Warren Buffett

Why Warren Buffett is interested in Wine Investing

We got news today that Warren Buffett is bullish on U.S Wine:
A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has struck a deal to purchase Atlanta-based Empire Distributing, which has operations in Georgia and North Carolina. Empire is owned by brothers David and Michael Kahn. That subsidiary is grocery distributor McLane, worth $34 billion. Bill Anderson’s [...]


How wide is the moats in Warren Buffetts top holdings in 2010?

Business Insider gave a good breakdown of stocks that Warren Buffett owns at the end of 2009 and for some he have been holding for a long time and som el latest acquisitions.

A glance of this table will show that most of them have a wide economic moat, that will enable them to earn above [...]


Words of Advice in investing from Warren Buffett

From the wallstreet journal, great general advices you should keep in mind when thinking about your next investment:
Stay liquid. “We will never become dependent on the kindness of strangers,” he wrote. “We will always arrange our affairs so that any requirements for cash we may conceivably have will be dwarfed by our [...]


Warren Buffett reduces Energy and up defensive stocks

Reported from the WSJ:
Mr. Buffett continued reducing his stake in ConocoPhillips Co., an investment he has called a mistake. This time he shaved almost 20 million shares, to 37.7 million shares at the end of December from the end of the third quarter.
Mr. Buffett also reversed direction on his holdings of [...]


Warren Buffett wins in the end:Do not doubt the man

The man made some speculative bets and some that he didn’t bite but in the end he turn out to be doing pretty well. For folks who have doubted him like i have, it will be good to learn from him should another crisis comes along. which we anticipate soon.


Warren Buffett:Thriftville vs Squanderville


Warren Buffett’s investment in Goldman up 62%

Never Doubt old experience investors.Another Example of experience is needed in the investing game.
Warren Buffett has once again proven the naysayers wrong.
Some thought he was crazy to, essentially, bail out Goldman to the tune of $5 billion exactly one year ago.
Yet today the $5 billion in preferred shares he received looks safe and sound, while [...]


Warren Buffett’s Investment in Goldman a future model for WallStreet?

There is a good read up this morning on Warren Buffett’s investment in Goldman Sachs.
Specifically, Buffett invested in preferred shares and the reasoning is that he has to gain from aligning not short term interest of Goldman Sachs through debt. These preferrred shares behaves like corporate debt and its high yielding debt since it pays [...]


Warran Buffett divest remain shares in Constellation Energy stake

From Bloomberg:
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. divested the last of its stake in Constellation Energy Group Inc. after declining to enter a bidding war for the firm.
Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. holds no stock, compared with a stake of 12.5 million shares, or about 6.3 percent, reported last month, the company said today in a [...]


Warren Buffett buys more Wells Fargo

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. added to holdings of lenders Wells Fargo & Co and U.S. Bancorp in the first quarter as the shares traded at their lowest prices in more than a decade.
Buffett’s firm, the largest shareholder in San Francisco- based Wells Fargo, increased its stake in the bank by about 4.3 [...]