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All told, Berkshire (BRK.B) bought back $27B of its own shares in 2021, up from the $24.7B it repurchased in ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/news/3806245-berkshire-hathaway-buys-back-69b-of-stock-in-q4-operating-earnings-rise-45\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/news/3806245-berkshire-hathaway-buys-back-69b-of-stock-in-q4-operating-earnings-rise-45","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1113266874","content_text":"Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) (NYSE:BRK.A) bought back $6.9B of its shares in Q4 2021. All told, Berkshire (BRK.B) bought back $27B of its own shares in 2021, up from the $24.7B it repurchased in 2020.Q4 operating earnings of $7.29B vs. $6.47B in Q3 and $5.02B in Q4, a 45% Y/Y jump as insurance underwriting reversed from a year-ago loss. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”Read the full letter here：To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”The Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. 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The 91-yea","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”Read the full letter here：To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”The Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. 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href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DIDI\">滴滴</a>跌5.36%；</p>\n<p>其他中概股方面，微博涨1.08%，雾芯科技涨1.22%。造车新势力齐跌，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌0.04%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌1.71%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>跌1.83%。</p>\n<p>3、欧股主要指数上涨 英国股市圣诞节假期休市</p>\n<p>欧洲时间周一，欧股主要指数上涨，截止收盘，德国DAX30指数涨0.50%；法国CAC40指数涨0.76%。英国股市因圣诞节假期休市。</p>\n<p>4、投资者愿购买被认为有风险的资产 美油收高2.4%</p>\n<p>尽管人们担心奥密克戎变异毒株在美国迅速大规模传播，但投资者似乎愿意购买被认为有风险的资产，使油价依然得到支撑。</p>\n<p>5、黄金期货周一收跌0.2% 守住1800美元关口</p>\n<p>进入2021年的最后一周，黄金期货周一收跌，结束了此前连续三个交易日上涨的行情，但成功守住了重要的心理价位1800美元。</p>\n<p>上周五纽约商品交易所因圣诞节休市。</p>\n<p>在因节假日缩短交易的一周内，黄金期货价格累计上涨0.4%，创11月19日以来的最高收盘价。据FactSet 数据，今年迄今黄金期货下跌了4.6%。</p>\n<p>6、土耳其里拉结束五连涨 埃尔多安的保证看似不管用</p>\n<p>土耳其里拉结束连续五天的上涨行情，虽然当局在一周前出台旨在遏制里拉下跌的措施并信誓旦旦说里拉走势坚挺，但投资者并不买账。</p>\n<p>伊斯坦布尔时间下午6：37，里拉兑美元下跌7.2%至1美元兑11.4665里拉，稍早一度跌至11.5831里拉。今年以来，里拉贬值幅度超过35%，是2021年跌幅最大的新兴市场货币。</p>\n<p>上周五，土耳其总统埃尔多安表示，在采取多项措施支持里拉，包括推出新工具来保护里拉存款持有人后，里拉币值将“逐步”稳定。央行的数据也表明，当局一直在干预外汇市场，里拉上周上涨54%，扭转了前周下跌15%的势头。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登表示没有联邦解决方案 需要在州一级解决新冠激增问题</p>\n<p>美国总统拜登总统承诺帮助那些在omicron变体中苦苦挣扎的州长，但承认各州需要带头控制大流行。</p>\n<p>拜登在与美国一些州长会面之前说，“没有联邦解决方案。这(需要)在州一级得到解决。”</p>\n<p>2、食品价格将全面上涨 美国通胀压力难以消退</p>\n<p>美国许多食品制造商表示，计划在2022年提高从通心粉和奶酪零食等一系列食品的价格，消费者将继续面对物价上涨的情况。</p>\n<p>食品杂货经销商和零售商SpartanNash的首席执行官Tony Sarsam表示，食品价格全部都在上涨，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/000061\">农产品</a>、奶制品以及面包和果汁等食品明年将会变得更加昂贵。</p>\n<p>3、美国因新冠肺炎的儿童住院率迅速增长</p>\n<p>根据美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)和美国卫生与公众服务部(HHS)的数据。</p>\n<p>在截至12月24日的一周内，美国平均每天有262名儿童因新冠肺炎住院接受治疗，住院人数比一周前增加了近35%，比8月底至9月初有342名儿童在医院就诊的峰值平均值仅低23%。</p>\n<p>4、冬季风暴叠加新冠疫情 美国大批航班取消的情况延续到周一</p>\n<p>圣诞节周末打乱美国人出行计划的航班取消问题延续到周一，在航空公司本就因新冠肺炎病例激增而人手不足的情况下，冬季风暴更是令他们雪上加霜。</p>\n<p>5、日本启动首批原油抛储招标 强调密切盯市伺机再出手</p>\n<p>在2021年的最后一周，日本政府终于出手，加入了全球抛售原油储备的队伍。</p>\n<p>根据媒体报道，日本经济产业省发布了一份提供储备阿曼原油的政府招标文件，目前这些原油储存在九州志布志市，预定的交付日期为明年三月至六月。</p>\n<p>政府官员接受媒体采访时表示，这一举措也是日本协同其他原油消费国的抛储计划的一部分，后续将会有更多的动作。</p>\n<p>6、美国纽约市私营企业员工新冠疫苗强制令生效</p>\n<p>美国纽约市对私营企业雇员的新冠疫苗强制令正式生效。从27日起，该市所有私营企业必须要求所有员工提供新冠疫苗接种证明，并准备好文件供市政官员检查。</p>\n<p>在纽约市报告了首例新冠变异病毒奥密克戎毒株感染病例后，纽约市市长比尔·德布拉<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SIAL\">西奥</a>(Bill de Blasio)于12月6日宣布了该疫苗强制令。据悉，该疫苗强制令将影响纽约市总计18.5万家企业，不遵守该规定的企业将面临最低1000美元的罚款。</p>\n<p>7、德国累计确诊超700万、死亡11万 多州收紧防疫措施</p>\n<p>德国疾控机构27日公布的数据显示，该国累计确诊感染新冠病毒病例数已突破七百万，因感染新冠死亡的人数则已于日前突破十一万。当天，德国巴符州、下萨克森州等多州宣布开始实施限制人际接触等较此前更为严厉的防疫措施。</p>\n<p>8、英国援助组织：2021年十大气象灾害造成1700亿损失，最严重为飓风“艾达”</p>\n<p>一家英国援助组织当天发布报告称，气象灾害今年给全球造成巨大损失。具体而言，今年破坏最严重的十大气象灾害共计造成1700多亿美元损失，比去年破坏最严重的10起气象灾害所造成的损失高出200亿美元。</p>\n<p>市场观点</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194078091\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌A年内大涨近七成 其他大型科技股只能“望其项背”</a></p>\n<p>从股价来看，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>(母公司Alphabet即将录得其自2009年以来最好的一年，并即将成为2021年表现最好的大型科技股。</p>\n<p>根据Refinitiv调查，谷歌全年收入预计将攀升39%，达到2540亿美元，势将录得自2007年以来的最大营收增长。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194071541\" target=\"_blank\">困于利润下降及盗窃案激增 美国大型零售连锁店开始闭店</a></p>\n<p>美国几家大型零售商宣布关闭多个城市的门店，理由有很多，从不断变化的消费者态度和未来的健康需求到犯罪率飙升的问题。</p>\n<p>多家零售商开始转向电子商务以提高利润。CVS Health 在 11 月宣布，它计划关闭其近 10000 家门店中的约 9%，并在未来三年内每年进一步关闭 300 家门店。Rite Aid 还表示将关闭 63 家门店，以降低成本并提高利润。 CVS特别指出，大多数客户转向数字偏好促使公司重新考虑其实体存在。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194297488\" target=\"_blank\">苹果关闭所有纽约零售店 避免线下聚集</a></p>\n<p>苹果现在决定关闭纽约市的所有门店。</p>\n<p>此前，由于新冠肺炎在员工中传播，苹果关闭了亚特兰大、休斯顿和新罕布什尔等地的7家门店。</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" 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08:12</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<blockquote>\n 摘要：①美股四连涨，纳指涨1.39%，新能源汽车股集体走强，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TSLA\">特斯拉</a>涨2.5%；②投资者愿购买被认为有风险的资产，美油收高2.4%；③食品价格将全面上涨，美国通胀压力难以消退。\n</blockquote>\n<p>海外市场</p>\n<p>1、道指收涨350点 标普指数创纪录新高</p>\n<p>美股三大指数连续第四个交易日收涨，道指涨0.98%，标普500指数涨1.38%，纳指涨1.39%，其中标普500指数年内第69次收创历史新高。</p>\n<p>圣诞节和元旦之间的一周企业面消息平静，没有大公司计划公布财报或召开分析师会议。</p>\n<p>除了美国房地产市场的一些报告外，经济数据也将较清淡。</p>\n<p>分析称，由于缺乏流动性，市场波动在节假日期间会被放大。在许多交易者退出场外的情况下，由于交易对象较少，人们愿意买卖的价格可能会更高或更低。</p>\n<p>新能源汽车股集体走高，特斯拉涨2.52%，Rivian大涨10.58%，Lucid涨2.66%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股普遍下跌 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BILI\">哔哩哔哩</a>跌超2%</p>\n<p>热门中概股普遍下跌，哔哩哔哩跌2.88%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IQ\">爱奇艺</a>跌6.52%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DIDI\">滴滴</a>跌5.36%；</p>\n<p>其他中概股方面，微博涨1.08%，雾芯科技涨1.22%。造车新势力齐跌，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌0.04%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌1.71%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>跌1.83%。</p>\n<p>3、欧股主要指数上涨 英国股市圣诞节假期休市</p>\n<p>欧洲时间周一，欧股主要指数上涨，截止收盘，德国DAX30指数涨0.50%；法国CAC40指数涨0.76%。英国股市因圣诞节假期休市。</p>\n<p>4、投资者愿购买被认为有风险的资产 美油收高2.4%</p>\n<p>尽管人们担心奥密克戎变异毒株在美国迅速大规模传播，但投资者似乎愿意购买被认为有风险的资产，使油价依然得到支撑。</p>\n<p>5、黄金期货周一收跌0.2% 守住1800美元关口</p>\n<p>进入2021年的最后一周，黄金期货周一收跌，结束了此前连续三个交易日上涨的行情，但成功守住了重要的心理价位1800美元。</p>\n<p>上周五纽约商品交易所因圣诞节休市。</p>\n<p>在因节假日缩短交易的一周内，黄金期货价格累计上涨0.4%，创11月19日以来的最高收盘价。据FactSet 数据，今年迄今黄金期货下跌了4.6%。</p>\n<p>6、土耳其里拉结束五连涨 埃尔多安的保证看似不管用</p>\n<p>土耳其里拉结束连续五天的上涨行情，虽然当局在一周前出台旨在遏制里拉下跌的措施并信誓旦旦说里拉走势坚挺，但投资者并不买账。</p>\n<p>伊斯坦布尔时间下午6：37，里拉兑美元下跌7.2%至1美元兑11.4665里拉，稍早一度跌至11.5831里拉。今年以来，里拉贬值幅度超过35%，是2021年跌幅最大的新兴市场货币。</p>\n<p>上周五，土耳其总统埃尔多安表示，在采取多项措施支持里拉，包括推出新工具来保护里拉存款持有人后，里拉币值将“逐步”稳定。央行的数据也表明，当局一直在干预外汇市场，里拉上周上涨54%，扭转了前周下跌15%的势头。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登表示没有联邦解决方案 需要在州一级解决新冠激增问题</p>\n<p>美国总统拜登总统承诺帮助那些在omicron变体中苦苦挣扎的州长，但承认各州需要带头控制大流行。</p>\n<p>拜登在与美国一些州长会面之前说，“没有联邦解决方案。这(需要)在州一级得到解决。”</p>\n<p>2、食品价格将全面上涨 美国通胀压力难以消退</p>\n<p>美国许多食品制造商表示，计划在2022年提高从通心粉和奶酪零食等一系列食品的价格，消费者将继续面对物价上涨的情况。</p>\n<p>食品杂货经销商和零售商SpartanNash的首席执行官Tony Sarsam表示，食品价格全部都在上涨，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/000061\">农产品</a>、奶制品以及面包和果汁等食品明年将会变得更加昂贵。</p>\n<p>3、美国因新冠肺炎的儿童住院率迅速增长</p>\n<p>根据美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)和美国卫生与公众服务部(HHS)的数据。</p>\n<p>在截至12月24日的一周内，美国平均每天有262名儿童因新冠肺炎住院接受治疗，住院人数比一周前增加了近35%，比8月底至9月初有342名儿童在医院就诊的峰值平均值仅低23%。</p>\n<p>4、冬季风暴叠加新冠疫情 美国大批航班取消的情况延续到周一</p>\n<p>圣诞节周末打乱美国人出行计划的航班取消问题延续到周一，在航空公司本就因新冠肺炎病例激增而人手不足的情况下，冬季风暴更是令他们雪上加霜。</p>\n<p>5、日本启动首批原油抛储招标 强调密切盯市伺机再出手</p>\n<p>在2021年的最后一周，日本政府终于出手，加入了全球抛售原油储备的队伍。</p>\n<p>根据媒体报道，日本经济产业省发布了一份提供储备阿曼原油的政府招标文件，目前这些原油储存在九州志布志市，预定的交付日期为明年三月至六月。</p>\n<p>政府官员接受媒体采访时表示，这一举措也是日本协同其他原油消费国的抛储计划的一部分，后续将会有更多的动作。</p>\n<p>6、美国纽约市私营企业员工新冠疫苗强制令生效</p>\n<p>美国纽约市对私营企业雇员的新冠疫苗强制令正式生效。从27日起，该市所有私营企业必须要求所有员工提供新冠疫苗接种证明，并准备好文件供市政官员检查。</p>\n<p>在纽约市报告了首例新冠变异病毒奥密克戎毒株感染病例后，纽约市市长比尔·德布拉<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SIAL\">西奥</a>(Bill de Blasio)于12月6日宣布了该疫苗强制令。据悉，该疫苗强制令将影响纽约市总计18.5万家企业，不遵守该规定的企业将面临最低1000美元的罚款。</p>\n<p>7、德国累计确诊超700万、死亡11万 多州收紧防疫措施</p>\n<p>德国疾控机构27日公布的数据显示，该国累计确诊感染新冠病毒病例数已突破七百万，因感染新冠死亡的人数则已于日前突破十一万。当天，德国巴符州、下萨克森州等多州宣布开始实施限制人际接触等较此前更为严厉的防疫措施。</p>\n<p>8、英国援助组织：2021年十大气象灾害造成1700亿损失，最严重为飓风“艾达”</p>\n<p>一家英国援助组织当天发布报告称，气象灾害今年给全球造成巨大损失。具体而言，今年破坏最严重的十大气象灾害共计造成1700多亿美元损失，比去年破坏最严重的10起气象灾害所造成的损失高出200亿美元。</p>\n<p>市场观点</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194078091\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌A年内大涨近七成 其他大型科技股只能“望其项背”</a></p>\n<p>从股价来看，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>(母公司Alphabet即将录得其自2009年以来最好的一年，并即将成为2021年表现最好的大型科技股。</p>\n<p>根据Refinitiv调查，谷歌全年收入预计将攀升39%，达到2540亿美元，势将录得自2007年以来的最大营收增长。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194071541\" target=\"_blank\">困于利润下降及盗窃案激增 美国大型零售连锁店开始闭店</a></p>\n<p>美国几家大型零售商宣布关闭多个城市的门店，理由有很多，从不断变化的消费者态度和未来的健康需求到犯罪率飙升的问题。</p>\n<p>多家零售商开始转向电子商务以提高利润。CVS Health 在 11 月宣布，它计划关闭其近 10000 家门店中的约 9%，并在未来三年内每年进一步关闭 300 家门店。Rite Aid 还表示将关闭 63 家门店，以降低成本并提高利润。 CVS特别指出，大多数客户转向数字偏好促使公司重新考虑其实体存在。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2194297488\" target=\"_blank\">苹果关闭所有纽约零售店 避免线下聚集</a></p>\n<p>苹果现在决定关闭纽约市的所有门店。</p>\n<p>此前，由于新冠肺炎在员工中传播，苹果关闭了亚特兰大、休斯顿和新罕布什尔等地的7家门店。</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b23574aac95526c9e5c62ebc8dd25130","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","BK4532":"文艺复兴科技持仓","BK4553":"喜马拉雅资本持仓","BK4559":"巴菲特持仓","BK4170":"电脑硬件、储存设备及电脑周边","BK4507":"流媒体概念","BK4501":"段永平概念","BK4534":"瑞士信贷持仓","AAPL":"苹果","BK4505":"高瓴资本持仓","BK4527":"明星科技股","BK4515":"5G概念",".DJI":"道琼斯","BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","BK4566":"资本集团","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","BK4554":"元宇宙及AR概念"},"is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1108303862","content_text":"摘要：①美股四连涨，纳指涨1.39%，新能源汽车股集体走强，特斯拉涨2.5%；②投资者愿购买被认为有风险的资产，美油收高2.4%；③食品价格将全面上涨，美国通胀压力难以消退。\n\n海外市场\n1、道指收涨350点 标普指数创纪录新高\n美股三大指数连续第四个交易日收涨，道指涨0.98%，标普500指数涨1.38%，纳指涨1.39%，其中标普500指数年内第69次收创历史新高。\n圣诞节和元旦之间的一周企业面消息平静，没有大公司计划公布财报或召开分析师会议。\n除了美国房地产市场的一些报告外，经济数据也将较清淡。\n分析称，由于缺乏流动性，市场波动在节假日期间会被放大。在许多交易者退出场外的情况下，由于交易对象较少，人们愿意买卖的价格可能会更高或更低。\n新能源汽车股集体走高，特斯拉涨2.52%，Rivian大涨10.58%，Lucid涨2.66%。\n2、热门中概股普遍下跌 哔哩哔哩跌超2%\n热门中概股普遍下跌，哔哩哔哩跌2.88%，爱奇艺跌6.52%，滴滴跌5.36%；\n其他中概股方面，微博涨1.08%，雾芯科技涨1.22%。造车新势力齐跌，小鹏汽车跌0.04%，理想汽车跌1.71%，蔚来跌1.83%。\n3、欧股主要指数上涨 英国股市圣诞节假期休市\n欧洲时间周一，欧股主要指数上涨，截止收盘，德国DAX30指数涨0.50%；法国CAC40指数涨0.76%。英国股市因圣诞节假期休市。\n4、投资者愿购买被认为有风险的资产 美油收高2.4%\n尽管人们担心奥密克戎变异毒株在美国迅速大规模传播，但投资者似乎愿意购买被认为有风险的资产，使油价依然得到支撑。\n5、黄金期货周一收跌0.2% 守住1800美元关口\n进入2021年的最后一周，黄金期货周一收跌，结束了此前连续三个交易日上涨的行情，但成功守住了重要的心理价位1800美元。\n上周五纽约商品交易所因圣诞节休市。\n在因节假日缩短交易的一周内，黄金期货价格累计上涨0.4%，创11月19日以来的最高收盘价。据FactSet 数据，今年迄今黄金期货下跌了4.6%。\n6、土耳其里拉结束五连涨 埃尔多安的保证看似不管用\n土耳其里拉结束连续五天的上涨行情，虽然当局在一周前出台旨在遏制里拉下跌的措施并信誓旦旦说里拉走势坚挺，但投资者并不买账。\n伊斯坦布尔时间下午6：37，里拉兑美元下跌7.2%至1美元兑11.4665里拉，稍早一度跌至11.5831里拉。今年以来，里拉贬值幅度超过35%，是2021年跌幅最大的新兴市场货币。\n上周五，土耳其总统埃尔多安表示，在采取多项措施支持里拉，包括推出新工具来保护里拉存款持有人后，里拉币值将“逐步”稳定。央行的数据也表明，当局一直在干预外汇市场，里拉上周上涨54%，扭转了前周下跌15%的势头。\n国际宏观\n1、拜登表示没有联邦解决方案 需要在州一级解决新冠激增问题\n美国总统拜登总统承诺帮助那些在omicron变体中苦苦挣扎的州长，但承认各州需要带头控制大流行。\n拜登在与美国一些州长会面之前说，“没有联邦解决方案。这(需要)在州一级得到解决。”\n2、食品价格将全面上涨 美国通胀压力难以消退\n美国许多食品制造商表示，计划在2022年提高从通心粉和奶酪零食等一系列食品的价格，消费者将继续面对物价上涨的情况。\n食品杂货经销商和零售商SpartanNash的首席执行官Tony Sarsam表示，食品价格全部都在上涨，农产品、奶制品以及面包和果汁等食品明年将会变得更加昂贵。\n3、美国因新冠肺炎的儿童住院率迅速增长\n根据美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)和美国卫生与公众服务部(HHS)的数据。\n在截至12月24日的一周内，美国平均每天有262名儿童因新冠肺炎住院接受治疗，住院人数比一周前增加了近35%，比8月底至9月初有342名儿童在医院就诊的峰值平均值仅低23%。\n4、冬季风暴叠加新冠疫情 美国大批航班取消的情况延续到周一\n圣诞节周末打乱美国人出行计划的航班取消问题延续到周一，在航空公司本就因新冠肺炎病例激增而人手不足的情况下，冬季风暴更是令他们雪上加霜。\n5、日本启动首批原油抛储招标 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拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手</b></p>\n<p>当地时间周五（11月5日），美国参议院司法委员会反垄断小组主席、民主党参议员Amy Klobuchar的办公室表示，Klobuchar和共和党参议员Tom Cotton提出了一项针对<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>和Facebook等大型科技公司的法案。</p>\n<p>该法案将使政府更容易阻止其认为违反反垄断法的交易，法案要求这些科技公司需要向法官证明其进行的收购交易有利于竞争，因此是合法的。</p>\n<p>“我们看到越来越多的公司选择收购竞争对手，而不是与其竞争。”参议员Klobuchar在一份声明中表示，“这项两党立法将使占主导地位的数字平台更难消除竞争对手，并增强平台的市场影响力，从而终结这些反竞争收购。”</p>\n<p>其他提出的法案试图控制科技公司过大的市场力量，包括像<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>这样的行业领袖。到目前为止，没有一项成为法律，尽管参议院通过了一项将增加反垄断执法人员资源的法律。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/35b363ef27cd5bd0b7c40db27e78638a\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"366\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬</b></p>\n<p>全球最大独立石油交易商Vitol称，沙特阿拉伯调高油价的幅度高于预期，这反映该国很可能将继续抵制美国要求其增产的压力。</p>\n<p>OPEC+上周四（11月4日）决定维持12月减产收缩幅度40万桶不变后，沙特阿美在上周五调高12月付运予亚洲、美国与欧洲客户的官方售价（OSP）差额。</p>\n<p>Vitol亚洲主管Mike Muller表示，虽然调升幅度不是很大，但也高于市场估计，而且亚洲OSP已经升至本世纪第三高，这反映出沙特阿美猜测OPEC+将不会大幅度增产。</p>\n<p>在OPEC+会议后，沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒表示，欧佩克保持了石油市场比天然气和煤炭市场更加平衡。由于供应紧张，欧洲部分地区这两种燃料的价格近几个月飙升至创纪录水平。</p>\n<p>自6月底以来，欧洲的天然气期货价格上涨了一倍多，煤炭价格上涨了25%。相比之下，布伦特原油价格上涨了10%。</p>\n<p>“石油不是问题所在，”阿卜杜勒表示，“问题是能源综合体正在经历浩劫和地狱。”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/699f5e49a5510a2fdedb539cc79d3dc6\" tg-width=\"501\" tg-height=\"297\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">伯克希尔</a>三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备</b></p>\n<p>当地时间周六（11月6日）早晨，伯克希尔哈撒韦披露最新财报，公司表示全球供应链的中断限制了其创收能力，而公平成本的上升则促使该公司进行回购，增加资金储备。</p>\n<p>根据公司披露，Q3总共实现营收705亿美元，去年同期为630亿美元，市场预期742亿美元。实现归属于公司股东的净利润103.44亿美元，同比下降65.68%；截至三季度末，其现金储备达到创纪录的1492亿美元。</p>\n<p>伯克希尔三季度的保险业务亏损大幅扩大。由于伯克希尔旗下的保险公司受到了包括飓风艾达在内的风暴冲击，该业务的承保损失在第三季度扩大到7.84亿美元，较去年同期2.13亿美元的损失大幅扩大，其三大保险集团都报告了承保损失。</p>\n<p>财报显示，第三季度的现金储备达到1492亿美元的新高，超过2020年初创下的纪录高点。尽管在此期间，巴菲特还投入76亿美元回购本公司股票，创出2018年董事会调整回购政策以来纪录第三高水平。</p>\n<p>巴菲特一直面临着伯克希尔钱太多但可供投资的高回报率资产欠缺的问题。由于最近几个季度没有重大交易，这位伯克希尔首席执行官经常将回购作为用掉现金的一种方式。但即便是第三季度的回购水平上升，仍不足以阻止伯克希尔的资金量膨胀。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/251e4aa32dcaa97605494ba2d2f280e5\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"352\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CS\">瑞士信贷</a>将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理</b></p>\n<p>瑞士信贷集团上周四宣布，将退出主经纪商业务，并将重心从投行转向财富管理。Archegos爆仓事件后，瑞士信贷新任董事长希望降低公司的风险敞口。</p>\n<p>António Horta-Osório是瑞信的新任董事长，他周四（11月4日）公布第三季度强劲业绩的同时还披露了他的战略。他告诉分析师，“没有速效的解决办法，还有很多工作要做”。Horta-Osório称将限制其投资银行家，并将资金投入财富管理领域。瑞信正努力遏制放任自流的文化，这种文化已使其在一系列丑闻中损失了数十亿美元。</p>\n<p>Horta-Osório计划对瑞士信贷集团实施改革，Horta-Osório将调整一些资本配置和报告关系，但他的主要目标是强化瑞信的风险文化，同时保持其创业精神。</p>\n<p>Horta-Osório对瑞士报纸表示，瑞信的大股东支持其新策略，并表示瑞信还将改革高管薪酬体系，以降低风险。</p>\n<p>根据Refinitiv的数据，瑞信最大的股东Harris Associates持有4.9%的股份。Harris Associates也在周日发表的另一篇采访中支持这一策略。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37fdff570a6105619fb0c13aaa52beb3\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"303\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资</b></p>\n<p>美国部分大型科技股估计在业绩公布后不断上升，相关龙头的股价在今年升幅相当厉害，有分析师建议投资者考虑多元化，转持其它落后大市的公司。</p>\n<p>一些投资者担心，科技龙头的估值处于极高水平。以<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet为例，其股价相当于26.6倍预期市盈率，远高于标普500指数的21.1倍；<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>股价相当于26.2倍预期市盈率。信息技术板块相当于26.4倍预期市盈率。</p>\n<p>Natixis Investment Managers Solutions的投资组合策略师Garret Melson认为，大型科技股公司短期将有调整压力，因为基金经理获利回吐的诱因高，而且可能把资金转至其他更具上升潜力的行业。Melson认为金融和能源等能从经济增长中受益的行业，年底前可能会挑战大型科技股。</p>\n<p>同样看好能源与分析行业的还有DataTrek，该行分析师认为这两个行业截止年底的回报将可与科技股看齐。“科技股很可能保持稳健增长，但在投资者可考虑组合多元化，寻找对经济基本面改善有更多敞口的行业。”</p>\n<p>Janus Henderson投资组合经理兼科技板块主管Denny Fish表示，科技股偏高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QCOM\">高通</a>胀并不利于该类公司，因此已经调整组合，转持那些将从巨头成长中获益的小型公司。Fish看好澳大利亚软件开发公司Atlassian $PLC(<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a>)$的股票，该公司的产品管理工具“增强”了<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>的应用程序套件，以及加拿大电子商务公司<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SHOP\">Shopify Inc</a>的股票，该公司受益于<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">亚马逊</a>的增长。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/567d6fd3c74d4342c28ae73668e117ab\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"328\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？</b></p>\n<p>上周五，美国众议院以228票对206票获得通过了一项超过1万亿美元的跨党派基础设施法案，接下来法案将提交给拜登签署，成为民主党政府自春季批准1.9万亿美元的救助计划以来最重要立法成就。</p>\n<p>本周，在数据方面，通胀将成为焦点。周三，美国劳工统计局将公布美国10月份消费者价格指数（CPI），预计CPI数据会再次加速增长，结束持续的温和增长，并加剧人们对高通胀持续时间将超过预期的担忧。</p>\n<p>华尔街经济学家预测，CPI预计将较去年同期上涨5.8%。这比9月份的5.4%有所改善，是自1990年以来的最高水平。</p>\n<p>彭博一致预测显示，物价环比上涨0.6%。在8月和9月之间，上涨了0.4%。</p>\n<p>如果不包括食品和能源等波动较大的大宗商品，预计10月份的价格涨幅将较为温和，但仍将保持高位。核心CPI预计将从9月份的4%上升至4.3%。预计比前一个月增长0.4%，是前一个月的两倍。</p>","source":"sina","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>外媒头条：伯克希尔业绩大降！巴菲特持有现金再创新高</title>\n<style 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分析师建议分散投资\n\n\n6、美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-11-08/doc-iktzscyy4241168.shtml\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ee8356647b06585ac937a0f45e6aeb17","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B",".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-11-08/doc-iktzscyy4241168.shtml","is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/b0d1b7e8843deea78cc308b15114de44","article_id":"2181723511","content_text":"全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：\n\n1、美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手\n\n\n2、沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬\n\n\n3、伯克希尔三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备\n\n\n4、瑞士信贷将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理\n\n\n5、大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资\n\n\n6、美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？\n\n\n美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手\n当地时间周五（11月5日），美国参议院司法委员会反垄断小组主席、民主党参议员Amy Klobuchar的办公室表示，Klobuchar和共和党参议员Tom Cotton提出了一项针对谷歌和Facebook等大型科技公司的法案。\n该法案将使政府更容易阻止其认为违反反垄断法的交易，法案要求这些科技公司需要向法官证明其进行的收购交易有利于竞争，因此是合法的。\n“我们看到越来越多的公司选择收购竞争对手，而不是与其竞争。”参议员Klobuchar在一份声明中表示，“这项两党立法将使占主导地位的数字平台更难消除竞争对手，并增强平台的市场影响力，从而终结这些反竞争收购。”\n其他提出的法案试图控制科技公司过大的市场力量，包括像苹果这样的行业领袖。到目前为止，没有一项成为法律，尽管参议院通过了一项将增加反垄断执法人员资源的法律。\n\n沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬\n全球最大独立石油交易商Vitol称，沙特阿拉伯调高油价的幅度高于预期，这反映该国很可能将继续抵制美国要求其增产的压力。\nOPEC+上周四（11月4日）决定维持12月减产收缩幅度40万桶不变后，沙特阿美在上周五调高12月付运予亚洲、美国与欧洲客户的官方售价（OSP）差额。\nVitol亚洲主管Mike Muller表示，虽然调升幅度不是很大，但也高于市场估计，而且亚洲OSP已经升至本世纪第三高，这反映出沙特阿美猜测OPEC+将不会大幅度增产。\n在OPEC+会议后，沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒表示，欧佩克保持了石油市场比天然气和煤炭市场更加平衡。由于供应紧张，欧洲部分地区这两种燃料的价格近几个月飙升至创纪录水平。\n自6月底以来，欧洲的天然气期货价格上涨了一倍多，煤炭价格上涨了25%。相比之下，布伦特原油价格上涨了10%。\n“石油不是问题所在，”阿卜杜勒表示，“问题是能源综合体正在经历浩劫和地狱。”\n\n伯克希尔三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备\n当地时间周六（11月6日）早晨，伯克希尔哈撒韦披露最新财报，公司表示全球供应链的中断限制了其创收能力，而公平成本的上升则促使该公司进行回购，增加资金储备。\n根据公司披露，Q3总共实现营收705亿美元，去年同期为630亿美元，市场预期742亿美元。实现归属于公司股东的净利润103.44亿美元，同比下降65.68%；截至三季度末，其现金储备达到创纪录的1492亿美元。\n伯克希尔三季度的保险业务亏损大幅扩大。由于伯克希尔旗下的保险公司受到了包括飓风艾达在内的风暴冲击，该业务的承保损失在第三季度扩大到7.84亿美元，较去年同期2.13亿美元的损失大幅扩大，其三大保险集团都报告了承保损失。\n财报显示，第三季度的现金储备达到1492亿美元的新高，超过2020年初创下的纪录高点。尽管在此期间，巴菲特还投入76亿美元回购本公司股票，创出2018年董事会调整回购政策以来纪录第三高水平。\n巴菲特一直面临着伯克希尔钱太多但可供投资的高回报率资产欠缺的问题。由于最近几个季度没有重大交易，这位伯克希尔首席执行官经常将回购作为用掉现金的一种方式。但即便是第三季度的回购水平上升，仍不足以阻止伯克希尔的资金量膨胀。\n\n瑞士信贷将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理\n瑞士信贷集团上周四宣布，将退出主经纪商业务，并将重心从投行转向财富管理。Archegos爆仓事件后，瑞士信贷新任董事长希望降低公司的风险敞口。\nAntónio Horta-Osório是瑞信的新任董事长，他周四（11月4日）公布第三季度强劲业绩的同时还披露了他的战略。他告诉分析师，“没有速效的解决办法，还有很多工作要做”。Horta-Osório称将限制其投资银行家，并将资金投入财富管理领域。瑞信正努力遏制放任自流的文化，这种文化已使其在一系列丑闻中损失了数十亿美元。\nHorta-Osório计划对瑞士信贷集团实施改革，Horta-Osório将调整一些资本配置和报告关系，但他的主要目标是强化瑞信的风险文化，同时保持其创业精神。\nHorta-Osório对瑞士报纸表示，瑞信的大股东支持其新策略，并表示瑞信还将改革高管薪酬体系，以降低风险。\n根据Refinitiv的数据，瑞信最大的股东Harris Associates持有4.9%的股份。Harris Associates也在周日发表的另一篇采访中支持这一策略。\n\n大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资\n美国部分大型科技股估计在业绩公布后不断上升，相关龙头的股价在今年升幅相当厉害，有分析师建议投资者考虑多元化，转持其它落后大市的公司。\n一些投资者担心，科技龙头的估值处于极高水平。以谷歌母公司Alphabet为例，其股价相当于26.6倍预期市盈率，远高于标普500指数的21.1倍；苹果股价相当于26.2倍预期市盈率。信息技术板块相当于26.4倍预期市盈率。\nNatixis Investment Managers Solutions的投资组合策略师Garret Melson认为，大型科技股公司短期将有调整压力，因为基金经理获利回吐的诱因高，而且可能把资金转至其他更具上升潜力的行业。Melson认为金融和能源等能从经济增长中受益的行业，年底前可能会挑战大型科技股。\n同样看好能源与分析行业的还有DataTrek，该行分析师认为这两个行业截止年底的回报将可与科技股看齐。“科技股很可能保持稳健增长，但在投资者可考虑组合多元化，寻找对经济基本面改善有更多敞口的行业。”\nJanus Henderson投资组合经理兼科技板块主管Denny Fish表示，科技股偏高，高通胀并不利于该类公司，因此已经调整组合，转持那些将从巨头成长中获益的小型公司。Fish看好澳大利亚软件开发公司Atlassian $PLC(PLC)$的股票，该公司的产品管理工具“增强”了微软的应用程序套件，以及加拿大电子商务公司Shopify Inc的股票，该公司受益于亚马逊的增长。\n\n美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？\n上周五，美国众议院以228票对206票获得通过了一项超过1万亿美元的跨党派基础设施法案，接下来法案将提交给拜登签署，成为民主党政府自春季批准1.9万亿美元的救助计划以来最重要立法成就。\n本周，在数据方面，通胀将成为焦点。周三，美国劳工统计局将公布美国10月份消费者价格指数（CPI），预计CPI数据会再次加速增长，结束持续的温和增长，并加剧人们对高通胀持续时间将超过预期的担忧。\n华尔街经济学家预测，CPI预计将较去年同期上涨5.8%。这比9月份的5.4%有所改善，是自1990年以来的最高水平。\n彭博一致预测显示，物价环比上涨0.6%。在8月和9月之间，上涨了0.4%。\n如果不包括食品和能源等波动较大的大宗商品，预计10月份的价格涨幅将较为温和，但仍将保持高位。核心CPI预计将从9月份的4%上升至4.3%。预计比前一个月增长0.4%，是前一个月的两倍。","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":450,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":848806646,"gmtCreate":1635986934067,"gmtModify":1635986934152,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/848806646","repostId":"2180676329","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2180676329","pubTimestamp":1635975540,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2180676329?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-04 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本月晚些时候启动减码购债</b></p>\n<p>美联储当地时间周三宣布维持基准利率不变，并将很快开始放缓每月债券购买的步伐。</p>\n<p>美联储声明表示，将于11月晚些时候启动缩减购债计划，将每月资产购买规模减少150亿美元；每月国债和抵押贷款支持证券（MBS）购买量分别调整至700亿和350亿美元，此前分别为800亿和400亿美元。此外，12月的国债和MBS购买量分别调整至600亿和300亿美元。</p>\n<p>FOMC表示，此举是“鉴于自去年12月以来经济朝着委员会目标取得的进一步实质性进展”。</p>\n<p>声明强调，美联储并未预设路线，必要时将对该流程进行调整。</p>\n<p>“委员会认为，每个月类似规模地降低净资产购买速度可能是合适的，但如果经济前景发生变化，将准备调整购买速度，”该委员会表示。</p>\n<p>随着缩减购债规模，美联储也略微改变了对通胀的看法，承认物价上涨比官员预测的更快、更持久。声明还强调，投资者不应将减码购债视为加息迫在眉睫的信号。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2a4296ef7490baf47bf9f8734f1cec72\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"309\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>“新兴市场教父”麦朴思：加密货币不是投资 股票是最佳选择</b></p>\n<p>有“新兴市场教父”之称的传奇投资者麦朴思（Mark Mobius）周三称加密货币为一种宗教而非投资。在比特币和以太币的交易价格接近历史高位之际，他加入了数字货币怀疑论者的行列。</p>\n<p>“这不是投资，而是一种宗教，”麦朴思说。</p>\n<p>“人们不应该将这些加密货币视为一种投资手段。这是一种投机和娱乐的方式。之后你必须最终回到股票市场，”他补充道。</p>\n<p>麦朴思并不是唯一一个抨击加密货币的人。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JPM\">摩根大通</a>首席执行官杰米-戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）也曾公开批评比特币，最近称其“一文不值”和“傻瓜的黄金”。</p>\n<p>麦朴思认为，由于货币和通胀因素，股票是最好的选择。</p>\n<p>“股票肯定是答案，因为货币贬值不会消失，这意味着未来通胀将继续以高位运行，”他说。“别忘了美国的货币供应量增长了30%以上。”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8011fcea180314cc63811074f3b5a86b\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"364\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美国新冠疫情两个月来改善势头遇阻 今冬或遭遇新一轮回升</b></p>\n<p>美国过去两个月的新冠疫情改善可能即将结束，而疫情正成为季节性的潮起潮落。</p>\n<p>这并不是说形势马上就要开始恶化，而是已经停止改善趋势，就像之前几轮一样。与2020年夏季新增病例激增类似，2021年的德尔塔变种浪潮在9月初达到顶峰，随后新增病例、住院和死亡人数出现持续两个月的下降。</p>\n<p>现在，这种改善已经失去了60天来的积极势头，显示出对过去模式的重演。</p>\n<p>许多公共卫生专家现在认为，美国在可预见的未来都将与Covid-19疫情共存，而最新数据并不一定意味着美国正在进入一个独特的危险新阶段。</p>\n<p>一些州--特别是东北部的州--希望非常强的疫苗接种率能够阻止这种病毒。但是，免疫力随着时间推移将如何减弱的问题仍然没有答案。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/51a72ca52c715fb00b8c5ff0563a3bed\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"395\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美国10月服务业指数升至创纪录高位 但供应链问题仍然严峻</b></p>\n<p>美国10月服务提供商扩张速度达到创纪录水平，受需求坚挺和商业活动增强提振。</p>\n<p>周三发布的数据显示，供应管理学会（ISM）服务业指数从9月的61.9升至66.7，超过所有经济学家预期。</p>\n<p>新订单和商业活动指标也升至1997年有数据统计以来的最高水平，表明随着新冠疫情的缓解，经济在第四季度初进一步积蓄动能。</p>\n<p>持续的家庭和企业需求也表明推高通胀的供应链问题仍然未有缓和，积压订单指标升至历史新高。</p>\n<p>“需求没有放缓迹象，” ISM服务业调查委员会主席Anthony Nieves发布声明称。“然而，持续的挑战（包括供应链中断和劳动力和材料短缺）正在限制产能并影响整体业务状况。”</p>\n<p>衡量服务提供商对材料和服务支付价格的指标升至2005年9月以来最高水平。供应商交货时间指标攀升至历史次高，表明交货时间延长且产能限制持续。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7f3f142c4cf787546aefddb6fbc8d536\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"361\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>就业数据还没看到就得做出利率决定 英国央行驶入决策盲区</b></p>\n<p>连英国央行自己都承认，他们正驶入本周利率决策会议的盲区。</p>\n<p>虽然通胀加快攀升，超过了英国央行2%的目标水平，但能显示休假计划结束对就业市场影响的关键数据要到11月16日才会公布。这比本周四中午英国央行将于伦敦发布的利率声明要晚12天。</p>\n<p>在就利率做出决定之前，英国央行的官员们不会有机会看到英国国家统计局定于周四早间公布的一项调查。该项调查将显示，在休假计划结束之时，估计人数在100万的工人的休假状况。政府有关该计划最后一个月情况的数据也定于周四发布，也来得太晚。</p>\n<p>然而，货币政策委员会9月曾表示，关系其利率决定的一个关键问题是“经济将如何适应休假计划的结束、失业率变化的影响、就业和劳动力匹配困难的持续性。”</p>\n<p>就业市场情况不明是导致经济学家在本周是否会加息的问题上出现分歧的原因之一。持续的劳动力供应短缺将对工资构成上行压力，在这一点上，英国央行将很难将其视为“暂时的”现象。</p>\n<p>市场正在押注加息15个基点，以应对可能达到5%的通胀率。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5053415982afaf36cf9d6fb9415a68f1\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"398\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>盖茨：将全球变暖幅度控制在1.5℃以内恐难实现</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>创始人比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）今日表示，能否将全球变暖幅度控制在1.5℃以内，这是是值得怀疑的。这表明，要实现全球气候目标，还有许多工作要做。</p>\n<p>盖茨是在《联合国气候变化框架公约》第二十六次缔约方大会（COP26）上接受采访时发表上述言论的。在2015年签署的《巴黎协定》中，各国领导人表示，他们“致力于实现将全球平均气温上升幅度控制在低于工业化水平前2摄氏度的水平，并努力将其控制在1.5℃的水平”。</p>\n<p>盖茨说：“可以说，这一切都是关于‘温度’的问题。控制在2.5℃以内，肯定比3℃以内要好；控制在2℃以内，要比2.5℃要好，以此类推。但是，这将是非常困难的，我怀疑我们能否做到这一点。”</p>\n<p>1.5℃的门槛，是一个关键的全球目标，因为超过这一水平，所谓的“临界点”就更有可能出现。就气候系统来说， 临界点指的是全球或区域气候从一种稳定状态到另外一种稳定状态的关键门槛。临界点是不可逆的，一旦触发临界点，系统可能会很快变坏。</p>\n<p>虽然如此，盖茨也同时指出：“人类在应对气候变化方面所取得的成就是前所未有的。”</p>","source":"sina","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>外媒头条：靴子落地！美联储官宣11月启动减码购债</title>\n<style 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Index"},"source_url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-11-04/doc-iktzscyy3510508.shtml","is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/b0d1b7e8843deea78cc308b15114de44","article_id":"2180676329","content_text":"全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：\n\n1、美联储维持基准利率不变 本月晚些时候启动减码购债\n\n\n2、“新兴市场教父”麦朴思：加密货币不是投资 股票是最佳选择\n\n\n3、美国新冠疫情两个月来改善势头遇阻 今冬或遭遇新一轮回升\n\n\n4、美国10月服务业指数升至创纪录高位 但供应链问题仍然严峻\n\n\n5、就业数据还没看到就得做出利率决定 英国央行驶入决策盲区\n\n\n6、盖茨：将全球变暖幅度控制在1.5℃以内恐难实现\n\n\n美联储维持基准利率不变 本月晚些时候启动减码购债\n美联储当地时间周三宣布维持基准利率不变，并将很快开始放缓每月债券购买的步伐。\n美联储声明表示，将于11月晚些时候启动缩减购债计划，将每月资产购买规模减少150亿美元；每月国债和抵押贷款支持证券（MBS）购买量分别调整至700亿和350亿美元，此前分别为800亿和400亿美元。此外，12月的国债和MBS购买量分别调整至600亿和300亿美元。\nFOMC表示，此举是“鉴于自去年12月以来经济朝着委员会目标取得的进一步实质性进展”。\n声明强调，美联储并未预设路线，必要时将对该流程进行调整。\n“委员会认为，每个月类似规模地降低净资产购买速度可能是合适的，但如果经济前景发生变化，将准备调整购买速度，”该委员会表示。\n随着缩减购债规模，美联储也略微改变了对通胀的看法，承认物价上涨比官员预测的更快、更持久。声明还强调，投资者不应将减码购债视为加息迫在眉睫的信号。\n\n“新兴市场教父”麦朴思：加密货币不是投资 股票是最佳选择\n有“新兴市场教父”之称的传奇投资者麦朴思（Mark Mobius）周三称加密货币为一种宗教而非投资。在比特币和以太币的交易价格接近历史高位之际，他加入了数字货币怀疑论者的行列。\n“这不是投资，而是一种宗教，”麦朴思说。\n“人们不应该将这些加密货币视为一种投资手段。这是一种投机和娱乐的方式。之后你必须最终回到股票市场，”他补充道。\n麦朴思并不是唯一一个抨击加密货币的人。摩根大通首席执行官杰米-戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）也曾公开批评比特币，最近称其“一文不值”和“傻瓜的黄金”。\n麦朴思认为，由于货币和通胀因素，股票是最好的选择。\n“股票肯定是答案，因为货币贬值不会消失，这意味着未来通胀将继续以高位运行，”他说。“别忘了美国的货币供应量增长了30%以上。”\n\n美国新冠疫情两个月来改善势头遇阻 今冬或遭遇新一轮回升\n美国过去两个月的新冠疫情改善可能即将结束，而疫情正成为季节性的潮起潮落。\n这并不是说形势马上就要开始恶化，而是已经停止改善趋势，就像之前几轮一样。与2020年夏季新增病例激增类似，2021年的德尔塔变种浪潮在9月初达到顶峰，随后新增病例、住院和死亡人数出现持续两个月的下降。\n现在，这种改善已经失去了60天来的积极势头，显示出对过去模式的重演。\n许多公共卫生专家现在认为，美国在可预见的未来都将与Covid-19疫情共存，而最新数据并不一定意味着美国正在进入一个独特的危险新阶段。\n一些州--特别是东北部的州--希望非常强的疫苗接种率能够阻止这种病毒。但是，免疫力随着时间推移将如何减弱的问题仍然没有答案。\n\n美国10月服务业指数升至创纪录高位 但供应链问题仍然严峻\n美国10月服务提供商扩张速度达到创纪录水平，受需求坚挺和商业活动增强提振。\n周三发布的数据显示，供应管理学会（ISM）服务业指数从9月的61.9升至66.7，超过所有经济学家预期。\n新订单和商业活动指标也升至1997年有数据统计以来的最高水平，表明随着新冠疫情的缓解，经济在第四季度初进一步积蓄动能。\n持续的家庭和企业需求也表明推高通胀的供应链问题仍然未有缓和，积压订单指标升至历史新高。\n“需求没有放缓迹象，” ISM服务业调查委员会主席Anthony Nieves发布声明称。“然而，持续的挑战（包括供应链中断和劳动力和材料短缺）正在限制产能并影响整体业务状况。”\n衡量服务提供商对材料和服务支付价格的指标升至2005年9月以来最高水平。供应商交货时间指标攀升至历史次高，表明交货时间延长且产能限制持续。\n\n就业数据还没看到就得做出利率决定 英国央行驶入决策盲区\n连英国央行自己都承认，他们正驶入本周利率决策会议的盲区。\n虽然通胀加快攀升，超过了英国央行2%的目标水平，但能显示休假计划结束对就业市场影响的关键数据要到11月16日才会公布。这比本周四中午英国央行将于伦敦发布的利率声明要晚12天。\n在就利率做出决定之前，英国央行的官员们不会有机会看到英国国家统计局定于周四早间公布的一项调查。该项调查将显示，在休假计划结束之时，估计人数在100万的工人的休假状况。政府有关该计划最后一个月情况的数据也定于周四发布，也来得太晚。\n然而，货币政策委员会9月曾表示，关系其利率决定的一个关键问题是“经济将如何适应休假计划的结束、失业率变化的影响、就业和劳动力匹配困难的持续性。”\n就业市场情况不明是导致经济学家在本周是否会加息的问题上出现分歧的原因之一。持续的劳动力供应短缺将对工资构成上行压力，在这一点上，英国央行将很难将其视为“暂时的”现象。\n市场正在押注加息15个基点，以应对可能达到5%的通胀率。\n\n盖茨：将全球变暖幅度控制在1.5℃以内恐难实现\n微软创始人比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）今日表示，能否将全球变暖幅度控制在1.5℃以内，这是是值得怀疑的。这表明，要实现全球气候目标，还有许多工作要做。\n盖茨是在《联合国气候变化框架公约》第二十六次缔约方大会（COP26）上接受采访时发表上述言论的。在2015年签署的《巴黎协定》中，各国领导人表示，他们“致力于实现将全球平均气温上升幅度控制在低于工业化水平前2摄氏度的水平，并努力将其控制在1.5℃的水平”。\n盖茨说：“可以说，这一切都是关于‘温度’的问题。控制在2.5℃以内，肯定比3℃以内要好；控制在2℃以内，要比2.5℃要好，以此类推。但是，这将是非常困难的，我怀疑我们能否做到这一点。”\n1.5℃的门槛，是一个关键的全球目标，因为超过这一水平，所谓的“临界点”就更有可能出现。就气候系统来说， 临界点指的是全球或区域气候从一种稳定状态到另外一种稳定状态的关键门槛。临界点是不可逆的，一旦触发临界点，系统可能会很快变坏。\n虽然如此，盖茨也同时指出：“人类在应对气候变化方面所取得的成就是前所未有的。”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":470,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":841045265,"gmtCreate":1635865328678,"gmtModify":1635865328678,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/841045265","repostId":"2180872447","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2180872447","pubTimestamp":1635863109,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2180872447?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-02 22:25","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is Apple Stock a Buy?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2180872447","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"The tech giant can't keep up with the market's demand for its products.","content":"<p><b>Apple</b>'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock price recently dipped after the tech giant posted a mixed fourth-quarter report on Oct. 28. Its revenue rose 29% year over year to $83.4 billion, which missed analysts' estimates by $1.6 billion. Its earnings rose 70% to $1.24 per share and matched analysts' expectations.</p>\n<p>Apple attributed its slower-than-expected growth to supply chain constraints, which reduced its fourth-quarter sales by $6 billion. It expects those constraints to have an even bigger impact on its first-quarter sales.</p>\n<p>Those challenges largely overshadowed CFO Luca Maestri's claim that Apple was still experiencing \"better-than-expected demand\" for its products during the company's conference call. Should investors avoid Apple after that messy quarter, or consider its latest pullback a buying opportunity?</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F649668%2Fapple_iphone13_design_09142021.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"393\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Apple.</span></p>\n<h2>Apple's core businesses are still growing</h2>\n<p>Apple's iPhone, Mac, and iPad businesses all faced supply chain bottlenecks during the quarter, but all three segments still grew year over year:</p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"589\">\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <th width=\"193\"><p>Segment</p></th>\n   <th width=\"205\"><p>Q4 2021 Revenue</p></th>\n   <th width=\"147\"><p>Growth (YOY)</p></th>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>iPhone</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$38.87 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>47%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Mac</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$9.18 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>2%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>iPad</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$8.25 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>21%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Wearables, Home, and Accessories</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$8.79 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>12%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Services</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$18.28 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>26%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Total</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$83.36 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>29%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Source: Apple. YOY = Year over year.</p>\n<p>The wearables, home, and accessories business grew as it sold more Apple Watches and AirPods. Its closely watched services business also expanded as its cloud, video, and music businesses gained more subscribers; its App Store generated \"record\" revenue (despite facing ongoing pressure to lower its fees); and Apple Pay and Apple Care gained more users.</p>\n<p>Apple ended the year with 745 million paid subscribers across all of its services, up nearly five times from five years earlier, while its annual services revenue nearly tripled over the past six years. That ongoing expansion should widen Apple's moat, increase the stickiness of its digital ecosystem, and reinforce the brand loyalty that supports its pricing power in the hardware market.</p>\n<p>That's why Apple's gross and operating margins expanded significantly in both the fourth quarter and the full year, even as the broader smartphone, tablet, and PC markets were commoditized by cheaper devices:</p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"604\">\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <th width=\"147\"><p>Period</p></th>\n   <th width=\"89\"><p>Q4 2020</p></th>\n   <th width=\"94\"><p>Q4 2021</p></th>\n   <th width=\"101\"><p>FY 2020</p></th>\n   <th width=\"101\"><p>FY 2021</p></th>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"147\"><p><b>Gross Margin</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"89\"><p>38.2%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"94\"><p>42.2%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"101\"><p>38.2%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"101\"><p>41.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"147\"><p><b>Operating Margin</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"89\"><p>22.8%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"94\"><p>28.5%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"101\"><p>24.1%</p></td>\n   <td width=\"101\"><p>29.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Source: Apple.</p>\n<p>Apple's expanding operating margins indicate it still has plenty of bargaining power with its suppliers. It also doesn't need to rely too heavily on pricey marketing campaigns to generate stable sales growth.</p>\n<p>Apple also continued to generate double-digit revenue growth across all five of its main geographic regions during the fourth quarter:</p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"589\">\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <th width=\"193\"><p>Region</p></th>\n   <th width=\"205\"><p>Q4 2021 Revenue</p></th>\n   <th width=\"147\"><p>Growth (YOY)</p></th>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Americas</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$36.82 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>20%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Europe</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$20.79 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>23%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Greater China</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$14.56 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>83%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Japan</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$5.99 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>19%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr valign=\"TOP\">\n   <td width=\"193\"><p><b>Rest of Asia Pacific</b></p></td>\n   <td width=\"205\"><p>$5.19 billion</p></td>\n   <td width=\"147\"><p>26%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Source: Apple. YOY = Year over year.</p>\n<p>Apple's massive growth in the Greater China region, which marked an acceleration from its 58% growth in the third quarter, should silence the bearish claims that it will lose the market to Chinese competitors like <b>Xiaomi</b>, <b>Oppo</b>, <b>Vivo</b>, and <b>Huawei</b>.</p>\n<p>In fact, Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market actually expanded from 8% to 13% between the third quarters of 2020 and 2021, according to Counterpoint Research, even as the critics fretted over potential boycotts related to the trade war, the tech war, and other geopolitical tensions.</p>\n<h2>Returning plenty of cash to investors</h2>\n<p>Apple's near-term revenue growth might be curbed by chip shortages and other supply chain challenges, but it continues to return a large portion of its free cash flow to shareholders with big buybacks and dividends.</p>\n<p>During the fourth quarter, Apple bought back $20 billion in shares and paid out $3.6 billion in dividends. For the full year, it bought back $86 billion in shares and reduced its number of outstanding shares by nearly 4%.</p>\n<p>Apple ended the year with $191 billion in cash and marketable securities, which gives it plenty of room for future investments or acquisitions. Its forward dividend yield of 0.6% might seem paltry compared to those of other higher-yielding tech dividend stocks, but that lower yield also gives it more freedom for big buybacks and smart investments.</p>\n<h2>Robust growth at a reasonable valuation</h2>\n<p>For the full year, Apple's revenue and earnings per share (EPS) increased 33% and 71%, respectively.</p>\n<p>But next year, analysts expect its revenue and earnings to only rise 4% and 2%, respectively, as the iPhone faces tougher year-over-year comparisons. That slowdown might seem disappointing, but Apple has always been a cyclical company that relies heavily on hardware upgrade cycles.</p>\n<p>I believe Apple's growth cycles will continue as it expands its services ecosystem and enters new markets like augmented reality devices and connected cars, so its stock still looks reasonably valued at 27 times forward earnings. If you agree with that view, then it's smarter to buy Apple's stock after its latest post-earnings dip than to sell it simply because it faces some near-term supply chain challenges.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is Apple Stock a Buy?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIs Apple Stock a Buy?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-11-02 22:25 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/11/02/is-apple-stock-a-buy/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock price recently dipped after the tech giant posted a mixed fourth-quarter report on Oct. 28. Its revenue rose 29% year over year to $83.4 billion, which missed analysts' ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/11/02/is-apple-stock-a-buy/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/11/02/is-apple-stock-a-buy/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2180872447","content_text":"Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock price recently dipped after the tech giant posted a mixed fourth-quarter report on Oct. 28. Its revenue rose 29% year over year to $83.4 billion, which missed analysts' estimates by $1.6 billion. Its earnings rose 70% to $1.24 per share and matched analysts' expectations.\nApple attributed its slower-than-expected growth to supply chain constraints, which reduced its fourth-quarter sales by $6 billion. It expects those constraints to have an even bigger impact on its first-quarter sales.\nThose challenges largely overshadowed CFO Luca Maestri's claim that Apple was still experiencing \"better-than-expected demand\" for its products during the company's conference call. Should investors avoid Apple after that messy quarter, or consider its latest pullback a buying opportunity?\nImage source: Apple.\nApple's core businesses are still growing\nApple's iPhone, Mac, and iPad businesses all faced supply chain bottlenecks during the quarter, but all three segments still grew year over year:\n\n\n\n\nSegment\nQ4 2021 Revenue\nGrowth (YOY)\n\n\niPhone\n$38.87 billion\n47%\n\n\nMac\n$9.18 billion\n2%\n\n\niPad\n$8.25 billion\n21%\n\n\nWearables, Home, and Accessories\n$8.79 billion\n12%\n\n\nServices\n$18.28 billion\n26%\n\n\nTotal\n$83.36 billion\n29%\n\n\n\nSource: Apple. YOY = Year over year.\nThe wearables, home, and accessories business grew as it sold more Apple Watches and AirPods. Its closely watched services business also expanded as its cloud, video, and music businesses gained more subscribers; its App Store generated \"record\" revenue (despite facing ongoing pressure to lower its fees); and Apple Pay and Apple Care gained more users.\nApple ended the year with 745 million paid subscribers across all of its services, up nearly five times from five years earlier, while its annual services revenue nearly tripled over the past six years. That ongoing expansion should widen Apple's moat, increase the stickiness of its digital ecosystem, and reinforce the brand loyalty that supports its pricing power in the hardware market.\nThat's why Apple's gross and operating margins expanded significantly in both the fourth quarter and the full year, even as the broader smartphone, tablet, and PC markets were commoditized by cheaper devices:\n\n\n\n\nPeriod\nQ4 2020\nQ4 2021\nFY 2020\nFY 2021\n\n\nGross Margin\n38.2%\n42.2%\n38.2%\n41.8%\n\n\nOperating Margin\n22.8%\n28.5%\n24.1%\n29.8%\n\n\n\nSource: Apple.\nApple's expanding operating margins indicate it still has plenty of bargaining power with its suppliers. It also doesn't need to rely too heavily on pricey marketing campaigns to generate stable sales growth.\nApple also continued to generate double-digit revenue growth across all five of its main geographic regions during the fourth quarter:\n\n\n\n\nRegion\nQ4 2021 Revenue\nGrowth (YOY)\n\n\nAmericas\n$36.82 billion\n20%\n\n\nEurope\n$20.79 billion\n23%\n\n\nGreater China\n$14.56 billion\n83%\n\n\nJapan\n$5.99 billion\n19%\n\n\nRest of Asia Pacific\n$5.19 billion\n26%\n\n\n\nSource: Apple. YOY = Year over year.\nApple's massive growth in the Greater China region, which marked an acceleration from its 58% growth in the third quarter, should silence the bearish claims that it will lose the market to Chinese competitors like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei.\nIn fact, Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market actually expanded from 8% to 13% between the third quarters of 2020 and 2021, according to Counterpoint Research, even as the critics fretted over potential boycotts related to the trade war, the tech war, and other geopolitical tensions.\nReturning plenty of cash to investors\nApple's near-term revenue growth might be curbed by chip shortages and other supply chain challenges, but it continues to return a large portion of its free cash flow to shareholders with big buybacks and dividends.\nDuring the fourth quarter, Apple bought back $20 billion in shares and paid out $3.6 billion in dividends. For the full year, it bought back $86 billion in shares and reduced its number of outstanding shares by nearly 4%.\nApple ended the year with $191 billion in cash and marketable securities, which gives it plenty of room for future investments or acquisitions. Its forward dividend yield of 0.6% might seem paltry compared to those of other higher-yielding tech dividend stocks, but that lower yield also gives it more freedom for big buybacks and smart investments.\nRobust growth at a reasonable valuation\nFor the full year, Apple's revenue and earnings per share (EPS) increased 33% and 71%, respectively.\nBut next year, analysts expect its revenue and earnings to only rise 4% and 2%, respectively, as the iPhone faces tougher year-over-year comparisons. That slowdown might seem disappointing, but Apple has always been a cyclical company that relies heavily on hardware upgrade cycles.\nI believe Apple's growth cycles will continue as it expands its services ecosystem and enters new markets like augmented reality devices and connected cars, so its stock still looks reasonably valued at 27 times forward earnings. If you agree with that view, then it's smarter to buy Apple's stock after its latest post-earnings dip than to sell it simply because it faces some near-term supply chain 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08:05","market":"hk","language":"zh","title":"昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165733287","media":"老虎资讯综合","summary":"摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，Facebook一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④微软、Alphabet财报超预期。\n\n海外市场\n1、","content":"<blockquote>\n 摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>、Alphabet财报超预期。\n</blockquote>\n<p>海外市场</p>\n<p>1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%</p>\n<p>美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。</p>\n<p>道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低</p>\n<p>热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNET\">中网载线</a>涨近15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DDL\">叮咚</a>买菜涨超10%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IFBD\">讯鸟软件</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QK\">青客</a>涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/HX\">小白买买</a>跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DUO\">房多多</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>跌超13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TEDU\">达内科技</a>跌近13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JRJC\">金融界</a>跌超12%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QTT\">趣头条</a>跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌超5%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌超3%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>汽车跌近2%。</p>\n<p>3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UBS\">瑞银</a>季度盈利达6年最高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RB..UK\">利洁时</a>提高售价利润超预期</p>\n<p>欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。</p>\n<p>泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。</p>\n<p>4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨</p>\n<p>油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。</p>\n<p>5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”</p>\n<p>金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。</p>\n<p>美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任</p>\n<p>随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。</p>\n<p>拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。</p>\n<p>2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”</p>\n<p>美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。</p>\n<p>3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税</p>\n<p>三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。</p>\n<p>4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号</p>\n<p>近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。</p>\n<p>5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思</p>\n<p>央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。</p>\n<p>交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。</p>\n<p>6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解</p>\n<p>随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。</p>\n<p>世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400305\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400436\" target=\"_blank\">微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%</a></p>\n<p>微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178440148\" target=\"_blank\">罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 警告供应链紧张将延续</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周二，知名电脑外设制造商罗技发布第二财季报告，令市场大跌眼镜的是公司在营收继续走高的情况下，利润缺大幅跳水逾四成。截至发稿，公司股价大跌5%。</p>\n<p>跟据公司披露，截至9月30日的第二财季，公司总共实现营收13.06亿美元（分析师预期12.5亿美元），较去年同期小幅走高4%。需要说明的是，去年七至九月因疫情（宅家办公）驱动，罗技营收出现75%的激增，在2019年同期单季度销售仅为7亿美元。</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178888942\" target=\"_blank\">AMD三季度营收和EPS超预期！盘后逼近新高</a></p>\n<p>AMD公布了该公司的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，AMD第三季度营收为43.13亿美元，与上年同期的28.01亿美元相比增长54%，与上一季度的38.50亿美元相比增长12%；净利润为9.23亿美元，与上年同期的3.90亿美元相比增长137%，与上一季度的7.10亿美元相比增长30%。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178288262\" target=\"_blank\">推特Q3营收同比增超37%，广告收入同比增41%</a></p>\n<p>Twitter公布了截至9月30日的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，Twitter第三季度营收为12.84亿美元，与去年同期的9.36亿美元相比增长37%；净亏损为5.37亿美元，相比之下去年同期的净利润为2870万美元；不按照美国通用会计准则，Twitter第三季度调整后净亏损为4.34亿美元，相比之下去年同期的调整后净利润为1510万美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178409301\" target=\"_blank\">亚马逊赢得Verizon交易：利用Kuiper卫星网络提供互联网服务</a></p>\n<p>亚马逊和美国电信运营商Verizon今日联合宣布，Verizon将使用亚马逊的“Project Kuiper”卫星网络为农村和偏远地区提供宽带互联网服务。</p>\n<p>对此，亚马逊CEO安迪·贾西今日在一份声明中称：“我们很自豪能够携手合作，为最需要宽带的客户和社区带来快速、可靠的宽带服务。”</p>\n<p>7、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1146884455\" target=\"_blank\">小鹏汽车发布P5交付方案：预计明年3月31日起补装雷达</a></p>\n<p>小鹏汽车官方晚间发布小鹏P5交付方案。在交付方案中，小鹏汽车表示，因毫米雷达供货短缺，影响部分车型的生产和交付时间。对于选择提车后补装雷达交付方案的客户，小鹏方面预计2022年3月31日起分批启动补装雷达。</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ 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0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/102\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">老虎资讯综合 </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-10-27 08:05</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<blockquote>\n 摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>、Alphabet财报超预期。\n</blockquote>\n<p>海外市场</p>\n<p>1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%</p>\n<p>美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。</p>\n<p>道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低</p>\n<p>热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNET\">中网载线</a>涨近15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DDL\">叮咚</a>买菜涨超10%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IFBD\">讯鸟软件</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QK\">青客</a>涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/HX\">小白买买</a>跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DUO\">房多多</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>跌超13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TEDU\">达内科技</a>跌近13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JRJC\">金融界</a>跌超12%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QTT\">趣头条</a>跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌超5%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌超3%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>汽车跌近2%。</p>\n<p>3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UBS\">瑞银</a>季度盈利达6年最高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RB..UK\">利洁时</a>提高售价利润超预期</p>\n<p>欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。</p>\n<p>泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。</p>\n<p>4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨</p>\n<p>油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。</p>\n<p>5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”</p>\n<p>金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。</p>\n<p>美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任</p>\n<p>随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。</p>\n<p>拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。</p>\n<p>2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”</p>\n<p>美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。</p>\n<p>3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税</p>\n<p>三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。</p>\n<p>4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号</p>\n<p>近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。</p>\n<p>5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思</p>\n<p>央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。</p>\n<p>交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。</p>\n<p>6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解</p>\n<p>随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。</p>\n<p>世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400305\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400436\" target=\"_blank\">微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%</a></p>\n<p>微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178440148\" target=\"_blank\">罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 警告供应链紧张将延续</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周二，知名电脑外设制造商罗技发布第二财季报告，令市场大跌眼镜的是公司在营收继续走高的情况下，利润缺大幅跳水逾四成。截至发稿，公司股价大跌5%。</p>\n<p>跟据公司披露，截至9月30日的第二财季，公司总共实现营收13.06亿美元（分析师预期12.5亿美元），较去年同期小幅走高4%。需要说明的是，去年七至九月因疫情（宅家办公）驱动，罗技营收出现75%的激增，在2019年同期单季度销售仅为7亿美元。</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178888942\" target=\"_blank\">AMD三季度营收和EPS超预期！盘后逼近新高</a></p>\n<p>AMD公布了该公司的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，AMD第三季度营收为43.13亿美元，与上年同期的28.01亿美元相比增长54%，与上一季度的38.50亿美元相比增长12%；净利润为9.23亿美元，与上年同期的3.90亿美元相比增长137%，与上一季度的7.10亿美元相比增长30%。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178288262\" target=\"_blank\">推特Q3营收同比增超37%，广告收入同比增41%</a></p>\n<p>Twitter公布了截至9月30日的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，Twitter第三季度营收为12.84亿美元，与去年同期的9.36亿美元相比增长37%；净亏损为5.37亿美元，相比之下去年同期的净利润为2870万美元；不按照美国通用会计准则，Twitter第三季度调整后净亏损为4.34亿美元，相比之下去年同期的调整后净利润为1510万美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178409301\" target=\"_blank\">亚马逊赢得Verizon交易：利用Kuiper卫星网络提供互联网服务</a></p>\n<p>亚马逊和美国电信运营商Verizon今日联合宣布，Verizon将使用亚马逊的“Project Kuiper”卫星网络为农村和偏远地区提供宽带互联网服务。</p>\n<p>对此，亚马逊CEO安迪·贾西今日在一份声明中称：“我们很自豪能够携手合作，为最需要宽带的客户和社区带来快速、可靠的宽带服务。”</p>\n<p>7、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1146884455\" target=\"_blank\">小鹏汽车发布P5交付方案：预计明年3月31日起补装雷达</a></p>\n<p>小鹏汽车官方晚间发布小鹏P5交付方案。在交付方案中，小鹏汽车表示，因毫米雷达供货短缺，影响部分车型的生产和交付时间。对于选择提车后补装雷达交付方案的客户，小鹏方面预计2022年3月31日起分批启动补装雷达。</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b23574aac95526c9e5c62ebc8dd25130","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".DJI":"道琼斯","MSFT":"微软",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","GOOG":"谷歌","GOOGL":"谷歌A"},"is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165733287","content_text":"摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，Facebook一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④微软、Alphabet财报超预期。\n\n海外市场\n1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%\n美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。\n道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。\n2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低\n热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。中网载线涨近15%，叮咚买菜涨超10%，讯鸟软件、青客涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。小白买买跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，房多多、贝壳跌超13%，达内科技跌近13%，金融界跌超12%，趣头条跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，小鹏汽车跌超5%，理想汽车跌超3%，蔚来汽车跌近2%。\n3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 瑞银季度盈利达6年最高 利洁时提高售价利润超预期\n欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。\n泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。\n4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨\n油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。\n5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”\n金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。\n美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。\n国际宏观\n1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任\n随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。\n拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。\n2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”\n美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。\n3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税\n三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。\n4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号\n近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。\n5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思\n央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。\n交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。\n6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解\n随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。\n世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。\n公司新闻\n1、谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期\n谷歌母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。\n2、微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%\n微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。\n3、罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 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All three indexes posted weekly gains.</p>\n<p>Comcast Corp tumbled after Wells Fargo cut its price target on the media company, while Charter Communications Inc fell after Wells Fargo downgraded that cable operator to “underweight” from “overweight”.</p>\n<p>Both companies were among the biggest drags on the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq.</p>\n<p>Real estate and utilities were the poorest performers among 11 S&amp;P 500 sector indexes, down 1.1% and 0.7%, respectively.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 energy sector index jumped 3.1%, with oil up more than 4% on the week as a global energy crunch has boosted prices to their highest since 2014.</p>\n<p>Chevron and Exxon Mobil rallied more than 2% and were among the companies giving the S&amp;P 500 the greatest lift.</p>\n<p>The Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls report showed the U.S. economy in September created the fewest jobs in nine months as hiring dropped at schools and some businesses were short of workers. The unemployment rate fell to 4.8% from 5.2% in August and average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was more than expected.</p>\n<p>“I think that the Federal Reserve made it very clear that they don’t need a blockbuster jobs report to taper in November,” said Kathy Lien, Managing Director at BK Asset Management in New York. “I think the Fed remains on track.”</p>\n<p>Futures on the federal funds rate priced in a quarter-point tightening by the Federal Reserve by November or December next year.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.03% to end at 34,746.25 points, while the S&amp;P 500 lost 0.19% to 4,391.35.</p>\n<p>The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.51% to 14,579.54.</p>\n<p>For the week, the S&amp;P 500 rose 0.8%, the Dow added 1.2% and the Nasdaq gained 0.1%.</p>\n<p>Third-quarter reporting season kicks off next week, with JPMorgan Chase and other big banks among the first to post results. Investors are focused on global supply chain problems and labor shortages.</p>\n<p>Analysts see Q3 U.S. earnings growth of 30%:</p>\n<p>Analysts on average expect S&amp;P 500 earnings per share for the quarter to be up almost 30%, according to Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>“I think it’s going to be a dicey earnings season,” warned Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York. “If supply-chain issues are driving up costs, a company with strong pricing power can pass through those rising costs. But you can’t pass through a labor shortage if you can’t find workers to hire.”</p>\n<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.24-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.52-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 26 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 113 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.2 billion shares, compared with the 11 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>","source":"lsy1601381805984","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>S&P 500 ends lower after U.S. September jobs miss</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nS&P 500 ends lower after U.S. September jobs miss\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-09 07:13 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>(Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100565546","content_text":"(Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this year.\nWall Street’s three main indexes were mixed for much of the session before losing ground toward the end. All three indexes posted weekly gains.\nComcast Corp tumbled after Wells Fargo cut its price target on the media company, while Charter Communications Inc fell after Wells Fargo downgraded that cable operator to “underweight” from “overweight”.\nBoth companies were among the biggest drags on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.\nReal estate and utilities were the poorest performers among 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, down 1.1% and 0.7%, respectively.\nThe S&P 500 energy sector index jumped 3.1%, with oil up more than 4% on the week as a global energy crunch has boosted prices to their highest since 2014.\nChevron and Exxon Mobil rallied more than 2% and were among the companies giving the S&P 500 the greatest lift.\nThe Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls report showed the U.S. economy in September created the fewest jobs in nine months as hiring dropped at schools and some businesses were short of workers. The unemployment rate fell to 4.8% from 5.2% in August and average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was more than expected.\n“I think that the Federal Reserve made it very clear that they don’t need a blockbuster jobs report to taper in November,” said Kathy Lien, Managing Director at BK Asset Management in New York. “I think the Fed remains on track.”\nFutures on the federal funds rate priced in a quarter-point tightening by the Federal Reserve by November or December next year.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.03% to end at 34,746.25 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.19% to 4,391.35.\nThe Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.51% to 14,579.54.\nFor the week, the S&P 500 rose 0.8%, the Dow added 1.2% and the Nasdaq gained 0.1%.\nThird-quarter reporting season kicks off next week, with JPMorgan Chase and other big banks among the first to post results. Investors are focused on global supply chain problems and labor shortages.\nAnalysts see Q3 U.S. earnings growth of 30%:\nAnalysts on average expect S&P 500 earnings per share for the quarter to be up almost 30%, according to Refinitiv.\n“I think it’s going to be a dicey earnings season,” warned Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York. “If supply-chain issues are driving up costs, a company with strong pricing power can pass through those rising costs. But you can’t pass through a labor shortage if you can’t find workers to hire.”\nDeclining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.24-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.52-to-1 ratio favored decliners.\nThe S&P 500 posted 26 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 113 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 9.2 billion shares, compared with the 11 billion average over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":151,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":865877369,"gmtCreate":1632971423455,"gmtModify":1632971423724,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Pain is coming","listText":"Pain is coming","text":"Pain is coming","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/865877369","repostId":"2171331319","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":549,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":821675866,"gmtCreate":1633744214921,"gmtModify":1633744215052,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/821675866","repostId":"1100565546","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1100565546","pubTimestamp":1633734823,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1100565546?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-09 07:13","market":"us","language":"en","title":"S&P 500 ends lower after U.S. September jobs miss","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1100565546","media":"Reuters","summary":" - The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this year.Wall Street’s three main indexes were mixed for much of the session before losing ground toward the end. All three indexes posted weekly gains.Comcast Corp tumbled after Wells Fargo cut its price target on the media company, while Charter Communications Inc fell after Wells Fargo downgraded that cable op","content":"<p>(Reuters) - The S&amp;P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this year.</p>\n<p>Wall Street’s three main indexes were mixed for much of the session before losing ground toward the end. All three indexes posted weekly gains.</p>\n<p>Comcast Corp tumbled after Wells Fargo cut its price target on the media company, while Charter Communications Inc fell after Wells Fargo downgraded that cable operator to “underweight” from “overweight”.</p>\n<p>Both companies were among the biggest drags on the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq.</p>\n<p>Real estate and utilities were the poorest performers among 11 S&amp;P 500 sector indexes, down 1.1% and 0.7%, respectively.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 energy sector index jumped 3.1%, with oil up more than 4% on the week as a global energy crunch has boosted prices to their highest since 2014.</p>\n<p>Chevron and Exxon Mobil rallied more than 2% and were among the companies giving the S&amp;P 500 the greatest lift.</p>\n<p>The Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls report showed the U.S. economy in September created the fewest jobs in nine months as hiring dropped at schools and some businesses were short of workers. The unemployment rate fell to 4.8% from 5.2% in August and average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was more than expected.</p>\n<p>“I think that the Federal Reserve made it very clear that they don’t need a blockbuster jobs report to taper in November,” said Kathy Lien, Managing Director at BK Asset Management in New York. “I think the Fed remains on track.”</p>\n<p>Futures on the federal funds rate priced in a quarter-point tightening by the Federal Reserve by November or December next year.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.03% to end at 34,746.25 points, while the S&amp;P 500 lost 0.19% to 4,391.35.</p>\n<p>The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.51% to 14,579.54.</p>\n<p>For the week, the S&amp;P 500 rose 0.8%, the Dow added 1.2% and the Nasdaq gained 0.1%.</p>\n<p>Third-quarter reporting season kicks off next week, with JPMorgan Chase and other big banks among the first to post results. Investors are focused on global supply chain problems and labor shortages.</p>\n<p>Analysts see Q3 U.S. earnings growth of 30%:</p>\n<p>Analysts on average expect S&amp;P 500 earnings per share for the quarter to be up almost 30%, according to Refinitiv.</p>\n<p>“I think it’s going to be a dicey earnings season,” warned Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York. “If supply-chain issues are driving up costs, a company with strong pricing power can pass through those rising costs. But you can’t pass through a labor shortage if you can’t find workers to hire.”</p>\n<p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.24-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.52-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 26 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 113 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.2 billion shares, compared with the 11 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>","source":"lsy1601381805984","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>S&P 500 ends lower after U.S. September jobs miss</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nS&P 500 ends lower after U.S. September jobs miss\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-09 07:13 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>(Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-sp-500-ends-lower-after-u-s-september-jobs-miss-idUSL1N2R42C9","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100565546","content_text":"(Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended lower on Friday after data showed weaker jobs growth than expected in September, yet investors still expected the Federal Reserve to begin tapering asset purchases this year.\nWall Street’s three main indexes were mixed for much of the session before losing ground toward the end. All three indexes posted weekly gains.\nComcast Corp tumbled after Wells Fargo cut its price target on the media company, while Charter Communications Inc fell after Wells Fargo downgraded that cable operator to “underweight” from “overweight”.\nBoth companies were among the biggest drags on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.\nReal estate and utilities were the poorest performers among 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, down 1.1% and 0.7%, respectively.\nThe S&P 500 energy sector index jumped 3.1%, with oil up more than 4% on the week as a global energy crunch has boosted prices to their highest since 2014.\nChevron and Exxon Mobil rallied more than 2% and were among the companies giving the S&P 500 the greatest lift.\nThe Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls report showed the U.S. economy in September created the fewest jobs in nine months as hiring dropped at schools and some businesses were short of workers. The unemployment rate fell to 4.8% from 5.2% in August and average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was more than expected.\n“I think that the Federal Reserve made it very clear that they don’t need a blockbuster jobs report to taper in November,” said Kathy Lien, Managing Director at BK Asset Management in New York. “I think the Fed remains on track.”\nFutures on the federal funds rate priced in a quarter-point tightening by the Federal Reserve by November or December next year.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.03% to end at 34,746.25 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.19% to 4,391.35.\nThe Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.51% to 14,579.54.\nFor the week, the S&P 500 rose 0.8%, the Dow added 1.2% and the Nasdaq gained 0.1%.\nThird-quarter reporting season kicks off next week, with JPMorgan Chase and other big banks among the first to post results. Investors are focused on global supply chain problems and labor shortages.\nAnalysts see Q3 U.S. earnings growth of 30%:\nAnalysts on average expect S&P 500 earnings per share for the quarter to be up almost 30%, according to Refinitiv.\n“I think it’s going to be a dicey earnings season,” warned Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York. “If supply-chain issues are driving up costs, a company with strong pricing power can pass through those rising costs. But you can’t pass through a labor shortage if you can’t find workers to hire.”\nDeclining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.24-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.52-to-1 ratio favored decliners.\nThe S&P 500 posted 26 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 113 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 9.2 billion shares, compared with the 11 billion average over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":151,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":636596428,"gmtCreate":1645975336594,"gmtModify":1645975336790,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"true","listText":"true","text":"true","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/636596428","repostId":"1125580913","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1125580913","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1645926503,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1125580913?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2022-02-27 09:48","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Buffett Full Annual Letter：Apple is One of ‘Four Giants’ Driving the Conglomerate’s Value","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1125580913","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-yea","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”Read the full letter here：To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”The Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the 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08:05","market":"hk","language":"zh","title":"昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165733287","media":"老虎资讯综合","summary":"摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，Facebook一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④微软、Alphabet财报超预期。\n\n海外市场\n1、","content":"<blockquote>\n 摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>、Alphabet财报超预期。\n</blockquote>\n<p>海外市场</p>\n<p>1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%</p>\n<p>美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。</p>\n<p>道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低</p>\n<p>热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNET\">中网载线</a>涨近15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DDL\">叮咚</a>买菜涨超10%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IFBD\">讯鸟软件</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QK\">青客</a>涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/HX\">小白买买</a>跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DUO\">房多多</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>跌超13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TEDU\">达内科技</a>跌近13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JRJC\">金融界</a>跌超12%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QTT\">趣头条</a>跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌超5%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌超3%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>汽车跌近2%。</p>\n<p>3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UBS\">瑞银</a>季度盈利达6年最高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RB..UK\">利洁时</a>提高售价利润超预期</p>\n<p>欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。</p>\n<p>泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。</p>\n<p>4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨</p>\n<p>油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。</p>\n<p>5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”</p>\n<p>金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。</p>\n<p>美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任</p>\n<p>随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。</p>\n<p>拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。</p>\n<p>2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”</p>\n<p>美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。</p>\n<p>3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税</p>\n<p>三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。</p>\n<p>4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号</p>\n<p>近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。</p>\n<p>5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思</p>\n<p>央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。</p>\n<p>交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。</p>\n<p>6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解</p>\n<p>随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。</p>\n<p>世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400305\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400436\" target=\"_blank\">微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%</a></p>\n<p>微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178440148\" target=\"_blank\">罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 警告供应链紧张将延续</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周二，知名电脑外设制造商罗技发布第二财季报告，令市场大跌眼镜的是公司在营收继续走高的情况下，利润缺大幅跳水逾四成。截至发稿，公司股价大跌5%。</p>\n<p>跟据公司披露，截至9月30日的第二财季，公司总共实现营收13.06亿美元（分析师预期12.5亿美元），较去年同期小幅走高4%。需要说明的是，去年七至九月因疫情（宅家办公）驱动，罗技营收出现75%的激增，在2019年同期单季度销售仅为7亿美元。</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178888942\" target=\"_blank\">AMD三季度营收和EPS超预期！盘后逼近新高</a></p>\n<p>AMD公布了该公司的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，AMD第三季度营收为43.13亿美元，与上年同期的28.01亿美元相比增长54%，与上一季度的38.50亿美元相比增长12%；净利润为9.23亿美元，与上年同期的3.90亿美元相比增长137%，与上一季度的7.10亿美元相比增长30%。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178288262\" target=\"_blank\">推特Q3营收同比增超37%，广告收入同比增41%</a></p>\n<p>Twitter公布了截至9月30日的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，Twitter第三季度营收为12.84亿美元，与去年同期的9.36亿美元相比增长37%；净亏损为5.37亿美元，相比之下去年同期的净利润为2870万美元；不按照美国通用会计准则，Twitter第三季度调整后净亏损为4.34亿美元，相比之下去年同期的调整后净利润为1510万美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178409301\" target=\"_blank\">亚马逊赢得Verizon交易：利用Kuiper卫星网络提供互联网服务</a></p>\n<p>亚马逊和美国电信运营商Verizon今日联合宣布，Verizon将使用亚马逊的“Project Kuiper”卫星网络为农村和偏远地区提供宽带互联网服务。</p>\n<p>对此，亚马逊CEO安迪·贾西今日在一份声明中称：“我们很自豪能够携手合作，为最需要宽带的客户和社区带来快速、可靠的宽带服务。”</p>\n<p>7、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1146884455\" target=\"_blank\">小鹏汽车发布P5交付方案：预计明年3月31日起补装雷达</a></p>\n<p>小鹏汽车官方晚间发布小鹏P5交付方案。在交付方案中，小鹏汽车表示，因毫米雷达供货短缺，影响部分车型的生产和交付时间。对于选择提车后补装雷达交付方案的客户，小鹏方面预计2022年3月31日起分批启动补装雷达。</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ 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0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n昨夜今晨：美股三连涨！微软、Alphabet财报超预期\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/102\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">老虎资讯综合 </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-10-27 08:05</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<blockquote>\n 摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>、Alphabet财报超预期。\n</blockquote>\n<p>海外市场</p>\n<p>1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%</p>\n<p>美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。</p>\n<p>道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低</p>\n<p>热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNET\">中网载线</a>涨近15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DDL\">叮咚</a>买菜涨超10%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IFBD\">讯鸟软件</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QK\">青客</a>涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/HX\">小白买买</a>跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DUO\">房多多</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>跌超13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TEDU\">达内科技</a>跌近13%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JRJC\">金融界</a>跌超12%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QTT\">趣头条</a>跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/XPEV\">小鹏汽车</a>跌超5%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌超3%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NIO\">蔚来</a>汽车跌近2%。</p>\n<p>3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UBS\">瑞银</a>季度盈利达6年最高 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RB..UK\">利洁时</a>提高售价利润超预期</p>\n<p>欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。</p>\n<p>泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。</p>\n<p>4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨</p>\n<p>油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。</p>\n<p>5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”</p>\n<p>金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。</p>\n<p>美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任</p>\n<p>随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。</p>\n<p>拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。</p>\n<p>2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”</p>\n<p>美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。</p>\n<p>3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税</p>\n<p>三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。</p>\n<p>4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号</p>\n<p>近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。</p>\n<p>5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思</p>\n<p>央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。</p>\n<p>交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。</p>\n<p>6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解</p>\n<p>随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。</p>\n<p>世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400305\" target=\"_blank\">谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178400436\" target=\"_blank\">微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%</a></p>\n<p>微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178440148\" target=\"_blank\">罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 警告供应链紧张将延续</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周二，知名电脑外设制造商罗技发布第二财季报告，令市场大跌眼镜的是公司在营收继续走高的情况下，利润缺大幅跳水逾四成。截至发稿，公司股价大跌5%。</p>\n<p>跟据公司披露，截至9月30日的第二财季，公司总共实现营收13.06亿美元（分析师预期12.5亿美元），较去年同期小幅走高4%。需要说明的是，去年七至九月因疫情（宅家办公）驱动，罗技营收出现75%的激增，在2019年同期单季度销售仅为7亿美元。</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178888942\" target=\"_blank\">AMD三季度营收和EPS超预期！盘后逼近新高</a></p>\n<p>AMD公布了该公司的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，AMD第三季度营收为43.13亿美元，与上年同期的28.01亿美元相比增长54%，与上一季度的38.50亿美元相比增长12%；净利润为9.23亿美元，与上年同期的3.90亿美元相比增长137%，与上一季度的7.10亿美元相比增长30%。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178288262\" target=\"_blank\">推特Q3营收同比增超37%，广告收入同比增41%</a></p>\n<p>Twitter公布了截至9月30日的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，Twitter第三季度营收为12.84亿美元，与去年同期的9.36亿美元相比增长37%；净亏损为5.37亿美元，相比之下去年同期的净利润为2870万美元；不按照美国通用会计准则，Twitter第三季度调整后净亏损为4.34亿美元，相比之下去年同期的调整后净利润为1510万美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2178409301\" target=\"_blank\">亚马逊赢得Verizon交易：利用Kuiper卫星网络提供互联网服务</a></p>\n<p>亚马逊和美国电信运营商Verizon今日联合宣布，Verizon将使用亚马逊的“Project Kuiper”卫星网络为农村和偏远地区提供宽带互联网服务。</p>\n<p>对此，亚马逊CEO安迪·贾西今日在一份声明中称：“我们很自豪能够携手合作，为最需要宽带的客户和社区带来快速、可靠的宽带服务。”</p>\n<p>7、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1146884455\" target=\"_blank\">小鹏汽车发布P5交付方案：预计明年3月31日起补装雷达</a></p>\n<p>小鹏汽车官方晚间发布小鹏P5交付方案。在交付方案中，小鹏汽车表示，因毫米雷达供货短缺，影响部分车型的生产和交付时间。对于选择提车后补装雷达交付方案的客户，小鹏方面预计2022年3月31日起分批启动补装雷达。</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b23574aac95526c9e5c62ebc8dd25130","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".DJI":"道琼斯","MSFT":"微软",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","GOOG":"谷歌","GOOGL":"谷歌A"},"is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165733287","content_text":"摘要：①三连涨！美股再创历史新高，Facebook一度大跌逾5%；②热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股走低；③油价小幅升至2014年来最高水平；④微软、Alphabet财报超预期。\n\n海外市场\n1、三连涨！美股再创历史新高 Facebook一度大跌逾5%\n美国股市连续第三日上涨，道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数创下新高，Facebook股价在公布季度业绩后下跌，使得美股的涨幅受到抑制。\n道琼斯指数收盘上涨15.73点，再创新高，稍早一度攀升约150点，创下盘中新高。标准普尔500指数上涨近0.2%，触及4574.79点的历史新高。纳斯达克综合指数上涨不到0.1%。\n2、热门中概股周二收盘普跌 新能源汽车股走低\n热门中概股周二收盘普跌，新能源汽车股昨日大幅上涨后纷纷走低。中网载线涨近15%，叮咚买菜涨超10%，讯鸟软件、青客涨超7%，乐居涨超5%。小白买买跌超21%，瑞思跌超15%，房多多、贝壳跌超13%，达内科技跌近13%，金融界跌超12%，趣头条跌超11%。新能源汽车股中，小鹏汽车跌超5%，理想汽车跌超3%，蔚来汽车跌近2%。\n3、欧洲斯托克600指数创收盘新高 瑞银季度盈利达6年最高 利洁时提高售价利润超预期\n欧洲股市周二触及七周高点，因为瑞银(UBS)、利洁时(Reckitt Benckiser)等公司的强劲业绩增加了对第三季度盈利季股市整体的乐观情绪。\n泛欧斯托克600指数收盘上涨3.33点，涨幅0.71%，报475.55点；德国DAX30指数收盘上涨158.47点，涨幅1.02%，报15757.70点。\n4、全球能源价格仍处于高位 油价上涨\n油价小幅升至2014年以来的最高水平，受到全球供应短缺和全球最大消费国美国强劲需求的支撑。截至发稿，美国WTI原油11月期货上涨82美分，涨幅0.98%，报84.58美元/桶；布伦特12月期货上涨43美分，涨幅0.50%，报85.60美元/桶。\n5、黄金遭遇“当头棒击”、贵金属集体“跳水”\n金价一度下跌逾1%，结束了连续五个交易日的上涨势头，原因是美元走强，而强劲的企业财报提振了投资者对风险较高资产的需求。\n美市尾盘，现货黄金收报1792.58美元/盎司，下跌14.90美元或0.82%，盘中最高触及1808.25美元，最低触及1782.26美元。\n国际宏观\n1、拜登将注意力转向填补美联储空缺 但尚未决定是否让鲍威尔留任\n随着杰罗姆·鲍威尔的美联储主席任期即将届满，美国总统乔·拜登和其主要顾问已经开始将注意力聚焦于填补美联储的一系列空缺职位上。据两位知情人士透露，拜登已经开始与白宫和财政部的高级幕僚会面以评估候选人，尽管白宫因参与总统数万亿美元经济议程的磋商而消耗了大量精力。\n拜登尚未就提名人选拿定主意，目前还不清楚他是倾向于继续提名鲍威尔还是倾向于以自由派民主党人青睐的美联储理事Lael Brainard取而代之，或是提名另一个完全不同的人士。拜登已经通过在本届政府中一些重要职位提名时在“性别”或“种族”方面的屡次“第一”而表明了他的观点。\n2、美联储理事会大换血？ 参议员透露拜登至多提名四张“新面孔”\n美国参议院银行委员会主席谢罗德·布朗告诉彭博，他预计美国总统拜登在决定美联储主席人选后，会公布一系列美联储理事会的提名。这位俄亥俄州民主党参议院表示，“我认为拜登准备提名至多四位美联储理事会人选。”布朗透露已经就此事与拜登进行了交谈，但他无法预测拜登的最终决定。\n3、民主党参议员提出对盈利超10亿美元的美国公司最低征收15%所得税\n三位美国关键参议员披露一项立法提案，将要求一些美国公司就向股东报告的利润至少支付15%的所得税率，这是议员们为拜登经济议程寻找税收来源的最新举措。King表示，这项新税将在10年内筹集3000亿至4000亿美元。他还表示，该提案将与拜登政府支持的全球企业15%最低税率相吻合。\n4、美国原油库存告急！油价出现了“100美元”的信号\n近期让原油价格飞涨的罪魁祸首不是飙升的天然气价格，也不是欧佩克+的限量供给，而是全球最大的储油基地及美国原油期货主要交割地——美国库欣原油储存中心。库欣原油库存即将降至最低水平，交易员都在为此而发愁。衡量原油市场健康状况的时间价差飙至数年来新高，且目前已经波及到布伦特原油价格。\n5、债券指数向各国鹰派央行发出警告：加息请三思\n央行可能转向鹰派一段时间后不得不再次转为鸽派。随着世界各国央行纷纷将接近历史低位的利率提高，债券市场上用于衡量增长的指数发出了不详的警告。\n交易员们猜测在英国、新西兰和韩国等发达国家的生活成本以及大宗商品飙升的背景下，明年这些国家最多将会加息161个基点。\n6、美国10月消费者信心指数意外上升 对疫情担忧出现缓解\n随着人们对疫情的担忧缓解，美国10月消费者信心指数出现四个月来首次上升。计划购买住宅，汽车和主要家电的消费者比例在10月都升高了。\n世界大型企业研究会周二发布数据称，消费者信心指数从9月上修后的的109.8升至113.8。接受调查的经济学家此前预期为108。\n公司新闻\n1、谷歌Q3营收盈利强劲！云和YouTube广告收入逊于预期\n谷歌母公司Alphabet周二盘后公布了该公司三季度财报，利润和营收均超出了分析师预期。财报显示，Alphabet三季度每股收益27.99美元，市场预期23.48美元；营收651.2亿美元，市场预期633.4亿美元；净利润189.36亿美元，同比增长68%，市场预期162.08亿美元。\n2、微软第一财季营收同比增长22% 净利润同比增长48%\n微软周二盘后公布了该公司第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季调整后每股收益2.27美元；营收453.2亿美元，同比增长22%，市场预期439.7亿美元；净利润205亿美元，同比增长48%。\n3、罗技财报创同期营收新高但利润下滑四成 警告供应链紧张将延续\n当地时间周二，知名电脑外设制造商罗技发布第二财季报告，令市场大跌眼镜的是公司在营收继续走高的情况下，利润缺大幅跳水逾四成。截至发稿，公司股价大跌5%。\n跟据公司披露，截至9月30日的第二财季，公司总共实现营收13.06亿美元（分析师预期12.5亿美元），较去年同期小幅走高4%。需要说明的是，去年七至九月因疫情（宅家办公）驱动，罗技营收出现75%的激增，在2019年同期单季度销售仅为7亿美元。\n4、AMD三季度营收和EPS超预期！盘后逼近新高\nAMD公布了该公司的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，AMD第三季度营收为43.13亿美元，与上年同期的28.01亿美元相比增长54%，与上一季度的38.50亿美元相比增长12%；净利润为9.23亿美元，与上年同期的3.90亿美元相比增长137%，与上一季度的7.10亿美元相比增长30%。\n5、推特Q3营收同比增超37%，广告收入同比增41%\nTwitter公布了截至9月30日的2021财年第三季度财报。报告显示，Twitter第三季度营收为12.84亿美元，与去年同期的9.36亿美元相比增长37%；净亏损为5.37亿美元，相比之下去年同期的净利润为2870万美元；不按照美国通用会计准则，Twitter第三季度调整后净亏损为4.34亿美元，相比之下去年同期的调整后净利润为1510万美元。\n6、亚马逊赢得Verizon交易：利用Kuiper卫星网络提供互联网服务\n亚马逊和美国电信运营商Verizon今日联合宣布，Verizon将使用亚马逊的“Project Kuiper”卫星网络为农村和偏远地区提供宽带互联网服务。\n对此，亚马逊CEO安迪·贾西今日在一份声明中称：“我们很自豪能够携手合作，为最需要宽带的客户和社区带来快速、可靠的宽带服务。”\n7、小鹏汽车发布P5交付方案：预计明年3月31日起补装雷达\n小鹏汽车官方晚间发布小鹏P5交付方案。在交付方案中，小鹏汽车表示，因毫米雷达供货短缺，影响部分车型的生产和交付时间。对于选择提车后补装雷达交付方案的客户，小鹏方面预计2022年3月31日起分批启动补装雷达。","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":714,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":853484525,"gmtCreate":1634829428919,"gmtModify":1634829429269,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"True","listText":"True","text":"True","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/853484525","repostId":"2177465199","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":752,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":826144072,"gmtCreate":1633999600195,"gmtModify":1633999600195,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Expected","listText":"Expected","text":"Expected","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/826144072","repostId":"1121277216","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1121277216","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"为用户提供金融资讯、行情、数据，旨在帮助投资者理解世界，做投资决策。","home_visible":1,"media_name":"老虎资讯综合","id":"102","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1633996638,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1121277216?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-12 07:57","market":"us","language":"zh","title":"昨夜今晨：能源危机压顶！美油再创七年新高","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1121277216","media":"老虎资讯综合","summary":"摘要：①周一美股三大指数集体收跌，道指跌0.72%，纳指跌0.64%，标普500指数跌0.69%；②美国WTI原油收高1.5%，7年来首次站上80美元；③土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。交易员关注能源价格飙升和即将开始的美股财报季节。全球能源危机持续，提振了原油需求。联合国粮食署近期表示，受谷物和植物油上涨的推动，9月份世界粮食价格连续第二个月上涨，9月平均为 130.0 点，同比增加32.8%，达到10年来的最高点。","content":"<blockquote>\n 摘要：①周一美股三大指数集体收跌，道指跌0.72%，纳指跌0.64%，标普500指数跌0.69%；②美国WTI原油收高1.5%，7年来首次站上80美元；③土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。\n</blockquote>\n<p>1、美三大指数集体收跌 道指跌0.72%</p>\n<p>美股周一承压冲高回落，三大指数集体收跌。交易员关注能源价格飙升和即将开始的美股财报季节。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GS\">高盛</a>下调美国今明两年经济增长预期，并预测美联储不急于上调利率。截至收盘，道琼斯指数跌0.72%，纳斯达克指数跌0.64%，标普500指数跌0.69%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周一收盘涨跌互现 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>涨近6%</p>\n<p>热门中概股周一收盘涨跌互现，贝壳涨近6%，针对上海研发团队裁员的传闻，贝壳找房回应称，对上海<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RF\">地区金融</a>等部分业务进行调整，涉及到的员工将严格遵守国家劳动法等相关法律法规进行妥善安排。</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOTU\">高途</a>涨超19%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EDU\">新东方</a>涨超4%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TAL\">好未来</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IQ\">爱奇艺</a>涨超2%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BABA\">阿里巴巴</a>涨超1%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/OG\">洋葱集团</a>跌超17%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEST\">百世集团</a>跌超11%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PDD\">拼多多</a>跌超1%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JD\">京东</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌近1%。</p>\n<p>3、欧股收盘涨跌不一 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VUKE.UK\">英国富时100</a>指数涨0.72%</p>\n<p>因围绕通胀和即将到来的财报季的紧张情绪抵消了支撑石油和矿业股的大宗商品价格飙升。最终，欧股收盘涨跌不一，德国DAX指数跌0.05%报15199.14点，法国CAC40指数涨0.16%报6570.54点，英国<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/.100.UK\">富时100指数</a>涨0.72%报7146.85点。</p>\n<p>4、美国WTI原油收高1.5% 7年来首次站上80美元</p>\n<p>全球能源危机持续，提振了原油需求。最终，纽约商品交易所11月交割的原油期货价格上涨1.17美元，涨幅1.5%，收于每桶80.52美元。这是近月WTI原油合约自2014年10月31日以来首次收在80美元之上。</p>\n<p>5、黄金期货周一收跌0.1% 连续第三个交易日下滑</p>\n<p>周一，纽约商品交易所12月交割的黄金期货价格下跌1.70美元，跌幅0.1%，录得连续第三个交易日下跌，收于每盎司1755.70美元，创9月29日以来最低收盘价。</p>\n<p>6、土耳其里拉贬值再创历史新低 对美元汇率跌破9</p>\n<p>当地时间10月11日，土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。当天，土耳其央行行长沙哈普·卡夫奇奥卢在大国民议会表示，“汇率和利率没有关联”，目前土耳其利率处于预期水平。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、高盛首席经济学家Hatzius预计美联储明年不会加息</p>\n<p>高盛集团首席经济学家认为，明年美国经济增速放缓将意味着美联储不急于上调利率。Jan Hatzius周一表示，虽然预计美联储会在下次会议宣布缩减资产购买规模，但过程将耗费数月，而利率在2023年前不会上调。</p>\n<p>2、美国通胀预期指标逼近7年高点 美联储或失去对物价压力掌控</p>\n<p>5y5y远期盈亏平衡通胀率接近约七年来最高水平，这是该指数近几个月来第二次发出类似警示。 5月份，类似的上涨促使前 美联储理事会货币和金融市场分析主管Brian Sack加入其他官员行列，警告 美联储有必要发出政策调整信号</p>\n<p>3、美国原油价格达到每桶80美元 或加剧通货膨胀</p>\n<p>美国汽油协会(AAA)的数据显示，11日美国汽油平均价格创下7年来的新高，达到每加仑3.27美元，仅过去一周就上涨了7美分。自2020年4月触底至每加仑1.77美元以来，汽油价格几乎翻了一番。自新冠肺炎疫情暴发以来，人们的出行需求大幅下降，油价也大幅降低。而今年随着美国人的出行需求恢复，汽油供不应求，造成了美国的油价持续上涨。</p>\n<p>CNN在报道中写道，高油价会加剧通货膨胀，而全球目前面临的能源危机很可能会继续推高汽油价格。</p>\n<p>4、世卫组织建议为免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗</p>\n<p>当地时间11日，世卫组织免疫战略咨询专家组举行发布会，专家组建议为中度和重度免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗，因为该群体在接种标准疫苗剂量后，不太可能产生足够的免疫反应，且为新冠肺炎重症的高风险人群。</p>\n<p>5、世行：2020年低收入国家债务增长12%至8600亿美元 创纪录新高</p>\n<p>世界银行在周一发布的一份报告中表示，随着各国以大规模的财政、货币和金融刺激计划应对新冠疫情危机，2020年全球低收入国家的债务负担增加了12%，达到创纪录的8600亿美元。</p>\n<p>6、越南上百万工人逃离工厂，全球产业链又遭重创，iPhone13也受影响</p>\n<p>据报道，由于越南政府解除了胡志明与周围地区的防疫封城措施，工人开始逃离新冠疫情严重的南部工业区，返回乡下。越南政府估计，可能有超过200万人离开。除了球鞋、衣服等，工厂停工也可能影响到<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>之类的科技公司。分析师表示，零件供应商关厂还可能使得苹果遭遇iPhone13交货中断。据此前英国金融时报援引知情人士透露，此次供货中断主要与四款 iPhone 13 机型的相机模块供应受限有关，因为其大量零部件在越南组装。</p>\n<p>7、G7拟定央行数字货币首个原则草案</p>\n<p>外交消息人士透露，日美欧七国集团（G7）财长和央行行长已拟定<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNBC\">中央银行</a>数字货币（CBDC）相关的首个共同原则草案，13日在美国首都华盛顿召开的G7财长和央行行长会议上将正式批准。对于数字货币的发行国，要求对处理个人信息等“保持透明度和尽到说明责任”。</p>\n<p>8、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JPM\">摩根大通</a>CEO：比特币“一文不值”</p>\n<p>当地时间周一的一次会议上，摩根大通CEO杰米·戴蒙表示，区块链是真实的，稳定币也可以是真实的，从政府层面监管加密数字货币将是一种现实。但他个人认为，比特币并没有什么价值。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174970314\" target=\"_blank\">拒绝“中国制造”特斯拉，印度何以“强硬”要求马斯克“二选一”</a></p>\n<p>据彭博社10月10日报道，印度公路交通和运输部部长加德卡里明确表示，特斯拉想要进入印度市场，就不得在印度销售中国制造的汽车。</p>\n<p>加德卡里对媒体表示，特斯拉应该“在印度本地制造、销售汽车并向全球出口”，而印度政府将为特斯拉提供一切必要的支持。“我已经告诉特斯拉，不要在印度销售你们公司在中国生产的电动汽车。”</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174390339\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix 将在沃尔玛网站开专区：销售《鱿鱼游戏》等周边</a></p>\n<p>据华尔街日报报道，美国流媒体巨头Netflix称，Netflix 将与沃尔玛合作，在该零售商的网站上创建一个数字店面。该店铺将销售与《怪奇物语》 和《鱿鱼游戏》等热门节目相关的商品。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174185613\" target=\"_blank\">通胀是暂时的？食品巨头卡夫亨氏警告消费者适应高价产品</a></p>\n<p>联合国粮食署近期表示，受谷物和植物油上涨的推动，9月份世界粮食价格连续第二个月上涨，9月平均为 130.0 点，同比增加32.8%，达到10年来的最高点。BBC 新闻采访了卡夫亨氏的欧洲老板 Miguel Patricio 时，他警告消费者必须适应更高的食品价格。他说：“我们正在全球范围内在必要时提高价格。”</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174329185\" target=\"_blank\">“门口的野蛮人”、华尔街传奇私募股权基金KKR完成掌门人更替</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周一早晨，全球私募股权投资巨头科尔伯格-克拉维斯-罗伯茨宣布完成管理层接班，49岁的Joe Bae和48岁的Scott Nuttall出任联席CEO，78和79岁的公司创始人亨利·克拉维斯和乔治罗伯茨将退居二线担任联席执行董事长，仍将参与公司的管理事务。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174081188\" target=\"_blank\">铜涨价预期强烈！智利国家铜业公司上调欧洲铜溢价31%</a></p>\n<p>智利国家铜业公司 Codelco 周一提议，2022年按较期货溢价/升水128美元的价格向欧洲客户供应铜。这意味着，即便是经济增长面临逆风之际，全球头号铜矿公司仍然预计强劲的需求将延续下去。该公司将年度铜溢价提高30美元/吨，较欧洲最大铜矿生产商/全球最大铜回收公司Aurubis宣布的溢价高出5美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174188289\" target=\"_blank\">马斯克再度杠上贝索斯：你只是全球第二富翁</a></p>\n<p>随着全球首富再度出现交替，马斯克和贝索斯这对在太空领域激烈竞争的对手再度摩擦出了火花。当地时间周一，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TSLA\">特斯拉</a>创始人转发了一条贝索斯的社交媒体，内容仅有一个“银牌”的表情包，这也被广泛解读为马斯克重回全球首富位置后的宣言。根据彭博实时亿万富翁数据，随着SpaceX估值在上周飙升，马斯克的身价已经达到2220亿美元，与贝索斯拉开了300亿美元的差距。</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" 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style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">老虎资讯综合 </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-10-12 07:57</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<blockquote>\n 摘要：①周一美股三大指数集体收跌，道指跌0.72%，纳指跌0.64%，标普500指数跌0.69%；②美国WTI原油收高1.5%，7年来首次站上80美元；③土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。\n</blockquote>\n<p>1、美三大指数集体收跌 道指跌0.72%</p>\n<p>美股周一承压冲高回落，三大指数集体收跌。交易员关注能源价格飙升和即将开始的美股财报季节。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GS\">高盛</a>下调美国今明两年经济增长预期，并预测美联储不急于上调利率。截至收盘，道琼斯指数跌0.72%，纳斯达克指数跌0.64%，标普500指数跌0.69%。</p>\n<p>2、热门中概股周一收盘涨跌互现 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEKE\">贝壳</a>涨近6%</p>\n<p>热门中概股周一收盘涨跌互现，贝壳涨近6%，针对上海研发团队裁员的传闻，贝壳找房回应称，对上海<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/RF\">地区金融</a>等部分业务进行调整，涉及到的员工将严格遵守国家劳动法等相关法律法规进行妥善安排。</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOTU\">高途</a>涨超19%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EDU\">新东方</a>涨超4%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TAL\">好未来</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IQ\">爱奇艺</a>涨超2%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BABA\">阿里巴巴</a>涨超1%。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/OG\">洋葱集团</a>跌超17%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BEST\">百世集团</a>跌超11%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PDD\">拼多多</a>跌超1%，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JD\">京东</a>、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LI\">理想汽车</a>跌近1%。</p>\n<p>3、欧股收盘涨跌不一 <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VUKE.UK\">英国富时100</a>指数涨0.72%</p>\n<p>因围绕通胀和即将到来的财报季的紧张情绪抵消了支撑石油和矿业股的大宗商品价格飙升。最终，欧股收盘涨跌不一，德国DAX指数跌0.05%报15199.14点，法国CAC40指数涨0.16%报6570.54点，英国<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/.100.UK\">富时100指数</a>涨0.72%报7146.85点。</p>\n<p>4、美国WTI原油收高1.5% 7年来首次站上80美元</p>\n<p>全球能源危机持续，提振了原油需求。最终，纽约商品交易所11月交割的原油期货价格上涨1.17美元，涨幅1.5%，收于每桶80.52美元。这是近月WTI原油合约自2014年10月31日以来首次收在80美元之上。</p>\n<p>5、黄金期货周一收跌0.1% 连续第三个交易日下滑</p>\n<p>周一，纽约商品交易所12月交割的黄金期货价格下跌1.70美元，跌幅0.1%，录得连续第三个交易日下跌，收于每盎司1755.70美元，创9月29日以来最低收盘价。</p>\n<p>6、土耳其里拉贬值再创历史新低 对美元汇率跌破9</p>\n<p>当地时间10月11日，土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。当天，土耳其央行行长沙哈普·卡夫奇奥卢在大国民议会表示，“汇率和利率没有关联”，目前土耳其利率处于预期水平。</p>\n<p>国际宏观</p>\n<p>1、高盛首席经济学家Hatzius预计美联储明年不会加息</p>\n<p>高盛集团首席经济学家认为，明年美国经济增速放缓将意味着美联储不急于上调利率。Jan Hatzius周一表示，虽然预计美联储会在下次会议宣布缩减资产购买规模，但过程将耗费数月，而利率在2023年前不会上调。</p>\n<p>2、美国通胀预期指标逼近7年高点 美联储或失去对物价压力掌控</p>\n<p>5y5y远期盈亏平衡通胀率接近约七年来最高水平，这是该指数近几个月来第二次发出类似警示。 5月份，类似的上涨促使前 美联储理事会货币和金融市场分析主管Brian Sack加入其他官员行列，警告 美联储有必要发出政策调整信号</p>\n<p>3、美国原油价格达到每桶80美元 或加剧通货膨胀</p>\n<p>美国汽油协会(AAA)的数据显示，11日美国汽油平均价格创下7年来的新高，达到每加仑3.27美元，仅过去一周就上涨了7美分。自2020年4月触底至每加仑1.77美元以来，汽油价格几乎翻了一番。自新冠肺炎疫情暴发以来，人们的出行需求大幅下降，油价也大幅降低。而今年随着美国人的出行需求恢复，汽油供不应求，造成了美国的油价持续上涨。</p>\n<p>CNN在报道中写道，高油价会加剧通货膨胀，而全球目前面临的能源危机很可能会继续推高汽油价格。</p>\n<p>4、世卫组织建议为免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗</p>\n<p>当地时间11日，世卫组织免疫战略咨询专家组举行发布会，专家组建议为中度和重度免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗，因为该群体在接种标准疫苗剂量后，不太可能产生足够的免疫反应，且为新冠肺炎重症的高风险人群。</p>\n<p>5、世行：2020年低收入国家债务增长12%至8600亿美元 创纪录新高</p>\n<p>世界银行在周一发布的一份报告中表示，随着各国以大规模的财政、货币和金融刺激计划应对新冠疫情危机，2020年全球低收入国家的债务负担增加了12%，达到创纪录的8600亿美元。</p>\n<p>6、越南上百万工人逃离工厂，全球产业链又遭重创，iPhone13也受影响</p>\n<p>据报道，由于越南政府解除了胡志明与周围地区的防疫封城措施，工人开始逃离新冠疫情严重的南部工业区，返回乡下。越南政府估计，可能有超过200万人离开。除了球鞋、衣服等，工厂停工也可能影响到<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>之类的科技公司。分析师表示，零件供应商关厂还可能使得苹果遭遇iPhone13交货中断。据此前英国金融时报援引知情人士透露，此次供货中断主要与四款 iPhone 13 机型的相机模块供应受限有关，因为其大量零部件在越南组装。</p>\n<p>7、G7拟定央行数字货币首个原则草案</p>\n<p>外交消息人士透露，日美欧七国集团（G7）财长和央行行长已拟定<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CNBC\">中央银行</a>数字货币（CBDC）相关的首个共同原则草案，13日在美国首都华盛顿召开的G7财长和央行行长会议上将正式批准。对于数字货币的发行国，要求对处理个人信息等“保持透明度和尽到说明责任”。</p>\n<p>8、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/JPM\">摩根大通</a>CEO：比特币“一文不值”</p>\n<p>当地时间周一的一次会议上，摩根大通CEO杰米·戴蒙表示，区块链是真实的，稳定币也可以是真实的，从政府层面监管加密数字货币将是一种现实。但他个人认为，比特币并没有什么价值。</p>\n<p>公司新闻</p>\n<p>1、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174970314\" target=\"_blank\">拒绝“中国制造”特斯拉，印度何以“强硬”要求马斯克“二选一”</a></p>\n<p>据彭博社10月10日报道，印度公路交通和运输部部长加德卡里明确表示，特斯拉想要进入印度市场，就不得在印度销售中国制造的汽车。</p>\n<p>加德卡里对媒体表示，特斯拉应该“在印度本地制造、销售汽车并向全球出口”，而印度政府将为特斯拉提供一切必要的支持。“我已经告诉特斯拉，不要在印度销售你们公司在中国生产的电动汽车。”</p>\n<p>2、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174390339\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix 将在沃尔玛网站开专区：销售《鱿鱼游戏》等周边</a></p>\n<p>据华尔街日报报道，美国流媒体巨头Netflix称，Netflix 将与沃尔玛合作，在该零售商的网站上创建一个数字店面。该店铺将销售与《怪奇物语》 和《鱿鱼游戏》等热门节目相关的商品。</p>\n<p>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174185613\" target=\"_blank\">通胀是暂时的？食品巨头卡夫亨氏警告消费者适应高价产品</a></p>\n<p>联合国粮食署近期表示，受谷物和植物油上涨的推动，9月份世界粮食价格连续第二个月上涨，9月平均为 130.0 点，同比增加32.8%，达到10年来的最高点。BBC 新闻采访了卡夫亨氏的欧洲老板 Miguel Patricio 时，他警告消费者必须适应更高的食品价格。他说：“我们正在全球范围内在必要时提高价格。”</p>\n<p>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174329185\" target=\"_blank\">“门口的野蛮人”、华尔街传奇私募股权基金KKR完成掌门人更替</a></p>\n<p>当地时间周一早晨，全球私募股权投资巨头科尔伯格-克拉维斯-罗伯茨宣布完成管理层接班，49岁的Joe Bae和48岁的Scott Nuttall出任联席CEO，78和79岁的公司创始人亨利·克拉维斯和乔治罗伯茨将退居二线担任联席执行董事长，仍将参与公司的管理事务。</p>\n<p>5、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174081188\" target=\"_blank\">铜涨价预期强烈！智利国家铜业公司上调欧洲铜溢价31%</a></p>\n<p>智利国家铜业公司 Codelco 周一提议，2022年按较期货溢价/升水128美元的价格向欧洲客户供应铜。这意味着，即便是经济增长面临逆风之际，全球头号铜矿公司仍然预计强劲的需求将延续下去。该公司将年度铜溢价提高30美元/吨，较欧洲最大铜矿生产商/全球最大铜回收公司Aurubis宣布的溢价高出5美元。</p>\n<p>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2174188289\" target=\"_blank\">马斯克再度杠上贝索斯：你只是全球第二富翁</a></p>\n<p>随着全球首富再度出现交替，马斯克和贝索斯这对在太空领域激烈竞争的对手再度摩擦出了火花。当地时间周一，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TSLA\">特斯拉</a>创始人转发了一条贝索斯的社交媒体，内容仅有一个“银牌”的表情包，这也被广泛解读为马斯克重回全球首富位置后的宣言。根据彭博实时亿万富翁数据，随着SpaceX估值在上周飙升，马斯克的身价已经达到2220亿美元，与贝索斯拉开了300亿美元的差距。</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b23574aac95526c9e5c62ebc8dd25130","relate_stocks":{"DDG":"ProShares做空石油与天然气ETF",".DJI":"道琼斯","DUG":"二倍做空石油与天然气ETF(ProShares)","UCO":"二倍做多彭博原油ETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","USO":"美国原油ETF",".SPX":"S&P 500 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连续第三个交易日下滑\n周一，纽约商品交易所12月交割的黄金期货价格下跌1.70美元，跌幅0.1%，录得连续第三个交易日下跌，收于每盎司1755.70美元，创9月29日以来最低收盘价。\n6、土耳其里拉贬值再创历史新低 对美元汇率跌破9\n当地时间10月11日，土耳其里拉对美元汇率跌破9，达到9.01，再创历史新低。当天，土耳其央行行长沙哈普·卡夫奇奥卢在大国民议会表示，“汇率和利率没有关联”，目前土耳其利率处于预期水平。\n国际宏观\n1、高盛首席经济学家Hatzius预计美联储明年不会加息\n高盛集团首席经济学家认为，明年美国经济增速放缓将意味着美联储不急于上调利率。Jan Hatzius周一表示，虽然预计美联储会在下次会议宣布缩减资产购买规模，但过程将耗费数月，而利率在2023年前不会上调。\n2、美国通胀预期指标逼近7年高点 美联储或失去对物价压力掌控\n5y5y远期盈亏平衡通胀率接近约七年来最高水平，这是该指数近几个月来第二次发出类似警示。 5月份，类似的上涨促使前 美联储理事会货币和金融市场分析主管Brian Sack加入其他官员行列，警告 美联储有必要发出政策调整信号\n3、美国原油价格达到每桶80美元 或加剧通货膨胀\n美国汽油协会(AAA)的数据显示，11日美国汽油平均价格创下7年来的新高，达到每加仑3.27美元，仅过去一周就上涨了7美分。自2020年4月触底至每加仑1.77美元以来，汽油价格几乎翻了一番。自新冠肺炎疫情暴发以来，人们的出行需求大幅下降，油价也大幅降低。而今年随着美国人的出行需求恢复，汽油供不应求，造成了美国的油价持续上涨。\nCNN在报道中写道，高油价会加剧通货膨胀，而全球目前面临的能源危机很可能会继续推高汽油价格。\n4、世卫组织建议为免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗\n当地时间11日，世卫组织免疫战略咨询专家组举行发布会，专家组建议为中度和重度免疫功能低下者提供额外剂量的新冠疫苗，因为该群体在接种标准疫苗剂量后，不太可能产生足够的免疫反应，且为新冠肺炎重症的高风险人群。\n5、世行：2020年低收入国家债务增长12%至8600亿美元 创纪录新高\n世界银行在周一发布的一份报告中表示，随着各国以大规模的财政、货币和金融刺激计划应对新冠疫情危机，2020年全球低收入国家的债务负担增加了12%，达到创纪录的8600亿美元。\n6、越南上百万工人逃离工厂，全球产业链又遭重创，iPhone13也受影响\n据报道，由于越南政府解除了胡志明与周围地区的防疫封城措施，工人开始逃离新冠疫情严重的南部工业区，返回乡下。越南政府估计，可能有超过200万人离开。除了球鞋、衣服等，工厂停工也可能影响到苹果之类的科技公司。分析师表示，零件供应商关厂还可能使得苹果遭遇iPhone13交货中断。据此前英国金融时报援引知情人士透露，此次供货中断主要与四款 iPhone 13 机型的相机模块供应受限有关，因为其大量零部件在越南组装。\n7、G7拟定央行数字货币首个原则草案\n外交消息人士透露，日美欧七国集团（G7）财长和央行行长已拟定中央银行数字货币（CBDC）相关的首个共同原则草案，13日在美国首都华盛顿召开的G7财长和央行行长会议上将正式批准。对于数字货币的发行国，要求对处理个人信息等“保持透明度和尽到说明责任”。\n8、摩根大通CEO：比特币“一文不值”\n当地时间周一的一次会议上，摩根大通CEO杰米·戴蒙表示，区块链是真实的，稳定币也可以是真实的，从政府层面监管加密数字货币将是一种现实。但他个人认为，比特币并没有什么价值。\n公司新闻\n1、拒绝“中国制造”特斯拉，印度何以“强硬”要求马斯克“二选一”\n据彭博社10月10日报道，印度公路交通和运输部部长加德卡里明确表示，特斯拉想要进入印度市场，就不得在印度销售中国制造的汽车。\n加德卡里对媒体表示，特斯拉应该“在印度本地制造、销售汽车并向全球出口”，而印度政府将为特斯拉提供一切必要的支持。“我已经告诉特斯拉，不要在印度销售你们公司在中国生产的电动汽车。”\n2、Netflix 将在沃尔玛网站开专区：销售《鱿鱼游戏》等周边\n据华尔街日报报道，美国流媒体巨头Netflix称，Netflix 将与沃尔玛合作，在该零售商的网站上创建一个数字店面。该店铺将销售与《怪奇物语》 和《鱿鱼游戏》等热门节目相关的商品。\n3、通胀是暂时的？食品巨头卡夫亨氏警告消费者适应高价产品\n联合国粮食署近期表示，受谷物和植物油上涨的推动，9月份世界粮食价格连续第二个月上涨，9月平均为 130.0 点，同比增加32.8%，达到10年来的最高点。BBC 新闻采访了卡夫亨氏的欧洲老板 Miguel Patricio 时，他警告消费者必须适应更高的食品价格。他说：“我们正在全球范围内在必要时提高价格。”\n4、“门口的野蛮人”、华尔街传奇私募股权基金KKR完成掌门人更替\n当地时间周一早晨，全球私募股权投资巨头科尔伯格-克拉维斯-罗伯茨宣布完成管理层接班，49岁的Joe Bae和48岁的Scott Nuttall出任联席CEO，78和79岁的公司创始人亨利·克拉维斯和乔治罗伯茨将退居二线担任联席执行董事长，仍将参与公司的管理事务。\n5、铜涨价预期强烈！智利国家铜业公司上调欧洲铜溢价31%\n智利国家铜业公司 Codelco 周一提议，2022年按较期货溢价/升水128美元的价格向欧洲客户供应铜。这意味着，即便是经济增长面临逆风之际，全球头号铜矿公司仍然预计强劲的需求将延续下去。该公司将年度铜溢价提高30美元/吨，较欧洲最大铜矿生产商/全球最大铜回收公司Aurubis宣布的溢价高出5美元。\n6、马斯克再度杠上贝索斯：你只是全球第二富翁\n随着全球首富再度出现交替，马斯克和贝索斯这对在太空领域激烈竞争的对手再度摩擦出了火花。当地时间周一，特斯拉创始人转发了一条贝索斯的社交媒体，内容仅有一个“银牌”的表情包，这也被广泛解读为马斯克重回全球首富位置后的宣言。根据彭博实时亿万富翁数据，随着SpaceX估值在上周飙升，马斯克的身价已经达到2220亿美元，与贝索斯拉开了300亿美元的差距。","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":251,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":696809045,"gmtCreate":1640656550806,"gmtModify":1640656804358,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Yes","listText":"Yes","text":"Yes","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/696809045","repostId":"1108303862","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":605,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":845869906,"gmtCreate":1636329008615,"gmtModify":1636329008742,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/845869906","repostId":"2181723511","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2181723511","pubTimestamp":1636321200,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2181723511?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-08 05:40","market":"hk","language":"zh","title":"外媒头条：伯克希尔业绩大降！巴菲特持有现金再创新高","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2181723511","media":"新浪财经","summary":"全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：\n\n1、美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手\n\n\n2、沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬\n\n\n3、伯克希尔三季度业绩","content":"<p><b>全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：</b></p>\n<blockquote>\n <b>1、美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>2、沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">伯克希尔</a>三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CS\">瑞士信贷</a>将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>5、大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>6、美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？</b>\n</blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/faf0308efebc113101bff15ad31bd5ec\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"366\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手</b></p>\n<p>当地时间周五（11月5日），美国参议院司法委员会反垄断小组主席、民主党参议员Amy Klobuchar的办公室表示，Klobuchar和共和党参议员Tom Cotton提出了一项针对<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>和Facebook等大型科技公司的法案。</p>\n<p>该法案将使政府更容易阻止其认为违反反垄断法的交易，法案要求这些科技公司需要向法官证明其进行的收购交易有利于竞争，因此是合法的。</p>\n<p>“我们看到越来越多的公司选择收购竞争对手，而不是与其竞争。”参议员Klobuchar在一份声明中表示，“这项两党立法将使占主导地位的数字平台更难消除竞争对手，并增强平台的市场影响力，从而终结这些反竞争收购。”</p>\n<p>其他提出的法案试图控制科技公司过大的市场力量，包括像<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>这样的行业领袖。到目前为止，没有一项成为法律，尽管参议院通过了一项将增加反垄断执法人员资源的法律。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/35b363ef27cd5bd0b7c40db27e78638a\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"366\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬</b></p>\n<p>全球最大独立石油交易商Vitol称，沙特阿拉伯调高油价的幅度高于预期，这反映该国很可能将继续抵制美国要求其增产的压力。</p>\n<p>OPEC+上周四（11月4日）决定维持12月减产收缩幅度40万桶不变后，沙特阿美在上周五调高12月付运予亚洲、美国与欧洲客户的官方售价（OSP）差额。</p>\n<p>Vitol亚洲主管Mike Muller表示，虽然调升幅度不是很大，但也高于市场估计，而且亚洲OSP已经升至本世纪第三高，这反映出沙特阿美猜测OPEC+将不会大幅度增产。</p>\n<p>在OPEC+会议后，沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒表示，欧佩克保持了石油市场比天然气和煤炭市场更加平衡。由于供应紧张，欧洲部分地区这两种燃料的价格近几个月飙升至创纪录水平。</p>\n<p>自6月底以来，欧洲的天然气期货价格上涨了一倍多，煤炭价格上涨了25%。相比之下，布伦特原油价格上涨了10%。</p>\n<p>“石油不是问题所在，”阿卜杜勒表示，“问题是能源综合体正在经历浩劫和地狱。”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/699f5e49a5510a2fdedb539cc79d3dc6\" tg-width=\"501\" tg-height=\"297\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">伯克希尔</a>三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备</b></p>\n<p>当地时间周六（11月6日）早晨，伯克希尔哈撒韦披露最新财报，公司表示全球供应链的中断限制了其创收能力，而公平成本的上升则促使该公司进行回购，增加资金储备。</p>\n<p>根据公司披露，Q3总共实现营收705亿美元，去年同期为630亿美元，市场预期742亿美元。实现归属于公司股东的净利润103.44亿美元，同比下降65.68%；截至三季度末，其现金储备达到创纪录的1492亿美元。</p>\n<p>伯克希尔三季度的保险业务亏损大幅扩大。由于伯克希尔旗下的保险公司受到了包括飓风艾达在内的风暴冲击，该业务的承保损失在第三季度扩大到7.84亿美元，较去年同期2.13亿美元的损失大幅扩大，其三大保险集团都报告了承保损失。</p>\n<p>财报显示，第三季度的现金储备达到1492亿美元的新高，超过2020年初创下的纪录高点。尽管在此期间，巴菲特还投入76亿美元回购本公司股票，创出2018年董事会调整回购政策以来纪录第三高水平。</p>\n<p>巴菲特一直面临着伯克希尔钱太多但可供投资的高回报率资产欠缺的问题。由于最近几个季度没有重大交易，这位伯克希尔首席执行官经常将回购作为用掉现金的一种方式。但即便是第三季度的回购水平上升，仍不足以阻止伯克希尔的资金量膨胀。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/251e4aa32dcaa97605494ba2d2f280e5\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"352\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CS\">瑞士信贷</a>将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理</b></p>\n<p>瑞士信贷集团上周四宣布，将退出主经纪商业务，并将重心从投行转向财富管理。Archegos爆仓事件后，瑞士信贷新任董事长希望降低公司的风险敞口。</p>\n<p>António Horta-Osório是瑞信的新任董事长，他周四（11月4日）公布第三季度强劲业绩的同时还披露了他的战略。他告诉分析师，“没有速效的解决办法，还有很多工作要做”。Horta-Osório称将限制其投资银行家，并将资金投入财富管理领域。瑞信正努力遏制放任自流的文化，这种文化已使其在一系列丑闻中损失了数十亿美元。</p>\n<p>Horta-Osório计划对瑞士信贷集团实施改革，Horta-Osório将调整一些资本配置和报告关系，但他的主要目标是强化瑞信的风险文化，同时保持其创业精神。</p>\n<p>Horta-Osório对瑞士报纸表示，瑞信的大股东支持其新策略，并表示瑞信还将改革高管薪酬体系，以降低风险。</p>\n<p>根据Refinitiv的数据，瑞信最大的股东Harris Associates持有4.9%的股份。Harris Associates也在周日发表的另一篇采访中支持这一策略。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37fdff570a6105619fb0c13aaa52beb3\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"303\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资</b></p>\n<p>美国部分大型科技股估计在业绩公布后不断上升，相关龙头的股价在今年升幅相当厉害，有分析师建议投资者考虑多元化，转持其它落后大市的公司。</p>\n<p>一些投资者担心，科技龙头的估值处于极高水平。以<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">谷歌</a>母公司Alphabet为例，其股价相当于26.6倍预期市盈率，远高于标普500指数的21.1倍；<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>股价相当于26.2倍预期市盈率。信息技术板块相当于26.4倍预期市盈率。</p>\n<p>Natixis Investment Managers Solutions的投资组合策略师Garret Melson认为，大型科技股公司短期将有调整压力，因为基金经理获利回吐的诱因高，而且可能把资金转至其他更具上升潜力的行业。Melson认为金融和能源等能从经济增长中受益的行业，年底前可能会挑战大型科技股。</p>\n<p>同样看好能源与分析行业的还有DataTrek，该行分析师认为这两个行业截止年底的回报将可与科技股看齐。“科技股很可能保持稳健增长，但在投资者可考虑组合多元化，寻找对经济基本面改善有更多敞口的行业。”</p>\n<p>Janus Henderson投资组合经理兼科技板块主管Denny Fish表示，科技股偏高，<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QCOM\">高通</a>胀并不利于该类公司，因此已经调整组合，转持那些将从巨头成长中获益的小型公司。Fish看好澳大利亚软件开发公司Atlassian $PLC(<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/PLC\">PLC</a>)$的股票，该公司的产品管理工具“增强”了<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">微软</a>的应用程序套件，以及加拿大电子商务公司<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SHOP\">Shopify Inc</a>的股票，该公司受益于<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">亚马逊</a>的增长。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/567d6fd3c74d4342c28ae73668e117ab\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"328\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？</b></p>\n<p>上周五，美国众议院以228票对206票获得通过了一项超过1万亿美元的跨党派基础设施法案，接下来法案将提交给拜登签署，成为民主党政府自春季批准1.9万亿美元的救助计划以来最重要立法成就。</p>\n<p>本周，在数据方面，通胀将成为焦点。周三，美国劳工统计局将公布美国10月份消费者价格指数（CPI），预计CPI数据会再次加速增长，结束持续的温和增长，并加剧人们对高通胀持续时间将超过预期的担忧。</p>\n<p>华尔街经济学家预测，CPI预计将较去年同期上涨5.8%。这比9月份的5.4%有所改善，是自1990年以来的最高水平。</p>\n<p>彭博一致预测显示，物价环比上涨0.6%。在8月和9月之间，上涨了0.4%。</p>\n<p>如果不包括食品和能源等波动较大的大宗商品，预计10月份的价格涨幅将较为温和，但仍将保持高位。核心CPI预计将从9月份的4%上升至4.3%。预计比前一个月增长0.4%，是前一个月的两倍。</p>","source":"sina","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>外媒头条：伯克希尔业绩大降！巴菲特持有现金再创新高</title>\n<style 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分析师建议分散投资\n\n\n6、美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-11-08/doc-iktzscyy4241168.shtml\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ee8356647b06585ac937a0f45e6aeb17","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B",".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-11-08/doc-iktzscyy4241168.shtml","is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/b0d1b7e8843deea78cc308b15114de44","article_id":"2181723511","content_text":"全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：\n\n1、美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手\n\n\n2、沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬\n\n\n3、伯克希尔三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备\n\n\n4、瑞士信贷将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理\n\n\n5、大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资\n\n\n6、美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？\n\n\n美参议员提出法案 拟限制科技巨头收购竞争对手\n当地时间周五（11月5日），美国参议院司法委员会反垄断小组主席、民主党参议员Amy Klobuchar的办公室表示，Klobuchar和共和党参议员Tom Cotton提出了一项针对谷歌和Facebook等大型科技公司的法案。\n该法案将使政府更容易阻止其认为违反反垄断法的交易，法案要求这些科技公司需要向法官证明其进行的收购交易有利于竞争，因此是合法的。\n“我们看到越来越多的公司选择收购竞争对手，而不是与其竞争。”参议员Klobuchar在一份声明中表示，“这项两党立法将使占主导地位的数字平台更难消除竞争对手，并增强平台的市场影响力，从而终结这些反竞争收购。”\n其他提出的法案试图控制科技公司过大的市场力量，包括像苹果这样的行业领袖。到目前为止，没有一项成为法律，尽管参议院通过了一项将增加反垄断执法人员资源的法律。\n\n沙特阿拉伯超预期上调油价 此前OPEC+对美国的增产呼吁不予理睬\n全球最大独立石油交易商Vitol称，沙特阿拉伯调高油价的幅度高于预期，这反映该国很可能将继续抵制美国要求其增产的压力。\nOPEC+上周四（11月4日）决定维持12月减产收缩幅度40万桶不变后，沙特阿美在上周五调高12月付运予亚洲、美国与欧洲客户的官方售价（OSP）差额。\nVitol亚洲主管Mike Muller表示，虽然调升幅度不是很大，但也高于市场估计，而且亚洲OSP已经升至本世纪第三高，这反映出沙特阿美猜测OPEC+将不会大幅度增产。\n在OPEC+会议后，沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒表示，欧佩克保持了石油市场比天然气和煤炭市场更加平衡。由于供应紧张，欧洲部分地区这两种燃料的价格近几个月飙升至创纪录水平。\n自6月底以来，欧洲的天然气期货价格上涨了一倍多，煤炭价格上涨了25%。相比之下，布伦特原油价格上涨了10%。\n“石油不是问题所在，”阿卜杜勒表示，“问题是能源综合体正在经历浩劫和地狱。”\n\n伯克希尔三季度业绩大降逾六成 巴菲特手握1492亿美元现金储备\n当地时间周六（11月6日）早晨，伯克希尔哈撒韦披露最新财报，公司表示全球供应链的中断限制了其创收能力，而公平成本的上升则促使该公司进行回购，增加资金储备。\n根据公司披露，Q3总共实现营收705亿美元，去年同期为630亿美元，市场预期742亿美元。实现归属于公司股东的净利润103.44亿美元，同比下降65.68%；截至三季度末，其现金储备达到创纪录的1492亿美元。\n伯克希尔三季度的保险业务亏损大幅扩大。由于伯克希尔旗下的保险公司受到了包括飓风艾达在内的风暴冲击，该业务的承保损失在第三季度扩大到7.84亿美元，较去年同期2.13亿美元的损失大幅扩大，其三大保险集团都报告了承保损失。\n财报显示，第三季度的现金储备达到1492亿美元的新高，超过2020年初创下的纪录高点。尽管在此期间，巴菲特还投入76亿美元回购本公司股票，创出2018年董事会调整回购政策以来纪录第三高水平。\n巴菲特一直面临着伯克希尔钱太多但可供投资的高回报率资产欠缺的问题。由于最近几个季度没有重大交易，这位伯克希尔首席执行官经常将回购作为用掉现金的一种方式。但即便是第三季度的回购水平上升，仍不足以阻止伯克希尔的资金量膨胀。\n\n瑞士信贷将退出主经纪商业务 重心转向财富管理\n瑞士信贷集团上周四宣布，将退出主经纪商业务，并将重心从投行转向财富管理。Archegos爆仓事件后，瑞士信贷新任董事长希望降低公司的风险敞口。\nAntónio Horta-Osório是瑞信的新任董事长，他周四（11月4日）公布第三季度强劲业绩的同时还披露了他的战略。他告诉分析师，“没有速效的解决办法，还有很多工作要做”。Horta-Osório称将限制其投资银行家，并将资金投入财富管理领域。瑞信正努力遏制放任自流的文化，这种文化已使其在一系列丑闻中损失了数十亿美元。\nHorta-Osório计划对瑞士信贷集团实施改革，Horta-Osório将调整一些资本配置和报告关系，但他的主要目标是强化瑞信的风险文化，同时保持其创业精神。\nHorta-Osório对瑞士报纸表示，瑞信的大股东支持其新策略，并表示瑞信还将改革高管薪酬体系，以降低风险。\n根据Refinitiv的数据，瑞信最大的股东Harris Associates持有4.9%的股份。Harris Associates也在周日发表的另一篇采访中支持这一策略。\n\n大型科技股公司估值过高 分析师建议分散投资\n美国部分大型科技股估计在业绩公布后不断上升，相关龙头的股价在今年升幅相当厉害，有分析师建议投资者考虑多元化，转持其它落后大市的公司。\n一些投资者担心，科技龙头的估值处于极高水平。以谷歌母公司Alphabet为例，其股价相当于26.6倍预期市盈率，远高于标普500指数的21.1倍；苹果股价相当于26.2倍预期市盈率。信息技术板块相当于26.4倍预期市盈率。\nNatixis Investment Managers Solutions的投资组合策略师Garret Melson认为，大型科技股公司短期将有调整压力，因为基金经理获利回吐的诱因高，而且可能把资金转至其他更具上升潜力的行业。Melson认为金融和能源等能从经济增长中受益的行业，年底前可能会挑战大型科技股。\n同样看好能源与分析行业的还有DataTrek，该行分析师认为这两个行业截止年底的回报将可与科技股看齐。“科技股很可能保持稳健增长，但在投资者可考虑组合多元化，寻找对经济基本面改善有更多敞口的行业。”\nJanus Henderson投资组合经理兼科技板块主管Denny Fish表示，科技股偏高，高通胀并不利于该类公司，因此已经调整组合，转持那些将从巨头成长中获益的小型公司。Fish看好澳大利亚软件开发公司Atlassian $PLC(PLC)$的股票，该公司的产品管理工具“增强”了微软的应用程序套件，以及加拿大电子商务公司Shopify Inc的股票，该公司受益于亚马逊的增长。\n\n美国消费价格涨幅会达到1990年以来的最高水平吗？\n上周五，美国众议院以228票对206票获得通过了一项超过1万亿美元的跨党派基础设施法案，接下来法案将提交给拜登签署，成为民主党政府自春季批准1.9万亿美元的救助计划以来最重要立法成就。\n本周，在数据方面，通胀将成为焦点。周三，美国劳工统计局将公布美国10月份消费者价格指数（CPI），预计CPI数据会再次加速增长，结束持续的温和增长，并加剧人们对高通胀持续时间将超过预期的担忧。\n华尔街经济学家预测，CPI预计将较去年同期上涨5.8%。这比9月份的5.4%有所改善，是自1990年以来的最高水平。\n彭博一致预测显示，物价环比上涨0.6%。在8月和9月之间，上涨了0.4%。\n如果不包括食品和能源等波动较大的大宗商品，预计10月份的价格涨幅将较为温和，但仍将保持高位。核心CPI预计将从9月份的4%上升至4.3%。预计比前一个月增长0.4%，是前一个月的两倍。","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":450,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":865877369,"gmtCreate":1632971423455,"gmtModify":1632971423724,"author":{"id":"4090372448888540","authorId":"4090372448888540","name":"winfredcth","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c465570918f25ab6c6a51f818aeceaf0","crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Pain is coming","listText":"Pain is coming","text":"Pain is coming","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/865877369","repostId":"2171331319","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2171331319","pubTimestamp":1632950640,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2171331319?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-30 05:24","market":"hk","language":"zh","title":"外媒头条：高通胀没完！鲍威尔称供应瓶颈是元凶","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2171331319","media":"新浪财经","summary":"全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：\n\n1、鲍威尔：供应链问题仍未好转 预计通胀将持续到明年\n\n\n2、美国国会预算办公室：避免联邦违约的现金和特别措施可能10月底用尽\n\n\n3、波音获得美国国","content":"<p><b>全球财经媒体昨夜今晨共同关注的头条新闻主要有：</b></p>\n<blockquote>\n <b>1、鲍威尔：供应链问题仍未好转 预计通胀将持续到明年</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>2、美国国会预算办公室：避免联邦违约的现金和特别措施可能10月底用尽</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>3、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BA\">波音</a>获得美国国防部238亿美元的后续合同</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>4、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>CEO库克获255万股股票奖励 价值3.68亿美元</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>5、英镑坐上过山车 策略师担忧该货币将变得真正不可预测</b>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n <b>6、<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/C\">花旗</a>多数机构客户担忧持续性通胀 料美股存在回调风险</b>\n</blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/26decaa36486b62ad3dffd1a43f1efc3\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"373\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>鲍威尔：供应链问题仍未好转 预计通胀将持续到明年</b></p>\n<p>美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔表示，供应链问题仍未好转，预计将持续到明年。这种情况可能持续到明年，通胀的持续时间将超过预期。</p>\n<p>随着经济从疫情中恢复，当前美国通胀率上升与经济重新开放有关，未来不会出现持续性的<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QCOM\">高通</a>胀。</p>\n<p>鲍威尔周三在欧洲央行主办的一个会议上表示，“一段时间以来，我们和其他人一直预测，当前的通胀飙升不会导致一个新的通胀机制，通胀率不会每年都保持高位”。</p>\n<p>鲍威尔称，“眼下通胀率大增实际上是需求非常强劲而供应链受到制约的结果，这一切都与经济重新开放有关，这是一个过程，有开始，有中间和结束。很难讲这个过程的影响有多大或持续多久，但我们会恢复，会度过难关。”</p>\n<p>欧洲央行、日本央行、英国央行行长也出席了小组讨论会，他们对于导致全球经济受影响的供应链中断表示谨慎乐观，并认为通胀压力升高最终不会持久。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bba4fa79eb7148d34f6efc10c69f959d\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"366\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>美国国会预算办公室：避免联邦违约的现金和特别措施可能10月底用尽</b></p>\n<p>美国国会预算办公室称，财政部可能最早10月底就将触及发债限制，向迟迟解决不了债务上限问题的国会议员发出了最新警告。</p>\n<p>跨党派的国会预算办公室周三在报告中称，除非提高或暂停债务上限，否则财政部将在10月末或11月初耗尽用来避免联邦违约的现金及特别措施。财长耶伦周二表示，财政部估计10月18日就将用完现金。</p>\n<p>债务上限两年暂停期已经于7月31日到期结束，为此财政部启动特别措施节省现金，包括暂停向几支联邦雇员退休基金投入新资金。</p>\n<p>一旦这些措施用尽，美国将陷入技术性违约，被迫延迟向债权人付款。耶伦周二表示这将是“灾难性的”，并可能导致“金融危机”和经济衰退。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f89be5234a9a02c75a9648d6c145cfa9\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"364\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BA\">波音</a>获得美国国防部238亿美元的后续合同</b></p>\n<p>波音公司表示，美国国防部已授予其价值238亿美元的后续合同，为C-17全球霸神III运输机机队提供为期10年的服务。</p>\n<p>波音公司表示，根据协议，波音将继续为美国空军和8个全球合作伙伴管理的275架飞机提供工程、现场支持和材料管理等服务。</p>\n<p>波音还表示，根据新协议，波音还将降低机队每飞行小时的运营成本。</p>\n<p>该公司表示，新协议目前的资金支持至2024年9月，第一阶段的合同金额为35亿美元。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d6749e2a102f55d5033353abd2a93a42\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"309\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">苹果</a>CEO库克获255万股股票奖励 价值3.68亿美元</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SINA\">新浪</a>科技讯 北京时间9月29日晚间消息，据报道，作为一项新奖励计划的一部分，苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）日前再获得250多万股公司股票，价值近3.68亿美元。</p>\n<p>去年9月，苹果向库克发放了股票和基于业绩的奖励：到2026年，库克将获得超过100万股苹果股票。</p>\n<p>上个月，库克获得了500多万苹果股票。当时，库克以超过7.5亿美元的价值将其出售。这些股票是库克10年前出任苹果CEO时，所获得的薪酬方案的最后一部分。</p>\n<p>为此，苹果公司在去年又向库克授予了一份新的薪酬方案，即到2026年，库克可获得超过100万股苹果股票，以激励库克在2025年（库克最早将于2025年退休）之前继续为公司效力。</p>\n<p>当地时间周二，苹果在提交给美国证券交易委员会（SEC）的文件中称，库克基于新的奖励计划获得了255万股苹果股票，价值约3.677亿美元。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8fb132fb6c4ec99997780c6b91eb17da\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"309\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>英镑坐上过山车 策略师担忧该货币将变得真正不可预测</b></p>\n<p>英镑跌至数月低点，策略师们又开始把它当作新兴市场一般讨论。</p>\n<p>加油站无油，杂货店商品短缺、通胀加速、加息威胁迫近，这些因素令市场观察人士愈发焦虑，他们认为英镑面临急剧下跌风险。英镑目前在1.344美元左右，为去年12月以来的最低水平，本月已下跌逾2％。</p>\n<p>野村国际的策略师Jordan Rochester表示，“宏观投资者担心英镑以后变成一个真正不可预测的市场，”</p>\n<p>RBC Europe的首席外汇策略师Adam Cole表示，英镑的极端波动说明它的表现更像是新兴市场货币，虽然这不是分析师第一次进行这种比较，但它仍然是一个有争议的对比。</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9614ca2ae3b8ecd65e5b8b338ebbc748\" tg-width=\"550\" tg-height=\"366\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/C\">花旗</a>多数机构客户担忧持续性通胀 料美股存在回调风险</b></p>\n<p>花旗对机构客户的调查显示，大多数投资者对持续性高通胀感到担忧，认为美股下跌20%的可能性大于上涨20%。</p>\n<p>根据本月对90多支养老基金，共同基金和对冲基金进行的调查，尽管多数人预期标普500指数明年会温和上涨，但物价压力和美联储的政策逆转对股指构成重大风险。</p>\n<p>接近60%的受访者正在为“持续性”通胀做准备，只有23%的受访者认为通胀是“暂时性”的。大多数机构预测美联储在2022年下半年或2023年上半年加息。</p>\n<p>这对于指望从股指走高中获利的投资者而言是一个担忧因素，对于债券持有人来说更是坏消息。随着美股下跌，美债收益率飙升，那些坚持传统的60/40股债配置策略的机构已经在本月遭遇近一年来最大损失。</p>","source":"sina","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" 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策略师担忧该货币将变得真正不可预测\n\n\n6、花旗多数机构客户担忧持续性通胀 料美股...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2021-09-30/doc-iktzscyx7149677.shtml\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/909f0c076f3fff78497a5c9be00e5429","relate_stocks":{"161125":"标普500","513500":"标普500ETF","QLD":"纳指两倍做多ETF","SSO":"两倍做多标普500ETF",".DJI":"道琼斯","QQQ":"纳指100ETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","SQQQ":"纳指三倍做空ETF","OEX":"标普100",".SPX":"S&P 500 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预计通胀将持续到明年\n美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔表示，供应链问题仍未好转，预计将持续到明年。这种情况可能持续到明年，通胀的持续时间将超过预期。\n随着经济从疫情中恢复，当前美国通胀率上升与经济重新开放有关，未来不会出现持续性的高通胀。\n鲍威尔周三在欧洲央行主办的一个会议上表示，“一段时间以来，我们和其他人一直预测，当前的通胀飙升不会导致一个新的通胀机制，通胀率不会每年都保持高位”。\n鲍威尔称，“眼下通胀率大增实际上是需求非常强劲而供应链受到制约的结果，这一切都与经济重新开放有关，这是一个过程，有开始，有中间和结束。很难讲这个过程的影响有多大或持续多久，但我们会恢复，会度过难关。”\n欧洲央行、日本央行、英国央行行长也出席了小组讨论会，他们对于导致全球经济受影响的供应链中断表示谨慎乐观，并认为通胀压力升高最终不会持久。\n\n美国国会预算办公室：避免联邦违约的现金和特别措施可能10月底用尽\n美国国会预算办公室称，财政部可能最早10月底就将触及发债限制，向迟迟解决不了债务上限问题的国会议员发出了最新警告。\n跨党派的国会预算办公室周三在报告中称，除非提高或暂停债务上限，否则财政部将在10月末或11月初耗尽用来避免联邦违约的现金及特别措施。财长耶伦周二表示，财政部估计10月18日就将用完现金。\n债务上限两年暂停期已经于7月31日到期结束，为此财政部启动特别措施节省现金，包括暂停向几支联邦雇员退休基金投入新资金。\n一旦这些措施用尽，美国将陷入技术性违约，被迫延迟向债权人付款。耶伦周二表示这将是“灾难性的”，并可能导致“金融危机”和经济衰退。\n\n波音获得美国国防部238亿美元的后续合同\n波音公司表示，美国国防部已授予其价值238亿美元的后续合同，为C-17全球霸神III运输机机队提供为期10年的服务。\n波音公司表示，根据协议，波音将继续为美国空军和8个全球合作伙伴管理的275架飞机提供工程、现场支持和材料管理等服务。\n波音还表示，根据新协议，波音还将降低机队每飞行小时的运营成本。\n该公司表示，新协议目前的资金支持至2024年9月，第一阶段的合同金额为35亿美元。\n\n苹果CEO库克获255万股股票奖励 价值3.68亿美元\n新浪科技讯 北京时间9月29日晚间消息，据报道，作为一项新奖励计划的一部分，苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）日前再获得250多万股公司股票，价值近3.68亿美元。\n去年9月，苹果向库克发放了股票和基于业绩的奖励：到2026年，库克将获得超过100万股苹果股票。\n上个月，库克获得了500多万苹果股票。当时，库克以超过7.5亿美元的价值将其出售。这些股票是库克10年前出任苹果CEO时，所获得的薪酬方案的最后一部分。\n为此，苹果公司在去年又向库克授予了一份新的薪酬方案，即到2026年，库克可获得超过100万股苹果股票，以激励库克在2025年（库克最早将于2025年退休）之前继续为公司效力。\n当地时间周二，苹果在提交给美国证券交易委员会（SEC）的文件中称，库克基于新的奖励计划获得了255万股苹果股票，价值约3.677亿美元。\n\n英镑坐上过山车 策略师担忧该货币将变得真正不可预测\n英镑跌至数月低点，策略师们又开始把它当作新兴市场一般讨论。\n加油站无油，杂货店商品短缺、通胀加速、加息威胁迫近，这些因素令市场观察人士愈发焦虑，他们认为英镑面临急剧下跌风险。英镑目前在1.344美元左右，为去年12月以来的最低水平，本月已下跌逾2％。\n野村国际的策略师Jordan Rochester表示，“宏观投资者担心英镑以后变成一个真正不可预测的市场，”\nRBC Europe的首席外汇策略师Adam Cole表示，英镑的极端波动说明它的表现更像是新兴市场货币，虽然这不是分析师第一次进行这种比较，但它仍然是一个有争议的对比。\n\n花旗多数机构客户担忧持续性通胀 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.</p><p>“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”</p><p><b>Read the full letter here：</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”</p><p>I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.</p><p>It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.</p><p>• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses he’s assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading “Our Four Giants” and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshire’s cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.“Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well,” the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cook’s stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone maker’s earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.“Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,” Buffett said in the letter. “That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.”Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshire’s equity portfolio.“It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our ‘share’ of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,” Buffett said.Berkshire is Apple’s largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.“BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,” Buffett said. “BHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.”Read the full letter here：To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 – K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that – on occasion – it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:• Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based “infrastructure” assets – classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment – than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshire’s balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.• Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between  government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period – a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge – indeed trumpet – the fact that Berkshire’s prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.• From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (“generally-accepted accounting principles”) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshire’s good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, “None.”I said, “Nobody’s perfect,” and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be – 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely – but far from assured – that Berkshire’s float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer – and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.• Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.• Apple – our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value – is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Apple’s 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Apple’s repurchases did the job.It’s important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports – and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our “share” of Apple’s earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Apple’s brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Tim’s managerial touch as well.• BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, America’s carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive “adjustments” to earnings – to use a polite description – have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.• BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. That’s up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHE’s record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokol’s and Greg Abel’s leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Greg’s report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable “green-washing” stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHE’s website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow let’s talk about companies we don’t control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshire’s two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the “equity” method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted “equity” accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilot’s earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshire’s balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 12 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% – and still is. Berkshire’s current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshire’s controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshire’s resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshire’s owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moody’s).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We don’t want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost of $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshire’s buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As we’ve discussed, insurance “float” of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of “float” per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% – going from $79,387 per “A” share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life – in both his business and his personal pursuits – Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaled $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friend’s early death and the disastrous results that followed for that man’s family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative “synergies” – savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirer’s home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled – aptly so – a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an “exit strategy.” And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying – in far more tactful phrasing than this – “After a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.” So, I made an offer and Paul said “Yes.” One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, “We can talk about that next year, Warren; I’m too busy now.”When Greg Abel and I attended Paul’s memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTI’s first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary – geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck – occasionally extraordinary luck – has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend – John Roach – TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiary’s CEO and learn more about the acquiree’s activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroad’s headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our board’s opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSF’s third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroad’s results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSF’s earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasn’t feeling friendly to railroads – or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here I’ll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadn’t sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally “retiring” from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandson’s fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that “secrets” are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be “working.”Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfather’s grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now “worked” for many decades with people whom we like and trust. It’s a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people – no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we can’t select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching “til death do us part.” Often, they have trusted us with a large – some might say excessive – portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the “partners” Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, “It feels good to ‘work’ for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.”The Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. “Cousin” Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon “party” boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmy’s masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his family’s use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. 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