June 17, 2013: Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
By Thinking Big:It's no secret that Warren Buffett is one of the best investors of all time, and it's also no secret that Buffett has been increasing his share count in American Express (AXP). Buffett has built his holding up to around 10% of...
June 17, 2013: Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
By Saibus Research:We have been analyzing and evaluating the newspaper companies that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B, BRK.A) has invested in the past and has invested in recently over the last twelve months. We have analyzed and...
June 16, 2013: Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
By Eli Inkrot:I don't think I'd surprise anyone by suggesting that I'm a fan of Warren Buffett's investing philosophy. If I had to guess I'd say around half of my Seeking Alpha articles make some mention of him, I regularly quote tidbits of his...
Filed under: Investing
While many investors avoid investing in banks, much of Warren Buffett's success has come from his investments in the financial sector. What gives Buffett the confidence to commit billions of dollars to an industry that...
My Sunday pre-brunch reading:
• What if the Secular Bear market isn’t over? (Business Insider) but see In Battle of the Market Timers, the Bulls Get It Right (WSJ)
• Bill Gates: Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett...
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." These words spoken by Warren Buffett come to mind when looking at how much people across the world pay for health care.
Are the nations that pay much more for health care...
Jack Bogle, the outspoken godfather of index funds and passive investing strategies, didn't approve of a recent Wall Street Journal article defending hedge funds. In particular, he took issue with the author's reference to Benjamin Graham, the...
Several months ago, I was walking in my bedroom, and in a stack of books that we frequently give as gifts, I saw the book Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond. I said to myself, where did this come from? I looked at it, and...
Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A, BRK.B) new commercial property & casualty insurance unit has commenced operations. "It's official: We are moving into commercial insurance in a substantial way," says Warren Buffett. He suggested as much last month,...
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"Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports."
-- Warren Buffett
I'm not quite as fanatical as Warren, but I do enjoy digging into a company's annual report to learn something new. Especially for companies I...
June 13, 2013: Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
By Ian Wyatt: The most influential value investor in Canada stood at a podium in front of a few hundred people at a conference in Las Vegas last month and opened with the following line: “Stocks pop when I speak about them in a public forum.” He...
I keep coming back to the question, "how much is enough?"
Now you may think that's a pretty ironic question coming from the son of one of the richest people in the world. But actually, it might just make me an expert on the subject. You see, my dad...
$$$ When Tracy Britt arrived in Omaha, Neb., in 2009 to meet with Warren Buffett, she brought a Harvard M.B.A., a glittering resume and a boatload of ambition. But she also brought the famed investor a gift to highlight their shared Midwestern...
June 11, 2013: Long Investing Ideas from Seeking Alpha
ByDaniel Philip:
Introduction
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
- Warren Buffett
Graco Inc. (GGG) designs, manufactures and markets systems and equipment to pump, meter, mix...
Back in 1991, Warren Buffett met Bill Gates, though as he tells career community website Levo League, neither of them were excited to see one another. But it turned out they had a great time talking—and during the course of the conversation,...
June 10, 2013: Long Investing Ideas from Seeking Alpha
By Devon Shire: The older I get, the more I envy Warren Buffett's "one decision" purchase of Coca-Cola (KO).In the late 1980's Buffett realized that the shares of Coca-Cola were very attractively priced relative to the long run of growth that the...
Filed under: Coca-Cola Company, Warren Buffett, InvestingDaniel Acker/Bloomberg
Now that stocks have started to sell off and interest rates have begun to rise, many investors are again looking for great stocks at bargain prices, and those in Warren...
Bargain-basement Buffett: After five years of climbing prices to win the annual "lunch with the Oracle of Omaha" auction - last year's winner paid $3.46M - the winning bid this year was a relatively measly $1,000,100. According to eBay there were...
June 8, 2013: Long Investing Ideas from Seeking Alpha
By Ingrid Hendershot: We attended the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) annual meeting held on May 4, 2013 in Omaha along with about 40,000 other folks from around the globe who gathered once again for the Woodstock for Capitalists. Warren Buffett,...