Warren Buffett needs no introduction as arguably the greatest investor of all-time. His company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) , has held a stake in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) for more than a decade. The company is one of Warren Buffett's highest-yielding dividend stocks, and it possesses many...
AmericanExpress Company (NYSE:AXP) is victim to the salad oil scandal and shares fall to $35. Buffett saw the value and bought 5% of the company. 1965 – Age 35 Buffett invests $4 million in The WaltDisneyCompany (NYSE:DIS) after a meeting with Walt Disney himself which is almost 5% ...
Warren Buffett is one of the richest men in the world. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns or has a stake in over 70 businesses such as Coca Cola, IBM, and American Express. But this is no ordinary billionaire. He's giving 99 percent of his wealth to charity and he thinks rich peop...
The vehicle through which all this got done, Berkshire, had a stock price of around $12 in 1965 when Buffett took control. It rose to a high of $4,200 in 1987 and was recently about $3,100. Buffett, a witty, straightforward man of 57, owns 42% of the company; his wife, Susan,...
#69.“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”– Warren Buffett #70.“Charlie and I view the marketable common stocks that Berkshire owns as interests in businesses, not as ticker symbols to be bought or sold based on their “chart” patterns, the “target” prices of analysts, or ...
Buffett, which will play well whether we're dealing with a starter home or multimillion-dollar mansion. We have a brand that can handle either one. You're already one of the largest real-estate firms, and you just started. Do you aim to be the largest?We really don't want to be ...
Burlington NorthernSanta Fe, the railroad Buffett bought last year for $26.5 billion, owns more than 30,000 miles of track across the U.S.Westconnecting producers and distributors of coal, grain and consumer goods. Omaha-based Berkshire’s power company, MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., sells ...
Buffett donated about $870 million last year to the four charities run by his family, and about $750 million to them in 2022. Following the newly announced donations, Buffett owns 207,963 Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares and 2,586 Class B shares, the company said. The sh...
Warren Buffett has run Berkshire Hathaway since the 1960s. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company that owns a variety of well-known private businesses. It also holds minority interests in many other public companies. Insurance subsidiaries such as GEICO make up a large...
Berkshire Hathaway owns 400 million Coca-Cola Company shares worth $23.6 billion as of Dec. 31, 2023, representing about 6.8% of its stock portfolio.This accounts for about 9.3% of Coca-Cola's outstanding stock as of Dec. 31, 2023. After Buffett began accumulating the position in 1988, hi...