Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC Berkshire Hathaway reported a big decline in its operating earnings for the fourth quarter, due in large part to weakness in the conglomerate’s insurance business. Earnings from operations totaled $10.2 billion…
State Farm on Thursday announced a historic $5 billion dividend for its car insurance members, the largest in the mutual insurance company’s 103-year history. “This dividend is possible due to State Farm Mutual’s financial strength and a stronger than expected underwriting performance, which has been reported industry wide,” the company said in a statement. Customers…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire was a net seller of stocks in Buffett’s final quarter as CEO Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Berkshire has sold Apple shares…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Feb. 18 1. Meta commits to buying millions of Nvidia chips for its AI data centers. It’s kind of like the old days when all of the hyperscalers clamored for Nvidia’s chips. The long knives had been out for Nvidia, but shares added almost 2% this morning. Meta was flat….
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO likes the surprise course reversal announced this week by the new CEO of Kraft Heinz. In the food company’s Q4 earnings…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire Hathaway’s stock outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 stock index this week as investors sought safety from a sell-off for technology stocks sparked by concerns that…
As Warren Buffett was appearing live on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday, February 24, 2020, futures were pointing to a drop of 3% for the stock market when it opened due to fears of a coronavirus pandemic. Buffett, however, wasn’t worried. He was, in fact, happy that stock prices would be going down. BECKY QUICK:…
CAROL LOOMIS: To what extent do the changing dynamics in the consumer food market change your view on the long-term potential for Kraft Heinz? WARREN BUFFETT: Yeah, actually, what I said was, we paid too much for Heinz — I mean Kraft — I’m sorry — the Heinz part of the transaction, when we originally…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Buffett talks about almost everything Warren Buffett and Becky Quick covered too many topics in the interviews that aired in a two-hour special…
Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC In the final stretch of his tenure atop Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett was still pursuing that elusive elephant. The 95-year-old legendary investor, who handed over the CEO reins to Greg Abel…
