2009 Conglomerates Mutual Funds 
The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The conglomerate also owns a slew of privately held business like Duracell batteries, Shaw flooring, Geico insurance, Clayton mobile homes, and Acme brick company just to name a few. The fact is, however, Berkshire is less like a mutual fund than perceived. It also invests in ways that most mutual fund managers simply can't.
The Motley Fool
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Again, it isn't unusual for a company to operate as a conglomerate with businesses that span many industries, but the breadth of Berkshire Hathaway's diversification is vast, including utilities, retail stores, manufacturing companies, and railroads, among many, many others. Learn More Those companies span a surprising range of industries.
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The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Warren Buffett takes a bite of Domino's In mid-November, large hedge funds, mutual funds, and holding companies file their 13F filings , disclosing their buys and sells made during the prior quarter. 14, Warren Buffett conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)
The Big Picture
JUNE 11, 2024
Because this isn’t like, we’re not a hedge fund, we’re not a mutual fund. And that, you know, really finishing it all out was only very recently we’ve added services along the way, but really getting it like stabilized and going about 2009. I mean, tell us about that.
The Big Picture
APRIL 11, 2023
And again, some history, until 2009 or ‘10, Warren Buffett actually spoke out against buybacks. And I think, in a sense, to complete the story, you need to bring in what happened in 2009, in fact, the previous decade to these FAANG stocks — RITHOLTZ: Which was amazing. This is a conglomerate in the 1970s. RITHOLTZ: Right.
The Motley Fool
APRIL 6, 2025
There's nothing about the individual businesses within the conglomerate that's all that difficult to wrap one's head around. As noted, Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate. Usually conglomerates have a few related businesses under one corporate umbrella. That said, the company's most important business had a great year in 2024.
The Motley Fool
MARCH 22, 2025
Sign Up For Free The case for buying Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway is technically a conglomerate : It operates multiple distinct businesses under its corporate umbrella. However, it is like no other conglomerate on Wall Street given the huge diversity of those businesses. It's also holding $334 billion in cash and equivalents.
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