Warren Buffett’s new annual letter to shareholders is out. This is a far different read than a year ago. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) said its annual shareholder value rose by 19.8%, a figure which would be great most years but was short of the return of the S&P 500 Index. Book value per [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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SkillSoft plc (NASDAQ: SKIL) may seem like an unusual buyout candidate for a private equity group. The company offers on-demand distance-learning over the web or teleconference and performance support solutions for large enterprise groups, government agencies, education, and small to mid-sized businesses. Shares are up this morning after an investor group including Berkshire Partners LLC, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
We are still seeing many companies trying to capitalize off of raising capital or where holders are registering shares. Companies like Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ: CPST), Labopharm, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDSS) Puda Coal Inc
There was an interesting filing out during the Christmas holiday showing that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) weren’t in the holiday spirit for much of 2008. There were 21,000 fewer employees at Berkshire Hathaway entities in 2009 compared to 2008’s 246,000 employees. Bloomberg called this “a slump at its manufacturing and retail units.” [[ This is a content summary only
It wasn’t that long ago that we had given a list of stocks that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) needed to dump to help pay for its Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI) acquisition. And to trim its equity portfolio. Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) was one of those stocks. He had already lightened [[ This is a content summary only.
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Warren Buffett is dumping Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO). We’ll never know until it is already done whether the Oracle of Omaha wants to jettison it entirely from the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A), but he has already lightened up twice in his stake, most recently this last week. If you listened to Buffett [[ This is a content summary only.
We always knew that Warren Buffett loved the railroad stocks. We also had for years heard Buffett talk about the prospects of a “whale of a deal” in large acquisitions.
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) may control most of the global router and enterprise video conferencing business, but it wants a bigger footprint in home video delivery. Silicon Valley’s biggest M&A machine has snapped up China set-top box company DVN for $44.5 billion
