ANALYSIS STOCK MARKET: Warren Buffett

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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Books by and about Warren Buffett, George Soros, Carl Icahn, and T. Boone Pickens

Here is a list of books about the top investment traders Warren Buffett, the billionaire head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), George Soros, Carl Icahn, and T. Boone Pickens. Some are written by these famous investors and some are about them, written by others.

by Buffett

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel Warren E. Buffett (Collaborator)

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren E. Buffett (Author) Lawrence A. Cunningham (Author, Editor)

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition Warren E. Buffett (Foreword)

Los ensayos de Warren Buffett (Spanish Edition) Warren E. Buffett (Author)

Carl Icahn

King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist

Buffett, Icahn, Soros

Becoming Rich: The Wealth-Building Secrets of the World's Master Investors Buffett, Icahn, Soros

George Soros

Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros

The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros

T. Boone Pickens

The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future by T. Boone Pickens

Boone Pickens: The Luckiest Guy in the World by T. Boone Pickens

about Buffett

Trade Like Warren Buffett

The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros

The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor

Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor

The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management

By Stockerblog.com

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Final Result of the Warren Buffett Lunch Auction

The Warren Buffett Power Lunch Auction through eBay (EBAY) was completed last week. This was the auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), along seven friends. The auction was to benefit the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and its programs.

In case you missed it, the results are in. The lunch sold for $1,000,100.00, with 106 bids. Bidding started out at $25,000.

Unfortunately, this lunch didn't pull in as much as last year, when the auction was hammered at $3,456,789. What is interesting is that there were the same number of bids last year as there were this year.

As a matter of fact, the high bid this year didn't even come close to many of the previous years. In 2011, the Warren Buffett lunch went for $2,345,678, in 2010, the Buffett lunch sold for $2.6 million, and even in 2008, the lunch was auctioned off at $2 million.

Not sure why it is so low this year. Any thoughts?

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

A Smart Investment Strategy: Invest Like Warren Buffet

Known as the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet is the platinum standard by which investors only hope to measure themselves against. His knowledge of investing and the stock market has amazed those who have watched him make money no matter what the economy is like. His holding company of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) has what is known as the most valuable stock ever traded on the New York Stock Exchange and investors everywhere clamor to any news of his buying or selling of stock.

His portfolio is always public and if one were to examine it, you would see that his stocks are a reflection of his core attitude towards America and its values. He has always stated that America is still the best place in the world for a baby to be born and he has always tried to invest in the American companies that best demonstrate integrity, solid fundamentals, and a defensive strategy against the pitfalls of the economy. He likens his strategy to that of a castle with a wide moat as defense. The companies that have an impervious defense and a strong history of dividends can be found in Berkshire Hathaway. According to the database of Berkshire Hathaway stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, over 75% of the Warren Buffett companies pay dividends.

Although most of the companies in his portfolio are US based, they have a strong international presence, companies such as International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) which trades at 14 times earnings and yields 1.8%, and American Express (AXP), which trades at 19 times earnings and pays a dividend rate of 1.2%.

People often wonder how his investing strategy works and how he manages to make so much money. It’s pretty simple actually and he even tells you what he does. When everyone is selling, he buys, and when everyone is buying, he sells. It’s always been said that in order to make money in the stock market you buy low and sell high. In examining Warren Buffet’s strategy, he does exactly this. The fact that many people do not follow his investing advice is why his simple method seems so mysterious. Maybe Wall Street investors should actually take note of his advice and spend less time trying to make a quick dollar from trading and spend more time investing in a long term based ideology.

For a free list of stocks that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Monday, 3 June 2013

Books By and About Warren Buffett

As a continuation of our series this month on Warren Buffett, the billionaire head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), we are featuring a list of some of the top selling Warren Buffett books, some are written by him and some are about him.

by Buffett

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) Warren E. Buffett (Collaborator)

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren E. Buffett (Author) Lawrence A. Cunningham (Author, Editor)

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition Warren E. Buffett (Foreword)

Los ensayos de Warren Buffett (Spanish Edition) Warren E. Buffett (Author)

about Buffett

Trade Like Warren Buffett

The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros

The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor

Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor

The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management

If you missed the article on the Warren Buffett lunch auction on eBay (EBAY), you should check it out.

By Stockerblog.com

Sunday, 2 June 2013

It's Warren Buffett Month at Stockerblog.com

To celebrate the fact that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) just traded at the highest price ever at 172,450, and to celebrate the Warren Buffett Lunch Charity Auction this month, Stockerblog.com has decided to make the month of June Warren Buffett month.

We will try to feature at least a couple articles each week on Warren Buffett, the head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B).

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." ~ Warren Buffett

Saturday, 1 June 2013

How You Can Have Lunch with Warren Buffett

How would you like to have lunch with Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B)? Plus, you can bring seven of your friends along. Plus you get to pick Buffett's brain during the dinner, to get great investment advice. Well now you can.

An auction for this great opportunity will be held by eBay (EBAY), starting tomorrow. If you are the successful bidder, then Warren Buffett will host a lunch for you to benefit the GLIDE Foundation in San Francisco and its programs. The bidding begins June 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm PDT and close June 7, 2013 at 7:30 pm PDT. If you are the winning bidder, Warren Buffett will dine with you and up to seven friends at the Smith & Wollensky restaurant in New York City on a mutually agreed upon date.

All bidders must pre-qualify. The starting bid is $25,000. All of the proceeds from the winning bid will benefit GLIDE, one of the leading social service institutions working to alleviate human suffering and poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Where to Read Every Berkshire Hathaway Letter that Warren Buffett Ever Wrote

Some of the Berkshire Hathaway Letters to the Shareholders are available online, some were available in printed format. But now, the full, un-edited versions of every one of Warren Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway are available in the form of a 730 page book.

The book is called Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders and is compiled by Max Olson. The book was recently released on April 25, 2013.

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Thursday, 7 March 2013

The Stock that Traded for $1,512,500 per Share

Many people think that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock (BRK-A) is the highest priced stock that ever traded, as it currently sells for $155,114 per share. There are a couple of California bank stocks that trade for more than $10,000 per share. Then there are stocks like Bactolac Pharmaceutical (BTCA) is a company which makes and distributes vitamins, nutraceuticals, and private label nutritional supplements. The stock last traded at $100,000 per share on December 21.

Hwever, none of these stocks come close to the real winner. The company is Yahoo! Japan Corporation (YAHOY). According to the Shareholder Relations department for the Yahoo! Japan company, the highest price of the stock was 167.9 million Japanese Yen on Feb. 22, 2000, during the dot com boom. If you exchange the amount of Japanese Yen into US dollars at the exchange rate at that time (Approx USD1=JPY111.01), it was approximately $1,512,500 per share. Now the stock is down to 13.95 per share.

Yahoo! Japan is a Japanese Internet company formed as a joint venture between the American Internet company Yahoo! (YHOO) and the Japanese internet company SoftBank (SFTBF). It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Disclosure: Author owns YHOO.

By Stockerblog.com

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Warren Buffett's Recent Stock Purchases

Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) and one of the top four richest people in the world, is considered one of the top investors of all time. In January of 1990, Berkshire Hathaway was trading for 7455 a share. It is now, 152,750, an average annual return of almost 14%.

One technique that investors use is following in the footsteps of Buffett; in other words, check to see what companies Warren Buffett is acquiring and buying the same stocks. Let's look at Buffett's latest acquisitions.

Last quarter, Berkshire Hathaway bought Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the farm products company that markets protein meal, vegetable oil, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other food items. The stock trades at 15 times earnings and pays a decent yield of 2.4%. Quarterly dividends were increased last month by 8.6%. Earnings for the latest quarter skyrocketed 537.5% year-over-year, on a 6.9% rise in revenues.

Verisign (VRSN), the Internet infrastructure company, is another recent Buffett purchase. The stock trades at 24 times earnings. Earnings were up 96.3% for the latest quarter, n a 13% increase in sales. The company does not pay a dividend.

Buffett also owns Kraft Foods Group (KRFT), which owns such brands as Kraft, Maxwell House, Oscar Mayer, Planters, and JELL-O. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 18 and yields 4.1%. Earnings were down 77.8% for the latest quarter, on a 10.7% drop in revenues.

If you want a free list of Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway stocks, most of which pay dividends, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, which shows the stock ticker symbols, price to earnings ratios, and yields.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Five Stocks Trading above $4000 a Share

Some investors like low priced stocks, some like high priced stocks, some don't care what the price is as long as the stock price goes up. Here are five stocks that are trading above $4,000 a share.

Of course the most famous high price stock is Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) which is trading at $143,300 per share. The stock trades at 17.8 times current earnings.

Bactolac Pharmaceutical (BTCA) is a company which makes and distributes vitamins, nutraceuticals, and private label nutritional supplements. The stock last traded at $100,000 per share on December 21. Back in 2008, the stock traded as low as $24,050.

Ergo Science Corporation (ERGN) is a publisher of business information through printed magazines, Web sites, data services and directories. The stock last traded at $9,000 on January 3.

Highwater Ethanol (HEOL) last traded at $5,500 per share on March 22.

The Seibels Bruce Group (SBBG) is a provider of services to the insurance industry and offers automobile, flood, and other property and casualty insurance services. This stock is much more actively traded than most of the other above, as two shares traded today at $4300 per share.

If you like interesting stock lists like this, check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.