BRK-B - Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
On Oct. 1 and 2, as mortgage rates rose toward a three-year high, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A | BRK-A Price Prediction)(NYSE:BRK-B) bought roughly 2.
Charlie Munger beat the market for decades alongside Warren Buffett, then turned around and told ordinary savers to stop trying to do what he did. His reasoning exposes a costly mistake millions of investors make every year.
Berkshire's insurance underwriting, railroad, energy, and manufacturing units raised their total earnings 11% in 2026's first half. Mastercard's second-quarter fees on cross-border card use rose 21% from a year ago.
As long as the internet exists, one particular company will be in a position to thrive. Industrial outfit GE Vernova is anything but an exciting prospect, but what it lacks in pizzazz it more than makes up for in consistent progress.
Michael Burry called index funds a bubble and predicted an ugly crash. Seven years later, the money that stayed invested tells a complicated story, and the part of his warning that still stands is sitting inside your retirement account right now.
Berkshire's Class A shares cost around $759,000 apiece, and the company left them unsplit when it split its Class B stock in 2010. Every Class A share can be converted to 1,500 Class B shares anytime.
Warren Buffett once staked $1 million on a bet that shook the entire hedge fund industry, and the way he won exposes a hidden cost that most retirement investors are paying right now without realizing it.
Warren Buffett retired on Dec. 31, handing the keys to the trillion-dollar conglomerate he built to his protégé, Greg Abel. The Oracle of Omaha dumped 75% of Berkshire Hathaway's Apple stake before a huge run-up.
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Berkshire Hathaway's $177.5B insurance float provides low-cost capital for investments and acquisitions while reducing reliance on external funding.
Selling appreciated stock and donating the cash feels like a clean, generous move, but Medicare scores your income at a step that comes before the charity deduction even appears on your return, and the gap between those two lines can cost a household thousands.
New CEO Greg Abel isn't making major changes to Berkshire's model and has already made a big acquisition. Berkshire Hathaway stock has trailed the S&P 500 over the past three-, five-, and 10-year periods.
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Lennar Corporation trades at 0.83x book, well below peers, with Berkshire Hathaway now owning about 12% after significant recent purchases. I see fair value for LEN at $90–$100 per share, supported by long-term U.S. housing shortages and Lennar's asset-light, high-volume strategy. LEN faces near-term margin pressure (15.8% Q3 gross margin), high mortgage rates, and governance questions regarding related-party sales to Millrose.
Berkshire keeps buying Lennar shares even as the stock sinks below what it paid, a short seller questions the company's reported deliveries, and Greg Abel himself admits he sees no quick recovery in housing. That raises a question worth answering.
The co-portfolio manager at Heartland Advisors urges investors to shut out Wall Street's hype on AI and look for companies that can use its technology as costs come down.
American Express is the last remaining credit card stock in Berkshire's portfolio. The New York Times Company is bucking the trend of the struggling newspaper industry.
Berkshire's latest purchases were made last Thursday and Friday. Lennar stock fell almost 7% Monday after the publication of a negative report on the company.
Of the 29 stocks in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, 26 of them pay dividends. There are some solid dividend stocks in the group, including Coca-Cola.
Maybe it is because Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B | BRK-B Price Prediction) at the end of last year. Maybe his replacement, Greg Abel, is not up to the job.