The world's greatest investor of all time - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) chairman Warren Buffett - has a real distaste for dividends. It may surprise you to hear that.
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July 31 - Hedge Funds
What does this mean? It means we - the consumer - are swiping our cards again, and more often as time goes on! I suppose you might want to own a company to benefit from this macro...
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July 29 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA), Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) shares hit an all-time high on July 8. The other three large U.S.
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July 29 - News
The news that Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) is exiting the mortgage joint venture arena is grabbing headlines, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.
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July 29 - News
Since 1992, my family has held season tickets for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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July 29 - News
Back in late May, MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), made a $5.59 billion offer to buy NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NVE).
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) growth over the last year would be impressive, at least, if you ignored the upward drift of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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July 29 - News
Warren Buffett will turn 83 in August, which means that according to the Social Security Administration's period life table, the world's greatest living investor will have a 91...
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July 27 - News
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE:HIG) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and the insurance company's prospects have been looking increasingly favorable lately...
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July 25 - News
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) has delivered truly amazing returns for investors who were smart enough to invest with Buffett and Munger for the long term.
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July 24 - News
Many popular consumer brands are owned by a parent company that you've never heard of.
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July 24 - News
The incredible bull market fed by Ben Bernanke's monetary stimulus has inflated the prices of many stocks well beyond their intrinsic value.
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July 24 - News
Last year, ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) spun out its downstream assets last year as Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) in order to focus more on its exploration and production operations.
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July 23 - Stock Analysis
A slew of corporate earnings announcements have recently marked the opening session of Q2 earnings.
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July 23 - News
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined in a ceremony opening a new customer service center for the Geico insurance company in suburban Indianapolis.
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July 22 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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July 19 - Hedge Funds
On July 16, giant beverage company The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) released its quarterly report.
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July 18 - News
The wind of change is blowing through the headquarters of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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July 18 - News
For those of you keeping track, remember that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD) already completed a $20 million share repurchase program last fiscal year, and Monday's press ...
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July 17 - News
Fool columnist Alyce Lomax wrote a great article on Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) this week, and it got me to thinking.
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July 17 - News
The deal not only unsettled investors by employing a combination of cash and stock, but it was also significantly larger than the typically small acquisitions that President and...
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July 17 - News
One of the better known investment rules of Mr. Buffett is to only invest in companies with sufficiently wide economic moats.
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July 17 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 15 - Hedge Funds
The Progressive Corporation (NYSE:PGR) will release its June earnings report on Thursday, but shareholders haven't waited to start the celebration.
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July 15 - News
This weekend's horrific railcar explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has drawn sudden attention to the rapidly expanding use of railcars to transport crude oil from where it's ...
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July 15 - News
Over on MarketWatch, a site run by the Wall Street Journal, Paul Merriman recently published an article entitled Warren Buffett: More myth than legend.
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July 15 - News
The share price is lower than it was during the apex of the financial crisis.
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July 12 - News
On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett just gave a total of 22,870,529 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 12 - News
Mr. Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) is famous for his unique investment theses.
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July 11 - News
Back in 2005, just before Gillette was acquired by The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), Warren Buffett said that he just loves to wake up in the morning knowing there were ...
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July 10 - News
OK, so you've seen the epic market-cap duel between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM).
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July 10 - News
Imagine if you had been one of the fortunate few to invest in Warren Buffett's young company back in 1967, when shares were trading for $20.50.
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July 9 - News
He came from an oil and gas pedigree. His father worked as a landman leasing oil and mineral rights in Oklahoma.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
To paraphrase the Oracle of Omaha, "That 100 shares of stock doesn't know that you own it." I've echoed that philosophy on occasion, telling clients that a hundred shares of...
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July 8 - Stock Analysis
Warren Buffett has been nothing short of a master dealmaker for the better part of five decades now.
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July 8 - News
According to government statistics, the U.S. has added an average of 172,000 jobs per month for the last year.
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July 5 - News
If you've read some of my musings here at the Fool, you're probably aware I have no qualms extolling the virtues of Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL).
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July 5 - News
No investor is a bigger superstar than Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A)'s Warren Buffett.
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July 5 - News
Insurance companies have created an entire industry based upon risk, and except for American International Group, Inc.
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July 5 - News
As many of us know, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) is generating an increasing amount of cash.
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July 3 - News
I believe the most commonly used non-GAAP term in the financial industry is the metric of EBITDA.
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July 3 - News
There are many ways to play a housing rebound.
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July 3 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), American International Group, Inc.
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
A friend of mine was recently telling me about his investment in The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO).
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July 2 - News
Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE:THO) is the largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles (RVs) in the world. The company has a 36.1% share of the total RV market.
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July 2 - News
Recently, Barron’s released the world’s most respected companies, featuring 100 companies.
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July 2 - News
On multiple occasions, Warren Buffett has bluntly admitted that Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 2 - News
