Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway In the past quarter, even when the stock market markets were presented to President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs and brief bargain, even when the stock markets were presented.
The results published on Saturday showed that the conglomerate was a net buyer of stocks for the 11th quarter in a row. In the course of the quarter, Berkshire invited 6.92 billion dollars and bought $ 3.9 billion.
In the meantime, Buffett’s cash stack grew and at the end of June a new high of 344 billion US dollars, of $ 333 billion at the end of March. Berkshire was also on stock returns for the fourth quarter in a row.
The legendary value -conscious investor has complained about the lack of good offers for years. This includes possibilities for large acquisitions of companies that could be folded into Berkshire and important share purchases for the portfolio.
At the same time, Buffett also avoided the moves of the knee-back moves, and the stock market rose in April and recovered when Trump shocked Wall Street with his aggressive tariffs and put it on hold just a few days later.
During the sale, the S&P 500 flirted with the area of the bear market and immersed almost 20% compared to the previous one. But the index has turned new records again since then.
Nevertheless, the swamp also emphasized buffets of scary timing, as he seemed to anticipate a market upturn Last year, a shares of 134 billion US dollars sold in 2024 – when the bull market was still raging.
The fluctuations in the stock exchange also came when Buffett thought about a transition from his leadership role. In May he announced that his anointed successor, Greg Abel was supposed to take over the CEO from Berkshire Hathaway Until the year.
While Buffett is expected to stay as a chairman, he may be able to stay away from dramatic steps to clarify the decks for Abel, who had already taken over one Larger leadership role Before May.
Despite his aversion to major purchases recently confirmed Buffett’s annual letter to the shareholders in February his commitment to remain invested in stocks and companies, even as the cash.
“The shareholders of Berkshire can be sure that we will use a significant majority of their money in shares forever – mainly American stocks, although many of them will have international operations,” he wrote. “Berkshire becomes never Prefer ownership of cash equivalent assets compared to the property of good companies, whether checked or only partially obsessed. ”
Berkshire also reported that his operational profit, which excludes the effects of his investments, decreased by 4% to $ 11.16 billion in the second quarter than the results of the insurance orders weakened. The company booked an impairment of 3.8 billion US dollars for its Kraft Heinz Also set a value of $ 8.4 billion.
