{"id":341,"date":"2013-10-17T06:57:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=341"},"modified":"2013-10-17T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:57:28","slug":"berkshire-hathaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway, the name says it all. This is the investment company lead by Warren Buffet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirehathaway.com\/\">www.berkshirehathaway.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very humble website, from the most respected investor in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>top 10 holdings<\/strong> in listed companies are:<\/p>\n<p>Wells Fargo = <strong>21.47% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 463,131,623 shares<br \/>\nCoca Cola Co = <strong>18.02% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 400,000,000 shares<br \/>\nIBM = <strong>14.62% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 68,121,984 shares<br \/>\nAmerican Express = <strong>12.73% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 151,610,700 shares<br \/>\nProcter &amp; Gamble = <strong>4.57% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 52,793,078 shares<br \/>\nWal-Mart Stores = <strong>4.12% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 49,247,235 shares<br \/>\nU.S. Bancorp = <strong>3.18% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 78,277,301 shares<br \/>\nDIRECTV Group Inc = <strong>2.58% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 37,275,400 shares<br \/>\nDaVita HealthCare Partners = <strong>2.03% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 29,947,812 shares<br \/>\nPhillips 66 = <strong>1.80% of the BH Portfolio<\/strong> = 27,163,918 shares<\/p>\n<p>Total Number of stocks held by Berkshire Hathaway is <strong>42<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe value = $89,031,205,000 = <strong>$89 Billion<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Financials<\/strong> make up = <strong>40.86%<\/strong> of the Portfolio<\/p>\n<p>The shares are 2 classes of stock, A and B<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire A [http:\/\/www.nyse.com\/about\/listed\/lcddata.html?ticker=brk.a]<br \/>\nBerkshire B [http:\/\/www.nyse.com\/about\/listed\/lcddata.html?ticker=brk.b]<br \/>\nThis explains the difference:<br \/>\n[<a title=\"Class A and Class B difference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirehathaway.com\/compab.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.berkshirehathaway.com\/compab.pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A share of Class B common stock has the rights of <strong>1\/1,500th<\/strong> of a share of Class A common stock<br \/>\nexcept that a Class B share has <strong>1\/10,000th<\/strong> of the voting rights of a Class A share.<\/p>\n<p>Class A share price analysis of the shareprice.<\/p>\n<p>27 Oct 1993 = $17,100<br \/>\n24 Oct 2006 = $100,000<br \/>\n9 Oct 2013 = $168,075<\/p>\n<p>Today the share price is about <strong>$171,295<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine owning one share in Berkshire Hathaway in the 1980s&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett insists on keeping at least <strong>$20 billion<\/strong> in <strong>cash<\/strong> on Berkshire&#8217;s balance sheet at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant investor, a long term value investor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway, the name says it all. This is the investment company lead by Warren Buffet. www.berkshirehathaway.com A very humble website, from the most respected investor in the world. The top 10 holdings in listed companies are: Wells Fargo = 21.47% of the BH Portfolio = 463,131,623 shares Coca Cola Co = 18.02% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}