Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway has ended the year with a record profit of 32%. Net income rose to $5.48 billion, or $3,333 a share, from $4.16 billion, or $2,529, a year earlier, the company said Saturday in a statement. Operating earnings, which exclude some investment results, were $2,843 a share, beating the average $2,814 estimate of three analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
In 2014, Berkshire Hathaway stocks BRKA topped at $200K per share. Yes this is true! One share of Berkshire Hathaway stock BRKA was selling at $200K. There are investors who love to have BRKA in their stock protfolio. As of today, BRKA is selling at $198,190.50 per share. So you can see there has not been much gyration in the price of BRKA over the last 2 years. This stability is what makes BRKA a good investment for many investors in their portfolio.
Warren Buffet is a legend of investing and is popularly also known as the Sage of Omaha. People love him for his simple lifestyle. You can watch this 1 hour documentary on the life and achievements of Warren Buffet. This 1 hour video documentary will help you understand the man and his investing style.
Benjamin Graham made a great impression on Warren Buffet at an early age when he read his book, ” The Intelligent Investor”. In this book, “The Intelligent Investor”, Ben Graham talked about the intrinsic value of the stock and gave the concept of Value Investing.
Over the years, Warren Buffet applied the concepts that he learned in the book, “The Intelligent Investor” in his investing. Warren Buffet is now famous for his investing style: Value Investing. He looks for long term value in the company. When he thinks that the company has got long term value, he calculates the intrinsic value of the stock. You can think of the intrinsic value of the stock as the long term value of that stock. In the short term the stock can trade below and above that price but in the long term it should have that value. If the stock is trading at a price higher than the intrinsic value, he waits for the time when the stock price will plummet below the intrinsic value. When that time comes he invests big time in that stock. Warren Buffet loves to hold the stocks that he owns in his portfolio for a long term horizon. He does not fears the short term volatility. You can watch these videos in which the value investing principles used by him are explained in great detail. In these videos you will learn how Warren Buffet calculates the Intrinsic Value of a stock and what he looks for when he evaluates a company.
There are some stocks that Warren Buffet is not going to sell. In this post we give you the details of the 4 stocks that Warren wont sell. 2 stocks are Coke and IBM. You can read the above post to learn about the other 2 stocks and why Warren Buffet is not going to sell these 4 stocks. If you are a stock investor, you should watch the above videos. This will help you a lot in understanding how Warren Buffet makes his stock investing decisions. This will help you become a better stock investor.