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APRIL 27, 2024

Shares of the Japanese conglomerate have skyrocketed over 40% this year. Berkshire owns stakes of roughly 9% in five Japanese trading companies. However, when Berkshire owns a stake in a company, Buffett owns a stake too. That could be a smart decision. Mitsubishi's business spans a wide range of industries.

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MAY 12, 2024

With a market cap of about $877 billion, there are only so many investments that can move the needle for the conglomerate. The tracking stocks are designed to reflect Liberty Media's stake in Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI) , of which it owns 83%. Buffett also added a small amount to his stake in Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The conglomerate first started buying shares in the iPhone maker during the first quarter of 2016. stake in Apple thanks to its holding of nearly 916 million shares. This sizable cash infusion would only exacerbate the conglomerate's problem. Many people believe that Warren Buffett is the greatest investor ever.

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Financial Times M&A

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Move to divest some of cigarette maker’s stake in Indian conglomerate lays ground to resume share buybacks

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

HIG Capital sells minority Eletromidia stake to Grupo Globo Submitted 01/09/2023 - 11:35am HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with $58bn of capital under management, has sold a portion of its stake in Eletromidia, a Brazil-based out-of-home (OOH) media company, to Latin American media conglomerate Grupo Globo (Globo).

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Sure, shares of the giant conglomerate jumped 15%. Buffett's stake in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is much smaller. The telecommunications company is a relatively small position for Buffett, with Berkshire's stake currently worth around $850 million. The Nasdaq-100 was sizzling hot in 2023, skyrocketing nearly 54%. wasn't as hot.

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JUNE 14, 2023

While Buffett still runs Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , the firm that he took over in 1965 and built into one of the largest conglomerates in the world, he now has many other investors that work with him at Berkshire and have their own autonomy including Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. if Berkshire wanted to.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Shares of 3M (NYSE: MMM) finished the day higher after the industrial conglomerate completed the spin-off of its healthcare business, which is now known as Solventum (NYSE: SOVL). stake in Solventum, though it said that will be monetized over the next five years as it sells it off. Solventum, however, finished the day down 0.7%.

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APRIL 27, 2024

It makes up 41% of the conglomerate's portfolio. Capital allocation As of this writing, Berkshire Hathaway owns 906 million shares of Apple, giving the conglomerate a 5.9% stake in the tech giant. Berkshire first purchased shares in the first quarter of 2016. Apple's market cap is a whopping $2.6

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the early part of Q2, he added more than 16 million shares to the conglomerate's stake in HP. 11, 2023, the company revealed in a regulatory filing that it had slashed its stake in HP to 5.2%. The conglomerate still owns roughly 51.5 As recently as 2023's Q1, Buffett was still buying HP stock. looks great.

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MARCH 24, 2024

Altria Group: Price increases and selling minority stakes Our first stock is Altria Group (NYSE: MO). Altria Group owns a large stake in Anheuser Busch , the global beer company. It has started to sell off part of this stake in order to fuel share buybacks, which decrease Altria's outstanding shares.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Lennar Berkshire exited its stake in one major U.S. homebuilder in the fourth quarter, but the conglomerate's portfolio still includes two homebuilders. The conglomerate, though, has regulatory approval to acquire up to 50% of Oxy. As the leading cloud services provider, Amazon should benefit greatly from this trend.

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MARCH 3, 2024

of the conglomerate's portfolio. Berkshire increased its stake in Apple by more than 55%. However, Berkshire reduced its stake in Apple by a little over 1% in 2023 Q4. What a $10,000 investment in Apple then would be worth now Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Apple is now worth nearly $164.3 It makes up a whopping 44.3%

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MAY 8, 2024

Many investors, including Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett, would love to find an attractive way to invest that capital, but the conglomerate has had no such luck. Although it wasn't quite as large, it's also worth noting that Berkshire sold its entire stake in Paramount (NASDAQ: PARA) , which likely brought in around $800 million.

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MARCH 24, 2024

But as much as Buffett likes Apple, Berkshire Hathaway has bigger stakes in other businesses as a percentage of their outstanding shares. Buffett's conglomerate owns over 25% of these four companies. DaVita Berkshire's stake in DaVita (NYSE: DVA) tops 41%. stake in Liberty SiriusXM Series A (NASDAQ: LSXMA) and a 25.9%

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MARCH 20, 2024

British American Tobacco is rumored to be in the process of selling a sizable stake in Indian conglomerate ITC, which itself has a sizable cigarette operation. The best part of the story, however, is that British American Tobacco isn't planning to sell its entire stake in ITC. This is where things get interesting.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The conglomerate's stake is currently worth close to $175.9 Berkshire's stake in the e-commerce and cloud services giant is currently worth around $1.6 Like Berkshire, NEAM has a stake in Apple. It's also probably fair to say that he views one of those two stocks as much more magnificent than the other.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Apleona, which provides facility-management services to the commercial, industrial and public sectors, was formerly part of the German industrial conglomerate Bilfinger SE. EQT acquired the Company in 2016 through a carve-out from Bilfinger SE, a listed German industrial services conglomerate. stake in Indian cancer.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

stake in Amex makes it the conglomerate's third-largest holding. However, the conglomerate's eighth-largest position, credit rating agency Moody's (NYSE: MCO) , is a notable exception. American Express Buffett has owned shares of American Express (NYSE: AXP) longer than nearly any other stock in Berkshire's portfolio.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

That was the year Berkshire began building an enormous stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , which has quickly become the conglomerate's largest holding. Apple's stock price has risen a stunning 627% since the end of the first quarterly period that Berkshire disclosed its stake in the company. The stock offers an uninspiring 0.5%

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AUGUST 22, 2023

He added to Berkshire's stake in two other stocks. However, he trimmed the conglomerate's position in five stocks. He increased Berkshire's stake in the stock in the subsequent quarter to around 3.2 In Q1 of 2023, he reduced the conglomerate's stake by another 19.8%. Should you? million shares. million shares.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Although the conglomerate trimmed its position in Apple a little in the fourth quarter of 2023 , Buffett still thinks highly of the company and its management. Berkshire's stake in AmEx is worth nearly $36 billion compared to $39.1 I doubt Buffett will buy more Coke stock, but he could increase his stake in Chevron (as he did in Q4).

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MARCH 10, 2024

Berkshire's $38 billion bet on Apple was a home run, but the conglomerate has spent nearly twice that amount since 2019 accumulating stock in another company that has nothing to do with the Magnificent Seven, or the technology sector, at all. That holding is worth just $1.7 That's right.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the end of 2023, the conglomerate's stake in the company stood at 27.8%. Berkshire currently owns stakes of roughly 9% in each of these Japanese companies. Buffett noted that the conglomerate has committed that it wouldn't increase its ownership in any of them beyond 9.9%.

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MAY 17, 2024

In reality, two new companies came out of the spinoff of Solventum (NYSE: SOLV) and 3M (NYSE: MMM) -- a newly created healthcare company and an industrial conglomerate without a healthcare business. stake in Solventum, which it can sell to raise cash. Image source: Getty Images. In addition, 3M retains a 19.9%

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MARCH 20, 2024

Buffett increased Berkshire's stake in the oil and gas giant by 14.4% Chevron ranks as the fifth-largest holding in the conglomerate's portfolio. Although Buffett hasn't said why he's upping Berkshire's stake in Chevron, I suspect his rationale is similar to mine. Chevron (NYSE: CVX) was one of them.

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JULY 19, 2023

Buying a stake in Activision proved to be a lucrative move for Berkshire. By the end of 2022, its stake had been trimmed to 6.7%. The giant conglomerate's stake was reduced to only 1.9%. However, Buffett later personally entered the fray and increased Berkshire's stake in Activision. of Activision.

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APRIL 21, 2024

While the portfolio has stakes in two dozen companies in all, the vast majority is held in just four stocks. million Berkshire shares in a stake worth nearly $7.96 Those factors help explain why Berkshire Hathaway continues to be among Gates' largest stakes. Image source: Getty Images. Currently, the trust holds 19.9

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

in 1965, he took the struggling textile company and turned it into a massive conglomerate. Additionally, the conglomerate must report any stock purchases or sales for companies in which it owns a stake of 10% or more within three days of the trade. Warren Buffett's investing track record is tough to match. for the last 58.5

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JUNE 29, 2023

The media conglomerate owns several sporting and entertainment assets, which can dilute investors' exposure to the F1 brand, so it offers three separate securities that specifically track its performance: Liberty Media Formula One (NASDAQ: FWON.A) (OTC: FWON.B) (NASDAQ: FWON.K). Image source: Getty Images. Formula 1 is bigger than ever!

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Warren Buffett's masterpiece is a well-diversified conglomerate that should continue to generate solid returns for its shareowners long after the legendary investor retires. Iger could look to sell Disney's 80% stake in ESPN. Iger is reportedly also considering an acquisition of Comcast 's one-third stake in Hulu.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

His conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway , has grown into one of the world's largest companies, owning dozens of privately held businesses as well as stakes in an array of public corporations. It's a low-weight position for the conglomerate, accounting for just 0.2% of the portfolio's value.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

million shares, or 67% of its total stake. The conglomerate has since reduced its position over the past two quarters and now owns just 831,014, or about 13% of its original stake. In addition to Globe Life, Berkshire sold some of its stake in the specialty insurer Markel and the insurance broker Aon. billion in stocks.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Global private equity firm Carlyle Group is closing in on a deal to acquire a majority stake in Thyssenkrupp’s Marine Systems business at a value of about €1.5bn ($1.6bn) including debt, according to a report by Bloomberg. Agreement has yet to be reached in either case though and the deals may yet fail to progress.

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APRIL 20, 2024

The conglomerate's portfolio owns dozens of stocks but also features two ETFs. Griffin's Citadel also has a stake in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF. The legendary investor added, "I suggest Vanguard's." He also put Berkshire's money where his mouth is. One is the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO).

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APRIL 5, 2024

As the dust settles on the breakup of the industrial conglomerate known as General Electric, markets are still trying to figure out how to price the different parts of the business. A powerful force unleashed Amid all the issues experienced by General Electric over the last decade, aerospace was always a standout piece of the operation.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Indian conglomerate Tata Group-owned Tata Consumer Products is reportedly in talks to acquire stakes in snack maker Haldiram’s. According to a Reuters report, Tata Consumer Products wants to acquire at least a 51% stake in the brand. The development comes amid Mukesh Ambani’s rapidly expanding its retail presence.

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