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Berkshire Hathaway Is Great. Here's Why You Shouldn't Buy It.

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In many ways, Berkshire Hathaway is more like a mutual fund than a traditional company. That's largely because of Warren Buffett's influence on the company. The company ended the first quarter with around $182 billion in cash on its balance sheet. That's larger than the market cap of most public companies.

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Is It Too Late to Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock?

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He took client money and used that cash to invest in other companies. When he disbanded the investment group, he basically shifted his approach to owning Berkshire Hathaway, a public company, and using it to invest in other businesses and companies. The investments include companies that Berkshire Hathaway owns outright.

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Meet the Stock-Split Stock I've More Than Quadrupled My Stake In This Year (Hint: It's Not Nvidia, Broadcom, or Chipotle Mexican Grill)

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In December 2023, Liberty Media announced that its Sirius XM tracking stock, Liberty Sirius XM Group (NASDAQ: LSXMA) (NASDAQ: LSXMB) (NASDAQ: LSXMK) would be merged with Sirius XM Holdings to create a new public company ("New Sirius XM") with a single outstanding share class. billion shares outstanding.

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A 401(k) Is a Great Resource for Retirement, but It's Overrated

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You'll typically get to choose between market cap-based funds (large, mid, or small), your company's stock (if it's a public company), a handful of bond options, and target-date funds assembled based on your projected retirement year. For many people, those options are good enough; for others, not so much.

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5 Magnificent ETFs to Buy Hand Over Fist for the Second Half of 2023

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Exchange-traded funds offer a number of advantages, such as instant diversification or concentration with the click of a button. For investors who may not have the time to research individual companies, can't stomach a volatile market, or who simply want to complement their existing investment strategy, ETFs can be a smart place to turn.

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This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company Could Be the Next to Join Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet in the $1 Trillion Club, According to Wall Street

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One of the longest tenured bulls on electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is an investor named Ron Baron. Baron is mutual fund manager and longtime supporter of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. For much of its history as a public company, Tesla has traded in its own orbit.

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Is Berkshire Hathaway's A Share Class a Buy?

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Then there's the investments in other public companies, which tallied up to $280 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024. That's down from $350 billion at the end of 2023, because Warren Buffett has been selling stock in companies like Bank of America and Apple. data by YCharts.