Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?

Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...

Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.

Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...

EV Sales At Warren Buffett-Backed BYD Quadrupled In March

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns 7.7% of BYD. Photo by: zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx BYD, the Shenzhen-headquartered vehicle and battery maker backed b...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did

Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...

Why the Postwar 1940s May Tell Us More About Our Inflation Than the ‘70s

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size As inflation stirs, economists have fixated on the 1970s. That’s a mistake, says Guggenheim’s chief investment officer, Scott Minerd, who believes the causes of t...

Warren Buffett Does Deal Making Differently. Alleghany Acquisition Shows How.

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images When it comes to acquisitions, Warren Buffett does things differently, and Berkshire Hathaway ’s deal on Monday for Alleghany illustrates his unique ...

Warren Buffett Puts Some of His $144 Billion to Work With Alleghany Deal

Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Text size It was only three weeks ago that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett wrote of the unpleasantness associated with h...

Warren Buffett’s Deal for Alleghany Is Great for Berkshire, So-So for Alleghany

Berkshire Hathaway ’s agreement to buy insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion looks like an excellent deal for Berkshire, but only a so-so one for Alleghany. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK. A and BRK. B...

Warren Buffett Finally Found An Exciting Company To Buy

Warren Buffett speaks during the Forbes’ 2015 Philanthropy Summit Awards Dinner (Photo by Dimitrios … [+] Kambouris/Getty Images) Getty Images Last month, Warren Buffett lamented in his an...

Stock Market Today: Dow Dips, Boeing Slides, and Oil Rises With Ukraine in Focus

Text size The S&P 500 saw its best week since November 2020 last week. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Stocks weren’t doing all that much Monday as markets digest last week’s large gains and the pri...

Berkshire-Backed StoneCo Issues a Bullish Outlook. The Stock Is Soaring.

Text size Dreamstime Shares of Brazilian payment processor StoneCo were skyrocketing Friday after Citi upgraded the stock, citing an attractive valuation and the company’s strong outlook for the first...

Cash-Rich Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, and Alphabet Should Gain From Higher Rates

Text size Apple could be earning $4 billion more on its cash by 2023 Sean Gallup/Getty Images With its enormous cash reserves now earning next to nothing, Berkshire Hathaway could be one of the bigger...

Buffett Buys More Occidental Shares—Here’s How His Top Holdings Have Fared In This Year’s Brutal Market

Topline Billionaire investor Warren Buffett continues to see opportunities in the stock market despite a sell-off in recent months, recently snapping up more shares of energy company Occidental Petrol...

Berkshire Hathaway Again Boosts Its Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its large stake in Occidental Petroleum in recent days and now holds a $7.2 billio...

Warren Buffett Runs Berkshire Hathaway Like It’s the 1960s.

In some important respects, CEO Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway like it’s the 1960s, when he took control of the company. CEO and board pay remain at 1960s levels. Top executives are paid entir...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Holds $6.9 Billion of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued its aggressive purchases of the shares of Occidental Petroleum this week, lifting its stake...

Berkshire Hathaway Bought Back About $2 Billion of Stock This Year

Text size Warren Buffett. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought back about $2 billion of stock in the first quarter through early March, Barron’s estimates. Our estimate is based ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Market Cap Climbs. It Could Soon Overtake Tesla.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently is the sixth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. Photograph by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Tesla is the fifth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. But Warren ...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Has $5 Billion Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway owns a 9.8% stake in Occidental Petroleum worth $5.1 billion after furious buying activity in s...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...

Warren Buffett’s Preferred Equity Allocation Is 100%

Warren Buffett’s preferred equity allocation is 100%, and he has adopted that strategy both personally and at Berkshire Hathaway in a way that is radically different from other companies in the insura...

Buffett Gives A Master Class On Value Creation

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 16: Warren Buffett speaks in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty … [+] Images for FORTUNE) getty Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) announced on S...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts

Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stake in American Express Is Poised to Hit 20%

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway ‘s longstanding stake in American Express is set to hit the 20% threshold in the coming...

Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink

When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...

Charlie Munger Expects Index Funds to Change the World—and Not in a Good Way

Charlie Munger doesn’t think Larry Fink should be running the world. Mr. Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the rise of index ...

Billionaire Investor Charlie Munger Calls Crypto A ‘Disease’ And Praises China For Banning It

Topline Famed investor Charlie Munger, vice chairman at Berkshire Hathaway and longtime business partner of Warren Buffett, shared his investing thoughts at an annual address on Wednesday, in which he...

Ukraine Effects Or Something Else?

Gold bars getty The big NYSE gold miner, closely watched (apparently) by Berkshire Hathaway, is hitting a 5-month price high this week. The Warren Buffett/Charlie Munger fund bought and then sold Barr...