Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

Private equity firm KKR plans to cut its stake in Kokusai Electric, two people familiar with the matter said, cashing in after a blistering run for shares in the Japanese chip equipment maker. KKR, which holds around 43% of Kokusai’s shares, plans to sell about half of its stake to investors, one of the people said.

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JUNE 23, 2024

More recently, he made what may be a once-in-a-generation bet on Southeast Asian conglomerate Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) after having sold most of his shares in 2022. When Coleman first took an interest in 2018, Sea Limited looked poised to capitalize on mobile gaming and online commerce in the populous emerging markets in Southeast Asia.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 13, 2024

In 2018, he famously described Bitcoin as "probably rat poison squared" and expressed his belief that cryptocurrencies would "come to a bad ending." Still, the conglomerate's lack of significant exposure to companies at the heart of the AI revolution is arguably another underappreciated risk factor. What's the big picture?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 23, 2024

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) crossed the next big threshold in 2018 when it became the first publicly traded company to amass a $1 trillion market capitalization. The conglomerate owns substantial positions in private and public success stories like GEICO, Coca-Cola , and even Apple. That's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Berkshire's largest holding is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018. But that's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories. Berkshire now has a full ownership stake in a number of famous businesses including Dairy Queen, Duracell, and GEICO. Berkshire could be the first U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

is reviewing strategic options for its majority stake in SK Shipping Co., is working with financial advisers as it weighs a potential partial or full sale of its stake, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Considers Selling Stake in SK Shipping for $10bn South Korean buyout firm Hahn & Co.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Berkshire sold another 25% or so of its Apple stock, bringing total year-to-date sales to 600 million shares, or around two-thirds of its stake since the beginning of the year. That eventually grew into the conglomerate we know today.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

from a struggling textile business in the 1960s to a massive conglomerate worth $900 billion today by buying highly valuable businesses at a fair price. That's the third straight quarter Buffett has trimmed his stake in Apple , a company he called "a better business than any we own" at last year's shareholder meeting.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

Over that 59-year stretch, he steered the conglomerate to average annual returns of 19.8%, which is nearly twice the average annual return delivered by the S&P 500 index over the same period. But Bank of America was an early adopter of AI, launching its AI assistant called Erica way back in 2018. investment company since 1965.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Shares of his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , have a long-term track record of growth that proves it. Its 578,000-share/$42 million stake only makes up about 0.01% of the Berkshire Hathaway investment portfolio's present value; Buffett sold most of the position in 2013, shortly after the spinoff.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

During the second quarter of 2024, Berkshire went on a selling spree, cutting its $160 billion stake in Apple in half and trimming a number of other positions, including Chevron , T-Mobile , and Capital One Financial , to name just a few. billion worth of its shares since 2018, which is twice the amount he spent buying Apple !

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AUGUST 26, 2024

As CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , Buffett offers tons of investment advice and commentary in his annual letters to shareholders and at the conglomerate's annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Recently though, Berkshire trimmed about 12% of its stake in BofA. It's a true buy-and-hold story.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, he put a lot of money into Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) between 2016 and 2018, spending around $36 billion on that stock over the period. At one point, Berkshire Hathaway's Apple stake grew to become about 50% of its equity portfolio, but Buffett has been selling the stock lately. Should you follow Buffett?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

conglomerate just hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion for the first time, joining rare air occupied only by Microsoft , Nvidia , Apple , Alphabet , Amazon , and Meta Platforms. The company changed its share buyback policy in 2018 from only repurchasing its stock when it was less than 1.2 We knew it was coming.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The entertainment conglomerate also owns Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars , ESPN, ABC, Hulu, and a slew of cable networks, including those it gained from Fox in its 2018 deal. The entertainment giant now has roughly $47 billion in debt on its books, and it added substantial borrowings when it acquired Fox's entertainment assets in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But in early August 2018, Apple hit that coveted mark. The market sold off heavily in late 2018 over tensions with the U.S.-China Berkshire owns dozens of companies outright and has stakes in several private businesses. Berkshire also owns a 92% stake in Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which could be worth around $90 billion.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since 1965, he has steered his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , to average annual returns of 19.8% Today, Berkshire Hathaway owns a portfolio of 56 publicly listed stocks and securities worth $352 billion, as well as dozens of wholly owned companies under the conglomerate's umbrella.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The power of conglomerates was on full display when General Electric became the first-ever $100 billion company in 1995. By 2018, the technology sector reigned supreme, and Apple hit the most impressive milestone of all: a $1 trillion valuation. Apple is a $2.9 Apple is a $2.9 Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Snowflake has attracted some top-tier investors, including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, which currently owns a stake worth $1.1 In 2018, Snowflake launched the Data Cloud, which allowed businesses to connect all of their data, regardless of which cloud provider they were using. Reason No.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 10, 2024

When he can't (or doesn't want to) buy the whole company, he'll buy an equity stake. However, Buffett's favorite stock to buy for Berkshire shareholders has already doubled since (after a pause) he began buying shares of it again in 2018. billion last year, up 50% from 2018. Image source: The Motley Fool. They reached $37.4

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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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Buffett earned those returns by acquiring businesses outright to operate through his conglomerate, and by picking stocks to hold in its extensive portfolio. It's not surprising to see that Berkshire Hathaway continued to hold a sizable stake in it -- worth $1.9 billion as of the end of the third quarter.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

I'm talking about conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , which has been led by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett since the mid-1960s. Since the covenants governing buybacks were altered by Berkshire Hathaway's board in July 2018, he's green-lit the purchase of more than $74 billion worth of his company's shares.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 27, 2024

Those show up as wholly owned subsidiaries within the growing Berkshire conglomerate, as well as equity investments in its portfolio. He sold shares of Apple and revealed a stake in Chubb. He and his fellow portfolio managers also continued to add to Berkshire's significant stakes in Occidental Petroleum and Liberty Media.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Shares of Honeywell International (NASDAQ: HON) hit a new all-time high on Tuesday on news that activist investor Elliott Investment Management had amassed a more than $5 billion stake in the industrial conglomerate. For context, GE's market cap at the end of 2018 was a mere $41 billion.

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The Motley Fool

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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MARCH 3, 2024

of the conglomerate's portfolio. Berkshire increased its stake in Apple by more than 55%. Although Buffett kept on buying more Apple stock into the third quarter of 2018, he slammed on the brakes near the end of the year and trimmed Berkshire's position by 1.1%. And he has put his money where his mouth is through the years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The conglomerate is led by Warren Buffett, who famously said his favorite holding period for a stock is "forever." From 2018 to 2023, its operating earnings had a steady compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7%, from $24.8 But five years ago, it was trading at about 21 times its trailing operating earnings for 2018.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Against this backdrop, let's dig into some key takeaways from the conglomerate's third-quarter results to glean what's going on with Berkshire stock as well as what Buffett might be thinking about the current state of the stock market. Berkshire continues to pare down its stakes in top holdings Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Bank of America.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So investors take notice when Berkshire takes a stake in a company. The company has gone through some growing pains in recent years, and Berkshire patiently held its stake until the fourth quarter, when it dropped it. Horton were the other three) the conglomerate eliminated from its portfolio during the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

billion as of June 2018. For instance, AT&T sold a 30% stake in DirecTV to a private equity firm in 2021 for $7.8 This past September, the telecom divested the remaining 70% stake for $7.6 billion, putting behind it the last vestige of its attempt to become an entertainment conglomerate.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 1, 2024

Giving shareholders a bigger stake in everything Berkshire Hathaway owns Instead of adding to shares of anything in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio, Buffett views one of the best ways to increase investor's exposure to Berkshire's assets is through share repurchases. That stock is none other than Berkshire Hathaway itself.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

But there are still companies held in the investment conglomerate's stock portfolio that are capable of delivering market-crushing returns. Buffett's investment conglomerate currently owns a roughly 3.4% stake in the company. With Berkshire sporting a market capitalization of more than $783.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

In fact, he began building a sizable stake in the financial services giant in 2018 but exited the position in late 2020. In 2018, Buffett and Dimon teamed up in an attempt to convince CEOs to stop providing quarterly earnings guidance. However, in the first quarter, the conglomerate bought more than 9.9 It added over 2.5

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JULY 2, 2024

SPX data by YCharts British American Tobacco sold about $2 billion of its stake in Indian conglomerate ITC earlier this year. For some reason, shares of British American Tobacco traded at 24 times earnings at the start of 2018. Management plans to repurchase stock through the end of 2025.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Its three former executives accused of corruption were all employees of the Quebec institution in this region of the globe between 2018 and 2023. When did CDPQ dismiss former executives Cyril Cabanes, Deepak Malhotra and Saurabh Agarwal for their participation in an alleged bribery scheme involving Indian conglomerate Adani Group?

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