Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday said quarterly operating income rose 14 per cent, aided by improved results from its insurance businesses, while soaring prices of stock holdings such as Apple Inc led to a nearly $36 billion overall profit. Fourth-quarter operating income rose to $5.02 billion, or approximately $3,252 per Class A share, … Read more
Known as the ‘father of growth investing’, Philip A Fisher was one of the first investment philosophers to focus almost exclusively on qualitative factors while making an investment decision. Fisher began his investment journey as a securities analyst in 1928. Three years later, he founded his own investment counseling firm, Fisher & Co, which he … Read more
By Katherine Chiglinsky Warren Buffett might have just found his next elephant-sized deal: Buying back his own stock. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. spent $16 billion buying back its stock in the first nine months of 2020, more than triple its previous annual record. The repurchases even surpass many of Berkshire’s biggest investments in recent years, including … Read more
By Dhaval Kapadia At its core, valuation-driven investing is simple: find the fair value of an investment, and buy it only if the price is sufficiently below that fair value to provide a margin of safety against error. Then sell it when the price is significantly above the fair value of the investment. The mind’s … Read more
By Katherine Chiglinsky Warren Buffett’s eventual successor will often face the question, WWBD? What Would Buffett Do? Apparently he would keep expanding Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s horizons any way he saw fit. That’s the freedom the chief executive officer, who just turned 90, is giving the next CEO with this week’s announcement of a $6 billion … Read more
By Katherine Chiglinsky Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. spent a record $5 billion buying back Berkshire’s own stock in the second quarter. Berkshire’s Class A shares, which fell in line with the S&P 500 in the first three months of the year as the pandemic spread in the US, fell another 1.7% last quarter while … Read more
Activist investor Bill Ackman says in order to become a successful investor, it is imperative to maintain a fine balance between confidence and humility. Successful investors have a lot of different qualities like analytical thinking, emotional fortitude and patience. However, being self-confident is one of the key quality that helps achieve success in the investment … Read more