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☆ Berkshire Hathaway ramps up buying in secret stock. Here's what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is ramping up buying in a secret stock that could be in the banking sector. If Berkshire's latest earnings report is any indication, the new stock could be in the financial sector. That's larger than the $1.213 billion increase in the third quarter, indicating Berkshire accelerated buying in whatever position it's building. Apple , which is the Oracle of Omaha's biggest holding, amounted to a $174.3 billion stake at the end of December, up $55.3 billion from $119 billion in 2022. Berkshire's American Express stake rose to $28.4 billion in December from $22.4 billion in the year-ago period.

Persons: Warren, Berkshire Hathaway, —, Alex Crippen Organizations: Apple, Omaha's, Chevron, Berkshire's American, Bank of America Locations: Omaha, Berkshire, Chevron

Berkshire Hathaway settled a billion-dollar lawsuit with the Haslam family over how Berkshire accounted for the value of Pilot Travel Centers, which would affect the price paid in a forced buyout of the family's remaining stake in that truck-stop giant, both sides said Sunday night. The Haslam family and its Pilot Corp. in the suit filed this fall alleged that Berkshire Hathaway improperly adopted a form of accounting of the value of Pilot Travel Centers that would have led to a sharply lower price Berkshire would pay to acquire the family's remaining 20% stake in PTC. Berkshire in turn had accused Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam of offering payments to PTC executives to boost the value of the company so that his family would get a bigger buyout from Berkshire, which controls PTC. The Haslam family and Pilot Corp. strongly denied those claims. Berkshire and Pilot Corp. in similar press statements Sunday night said that they had reached an agreement to fully settle the Delaware Chancery case.

Persons: Berkshire Hathaway, Haslam, Greg Abel, Warren Buffett, Jimmy Haslam Organizations: Berkshire, Travel Centers, Pilot Corp, PTC, Cleveland Browns Locations: Berkshire, Delaware Chancery, New York, Delaware

☆ Warren Buffett keeps selling BYD. Why some analysts still say it’s a buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

That's up nearly 50% from where BYD shares closed Friday. In its latest offloading of BYD, Berkshire had sold its shares for an average of 245.86 Hong Kong dollars, according to a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange . Top brand in China BYD is the top brand that consumers in China consider when buying an electric car, Bernstein analysts said in a Nov. 1 report. First-time car buyers and current owners of traditional Chinese, Korean and U.S. brands are more drawn to buy a BYD car next, the Bernstein analysis found. Jefferies on Oct. 31 raised its price target on BYD to 331 Hong Kong dollars, while reiterating a buy rating.

Persons: Warren, Berkshire Hathaway, BYD, Paul Gong, Gong, Buffett, Wang Chuanfu, Tesla, Bernstein, Jefferies, Charlie Munger, Munger, Elon, — CNBC's Michael Bloom, Alex Crippen Organizations: UBS Global Research, UBS, Hong, CNBC, Tesla Locations: China, Hong Kong, BYD , Berkshire, Berkshire, U.S, Southeast Asia, Europe, Buffett's

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway carried on its selling streak for HP , dumping shares of the printer and PC maker for nine straight days and reducing its stake to 10.2%. The conglomerate sold more than 5.1 million shares for over $132 million on Thursday through Monday, according to a regulatory filing released Monday night. Over the nine straight days of selling, Berkshire has shed 14.5 million shares for almost $381 million. Adding in other days of sales in mid-September, Berkshire has dropped a total of 20.0 million shares for $539.5 million, an average selling price of $26.93. Berkshire still holds 100.9 million shares, valued at $2.6 billion at Monday's close of $25.67.

Persons: Warren, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn't, Buffett, That's Organizations: HP, Berkshire, Vanguard Locations: Berkshire, Omaha

☆ Warren Buffett bought more Occidental shares in each of the last six trading days
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought more shares of Occidental Petroleum in each of the last six trading days, boosting its stake in the Houston-based oil-and-gas producer to 24.4%, according to regulatory filings. The Omaha-based conglomerate purchased a total of of 5.6 million shares for $327.2 million over the past six sessions at an average price of $58 a share. Berkshire now owns 217.3 million shares with a market value of nearly $12.7 billion. Shares of Occidental rose nearly 2% in premarket trading Friday. Berkshire owns $10 billion of Occidental preferred stock, and has warrants to buy another 83.9 million common shares for $5 billion, or $59.62 each.

☆ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway scoops up more Occidental shares on the oil dip
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway snapped up more shares of Occidental Petroleum , taking advantage of sliding oil prices amid the spreading banking crisis. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate bought 7.9 million shares in multiple trades on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, a new regulatory filing showed. That brought Berkshire's total number of shares in Occidental to 208 million shares, 23.1% of the oil giant's outstanding shares. The "Oracle of Omaha" had purchased 5.8 million shares for $352.5 million on March 3, March 4, and March 7. Occidental shares opened slightly lower on Thursday.

Berkshire Hathaway sold a portion of U.S. Bancorp , a bank stock that the conglomerate has held since late 2007, a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed. The conglomerate reported owning 52.5 million shares of U.S. Bancorp as of Oct. 31, roughly 3.5% of the bank's outstanding shares, the filing showed. The filing indicates that Berkshire has sold 84.9 million shares, currently valued at $3.8 billion. Buffett first bought 23.3 million shares of U.S. Bancorp in the fourth quarter of 2007 . The conglomerate still owned a sizable stake in Bank of New York Mellon at the end of the second quarter.

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