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Warren Buffett says these are the very best businesses to own Never forget the basics. While we’re constantly bombarded with confusing investment mumbo jumbo, we should never forget that companies largely exist for one main reason: to take capital from investors and earn a return on it. That’s why it makes sense for investors to look for businesses, with durable competitive advantages, that are able to consistently deliver high returns on capital. As Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett… Source link

Warren Buffett is hanging on to these stocks for stable income — you could too In a world of historically low interest rates, investors would be wise to look out for dividend stocks offering attractive — but stable — dividend yields. High-yield dividend stocks have the potential to Offer a plump income stream in both good times and bad times. Provide much-needed diversification to growth-oriented portfolios. Outperform the S&P 500 over the long haul. Of course, there’s no better place for… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, August 9, 2021 Berkshire Hathaway’s own shares were Berkshire’s big buy in the second quarter Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) released its quarterly results on Saturday morning.  Total revenue for the conglomerate hit $69.1 billion in the second quarter while earnings per share came in at $18,488 per Class A share.  But as has been the… Source link

Billionaires like Warren Buffett are exploiting this retirement account — you can, too Here’s one trick you can easily copy from the world’s wealthiest. After all, it was designed for you in the first place. Tycoons like Warren Buffett and PayPal founder Peter Thiel have been hoarding millions or even billions of dollars in tax-sheltered retirement accounts, according to a recent report from ProPublica. Leaked tax documents show Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), originally created to… Source link

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images) Investing icon Warren Buffett has now pledged half of his Berkshire Hathaway shares to (BRK-B, BRK-A) to charity, giving another $4.1 billion to five foundations as part of his long-standing annual commitment to philanthropy.  “Today is a milestone… Source link

Crypto investing pioneer and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz has stacked up billions of dollars by making bold bets on digital assets. He’s built up his crypto ecosystem company Galaxy Digital (BRPHF) into something akin to a crypto Berkshire Hathaway (if there were such an equivalent in crypto) through investments in promising blockchain projects and his recent record setting $1.2 billion acquisition of custody giant BitGo. And similar to the way equity investors turn to… Source link

Bitcoin’s in a slump — here’s why Warren Buffett has hated it all along The past month and a half has been bumpy for Bitcoin. After a bully first quarter of 2021 that led to an all-time peak of $63,000 per unit in mid-April, the world’s leading digital currency has since lost more than 40% of its value, settling at just over $35,000 on Friday, May 28. Holdout investors who only a couple of months ago may have thought they’d missed an opportunity of a lifetime are now sighing with relief;… Source link

Very few people in the world could call investing legend Warren Buffett a good friend. Tampa Bay Buccaneers star defenseman and investing fanatic Ndamukong Suh is one of those people. Suh, 34, told Yahoo Finance Presents he has learned tons of invaluable investing lessons from the now 90-year-old Oracle of Omaha, but one in particular stands out.  “Probably the most important one [lesson] that I learned from him is focusing on the people,” Suh said. “People are the most important thing about… Source link

Some praise by Warren Buffett’s potential successor as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has investors eating up shares of Kraft Heinz (KHC).  Shares of the mac and cheese maker have surged to a 52-week high, according to Yahoo Finance Plus data. The stock is up a tasty 6% so far in May, outperforming the 2% drop for the S&P 500.  The gain is even more impressive considering packaged food stocks have traded sideways of late, pressured by the one-two punch of inflation fears and concerns about demand… Source link

Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Any business proposition is worthwhile for the right price  In one of the more light-hearted moments of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday, Ajit Jain, vice chairman of Insurance Operations, was asked if he’d be willing to underwrite the insurance to cover Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to Mars, assuming Musk asked. “This is an easy one,” Jain said…. Source link