Berkshire Hathway

Q2 operating profit rose 15 per cent to $11.6 bn, about $8,073 per Class A share, from $10.04 bn year earlier, with nearly half coming from underwriting, investments in Berkshire's insurance business

The conglomerate's retreat from Activision completes Buffett's arbitrage play amid the video-game maker's prolonged effort to merge with Microsoft Corp.

Buffett's company had acquired 225 million BYD shares in 2008, giving it a 7.73% stake, equal to the 20.49% stake in H shares, according to BYD's annual report

Alleghany, the owner of reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings, would expand Berkshire's large portfolio of insurers

Wells Fargo & Co. shares delivered a total return of 61% last year, outpacing every other company listed in the most recent public snapshot of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s portfolio, as of Sept. 30

Buffett has struggled with a high-class problem of having too much money in Berkshire's pockets and not enough chances to put that to work in higher-returning assets.

Buffett has struggled in recent years to keep up with Berkshire's ever-gushing cash flow

Sebi rules prescribe that promoters cannot hold more than 75 per cent in a company

Berkshire's fourth-quarter buybacks boosted the company's overall stock repurchases to $24.7 billion in 2020, five times the record from a year earlier

Berkshire's recently been expanding its hunting horizons, with its $6 billion bet on Japanese trading houses and even a stake in the newly public Snowflake Inc.

Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, has loved few things more in his life than sweets, soda and compound interest - but banking stocks have come pretty close

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Saturday that it earned $26.3 billion, or $16,314 per Class A share, during the second quarter

Shares of Ambani's conglomerate have more than doubled since a low in March as its digital unit got more than $15 billion in investments from companies including Facebook and Silver Lake

Most readers will have heard of Mr Buffett. Mr Portnoy is a 43-year-old, mainly famous for setting up the popular American blog, Barstool Sports

Buffett's comments come a day after JPMorgan & Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he regrets calling bitcoin a fraud

The results were released one day before Berkshire's annual meeting in Omaha

Berkshire Hathaway substantially increased its holdings of Apple stock in the December quarter