Tag: repurchase

BRK

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“Berkshire has repurchased about 1% of its outstanding shares during each quarter in 2021. Its current market value is around $648 billion. Berkshire has repurchased $20.2 billion of stock so far in 2021 and is on pace for about $27 billion for the full year, above the $24.7 billion repurchased in 2020.”

https://www.barrons.com/articles/berkshire-hathaway-stock-price-earnings-51636202458

If you’re in a secular bull market in oil and the offer side on new assets is too high you should be shrinking the denominator, right?

The Fine Print

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Two items brought up by readers in the past 24 hours:

#1: White card lays down a footnote to make clear their opinion on where the vote stands.  We start with an excerpt from the letter that Barry and Norris sent to HK and Tessler:

While we were pleased to receive the recommendation from ISS yesterday, we understand that this will remain a close election.1

Here is the corresponding footnote.

1         SoftVest, L.P., Horizon Kinetics LLC and ART-FGT Family Partners disagree with this statement.

 

#2:  The following two statements can be found in the recently published 10-Q.  The two, when read together, indicate that the Trust didn’t repurchase any shares in all of April.  A few possibilities come to mind: 1) the Trust is somehow restricted on the stock due to the pending vote, 2) the Trust is dedicating marginal cash to PP&E, or 3) Trust management is avoiding further concentrating the ownership stakes of those that they consider dissidents.  Must be a pretty big deal to deviate from a capital return strategy that is decades/centuries in the making and we know the balance sheet is anything but cash poor.

Sub-share Certificates in Certificates of Proprietary Interest, par value $.03 1/3 each; outstanding 7,756,156 and 7,762,414 Sub-share Certificates as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively

As of April 30, 2019, the Registrant had 7,756,156 Sub-share Certificates outstanding.