builder Toll Brothers ‘ stock down 30% this...

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...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

The Housing Boom Is Over. But Housing Stocks Could Still Be Winners.

Plunging orders. Widespread price discounting. Shrinking profits. These are just some of the factors weighing on home builders after surging mortgage rates burst the pandemic-era real estate boom. Hom...

Companies Like Amazon Are Buying Clean Energy – But Will It Make Any Difference To The Oil And Gas Industry?

Workers pack and ship customer orders at the 750,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in … [+] Romeoville, Illinois. Getty Images The need for oil and gas has never been so clearly defined ...

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...