Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway posts big loss in Q4, cash hoard swells to $130 bn

The Omaha, Nebraska-based firm found more value buying back its own shares, repurchasing $2.6 billion, and bought back about $700 million more in the first month-and-a-half of 2023

Warren Buffett donates more than $750 million to family charities

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett donated more than USD750 million in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the four foundations run by his family, but unlike his annual gifts to charity each summer, the recipients didn't include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett has been making annual donations to the same five charities every year since 2006 when he unveiled a plan to give away his fortune over time, with the Gates Foundation receiving the biggest donations. Wednesday's donations mark the first time the 92-year-old has made a second major gift within the same year. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Buffett gave 1.5 million Class B shares in the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate he leads to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his first wife. He also gave 300,000 Class B shares apiece to the three foundations run by his children: the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the NoVo Foundation. In June, he gave 11 million

Softbank to divest 29 mn shares in Paytm via block deals on Thursday

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys stock worth $4.1 bn in TSMC

TSMC's other foreign investors include U.S. asset managers BlackRock Inc and Vanguard Group Inc, and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC

Buffett's Berkshire Hathway reports $2.7 bn loss on investment drop

Warren Buffett's company again reported a loss this time only USD 2.7 billion because of a drop in the paper value of its investment portfolio in the third quarter, but most of its operating businesses performed well with the notable exception of Geico. Berkshire Hathaway reported a quarterly loss on Saturday of USD 2.7 billion, or USD 1,832 per Class A share. That's down from a USD 10.3 billion profit, or USD 6,882 per Class A share, a year ago when the stock market was soaring. In the second quarter of this year, Berkshire reported a USD44 billion loss. Buffett has long said he believes Berkshire's operating earnings are a better measure of the company's performance because they exclude investment gains and losses, which can vary widely quarter to quarter. By that measure, Berkshire's operating earnings jumped 20per cent to USD 7.76 billion, or USD 5,293.83 per Class A share. That's up from USD6.47 billion, or USD 4,330.60 per Class A share. The four analysts surveyed by FactS

Warren Buffett's company likely to keep investing in Occidental Petroleum

Warren Buffett's company received clearance to boost its 20% stake in Occidental Petroleum to as much as 50%, but it's not immediately clear how many more shares Berkshire Hathaway plans to buy or whether it will consider buying the entire company. Shares of the of the oil producer soared nearly 12% Friday after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revealed that it had approved Berkshire's request to buy up to 50% of the Houston company. Shares slid 4% to around $69 amid a broader sell-off Monday and as speculation cooled over the potential for Berkshire to buy the entire company. Berkshire doesn't typically comment on its stock investments beyond what it is required to disclose, and Buffett didn't respond to questions about Occidental on Monday. But Buffett told shareholders at the company's annual meeting in April that he started buying Occidental shares in late February because what the CEO was telling investors then made nothing but sense to him. Berkshire's Occidental ...

Berkshire Hathaway seeks to buy as much as 50% of Occidental Petroleum

Berkshire has spent this year wagering more on Occidental after first making a bet on the Houston-based oil company three years ago

Warren Buffett's company has bet over $45 billion on the oil sector

Occidental's stock jumped nearly 5% Tuesday to trade for USD 62.89 after Buffett revealed his latest purchases of nearly 6.7 million Occidental shares worth more than USD 400 million.

Buffett's Berkshire pounces on market slump to buy equities in June qtr

Berkshire stepped in as the S&P 500 shed 16% in the latest quarter. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company also reported an operating profit of $9.2 bn as the insurance and railroad businesses posted gains

Berkshire Hathaway posts $43.8-bn Q2 loss as stock holdings tumble

Berkshire nevertheless generated nearly $9.3 billion of operating profit, as gains from reinsurance and the BNSF railroad offset fresh losses at the Geico car insurer

Warren Buffett's firm owns nearly $11 bn of Occidental Petroleum's stock

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway now owns nearly $11 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock after buying another 1.9 million shares in the past week

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys more Occidental Petroleum shares

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway now controls nearly 20% of Occidental Petroleum's stock after picking up another $250 million worth of shares of the oil producer this week

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Warren Buffett won't pay even $25 for all Bitcoin in the world

As Bitcoin hovers in the range of $38,000-$40,000 per digital coin, billionaire Warren Buffett has said that he will not even pay $25 for all the Bitcoin in the world.

Buffett says inflation an issue for Berkshire, 'swindles almost everybody'

Buffett said it was "extraordinary" how much inflation had been seen in Berkshire's own businesses

Warren Buffett back in buying spree with deals worth $41 bn in Q1: Report

Bloomberg reported that the purchase provided a boost to its Chevron Corp stake that vaulted the investment into Berkshire's top four common stock holdings

Berkshire meeting: Buffett defends investments and slams Wall Street

Buffett, 91, who is Berkshire's chairman and chief executive, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, 98, fielded questions in a downtown arena in Omaha, Nebraska

Thousands likely at Warren Buffett's meeting but not all are happy

Most attending the company's first in-person meeting since the pandemic want to be there just for the chance to hear from the 91-year-old Buffett and his 98-year-old investing partner, Charlie Munger

Warren Buffett to auction off one last private lunch for charity

Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's CEO, held the lunch auction once a year for 20 years before the pandemic began to raise money for the Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless in San Francisco

HP stock jumps nearly 18% after Warren Buffett's company buys over 11%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it now owns nearly 121 million HP shares, giving it control of 11.5% of the company