Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2024.CNBCBerkshire Hathaway dumped more Bank of America shares this week, making it six straight trading days that Warren Buffett's conglomerate has reduced its stake in the bank.The Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company sold another 18.9...
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: CrowdStrike — The cybersecurity stock dropped 4% after Guggenheim downgraded CrowdStrike to neutral from buy, saying the company is unlikely to emerge unscathed from the global outage. Nvidia — Shares gained 2% after Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter,...
Berkshire Hathaway has reduced a sizable chuck of share count through buybacks in recent years as Warren Buffett views the repurchase program as an effective way to reward long-term shareholders. Over the past five and a half years (22 quarters), the conglomerate has repurchased nearly $75 billion worth of...
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBCWarren Buffett on Friday made his biggest annual donation to date, giving $5.3 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five charities.The legendary investor, who's turning 94 in August, converted 8,674 of his...
Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024.David A. GroganWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has scooped up more shares of Occidental Petroleum over each of the past nine trading sessions, driving his gigantic stake in the Houston-based oil...
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday that global insurer and recently revealed Warren Buffett mystery stock Chubb is still undervalued. Cramer called Chubb — selling at 12 times forward earnings — "ridiculous" given the stock's 19% year-to-date rise and nearly 40% gain over the past 12 months. "This stock is...
One of the messages that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway's top insurance executive, Ajit Jain, sent to investors during the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha last month was that cyber insurance, while currently profitable, still has too many unknowns and risks for Berkshire, a huge player in the...
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. CNBCWarren Buffett finally revealed his secret stock pick in a new regulatory filing, and it's insurer Chubb.His conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway has bought nearly 26 million shares of Zurich-based Chubb for a stake worth...
Warren Buffett isn't jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon just yet, warning about the technology's potential for harm."When you think about the potential for scamming people ... if I was interested in investing in scamming, it's gonna be the growth industry of all time and it's enabled, in a...
Tim Cook and Warren BuffettGetty Images (L) | CNBC (R)Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett was still using a flip phone as late as 2020, four years after his investment behemoth started amassing a huge stake in the company that makes iPhones."I don't understand the phone at all, but I do...