11.You should be fully aware of one attitude Charlie and I share that hurts our financial performance: Regardless of price, we have no interest at all in selling any good businesses that Berkshire owns. We are also very reluctant to sell sub-par businesses as long as we expect them to ge...
Over the last 50 years (that is, since present management took over), per-share book value has grown from $19 to $146,186, a rate of 19.4% compounded annually.* During our tenure, we have consistently compared the yearly performance of the S&P 500 to the change in Berkshire's per-...
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Energy is the only sector headed for a yearly gain The energy sector shined in 2022 as investors dealt with the fallout from the oil crisis spurred by the conflict in Ukraine. As of Thursday's close, it was also the only major S&P 500 sector on pace to finish the year with gains, up...
Steve Ballmer, of Microsoft, and Jeff Immelt, of GE, can tell you about that problem, suffering as they do from the nosebleed prices at which their stocks traded when they were handed the managerial baton. The ideal standard for measuring our yearly progress would be the change in Berkshire...
The S&P 500 and the Dow declined for the first time in three years, posting a yearly decline of 6.2 percent and 5.6 percent respectively in 2018. While the Nasdaq slumped after six years of consecutive rallies by 3.9 percent, its worst annual performance over the past decade. ...
Shares of IBM posted a gaining streak since Tuesday afternoon and rose over 8 percent, driven by stronger-than-expected quarterly, yearly earnings in 2018 thanks to its broad application of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. ...
Suppose there is a company with yearly earnings of $10 million and 500,000 outstanding shares. This company's EPS, then, is $20. If it repurchases 100,000 of its outstanding shares, its EPS immediately increases to $25, even though itsearningshave not budged. Investors who use EPS to ga...
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