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How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway

Barrons2021-12-02

Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion. The recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...

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This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. 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This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603403370,"gmtCreate":1638435679149,"gmtModify":1638436115032,"author":{"id":"3575311552142146","authorId":"3575311552142146","name":"myLaohor","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1ee11e351b6ef6ec0c8751da005b4a83","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575311552142146","authorIdStr":"3575311552142146"},"htmlText":"Hope apple will settle and keep growing steadily over the future years","listText":"Hope apple will settle and keep growing steadily over the future years","text":"Hope apple will settle and keep growing steadily over the future years","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603403370","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6813522,"gmtCreate":1638439428813,"gmtModify":1638439428935,"authorId":3574823700698255,"author":{"id":3574823700698255,"idStr":"3574823700698255","authorId":3574823700698255,"name":"starry123","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/87d54ddf9f429d363c691c937e6c97a4","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603403370,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"should be able to","text":"should be able to","html":"should be able to"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603578995,"gmtCreate":1638434369307,"gmtModify":1638434369945,"author":{"id":"4087709618925430","authorId":"4087709618925430","name":"Jjjjia","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/25215d9b4b22838734cba07948cafe46","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087709618925430","authorIdStr":"4087709618925430"},"htmlText":"Like pls","listText":"Like pls","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603578995","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812917,"gmtCreate":1638436000065,"gmtModify":1638436000169,"authorId":3581457295593751,"author":{"id":3581457295593751,"idStr":"3581457295593751","authorId":3581457295593751,"name":"jamieee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/06b9919d4588e900e225316a0dc4f98b","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603578995,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"},{"id":6812700,"gmtCreate":1638434490081,"gmtModify":1638434490117,"authorId":3581733600355622,"author":{"id":3581733600355622,"idStr":"3581733600355622","authorId":3581733600355622,"name":"rhuang84","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba486a37450f2bd0517abe842a101918","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603578995,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"b","text":"b","html":"b"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603571167,"gmtCreate":1638434287150,"gmtModify":1638434287266,"author":{"id":"3585306220917787","authorId":"3585306220917787","name":"JJ1995","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a7b7598df33bae920cf1aa01d5548891","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3585306220917787","authorIdStr":"3585306220917787"},"htmlText":"Like&nbsp;","listText":"Like&nbsp;","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603571167","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812688,"gmtCreate":1638434356977,"gmtModify":1638434356977,"authorId":3577917165320806,"author":{"id":3577917165320806,"idStr":"3577917165320806","authorId":3577917165320806,"name":"KinKat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/05a5d7e664c9e14d1097e19f1846ce94","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603571167,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"✅","text":"✅","html":"✅"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603573489,"gmtCreate":1638434198051,"gmtModify":1638434199211,"author":{"id":"3582633189757328","authorId":"3582633189757328","name":"Ly99","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad04aa6a4345f682b5fa75c514b9b871","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582633189757328","authorIdStr":"3582633189757328"},"htmlText":"Like pls&nbsp;","listText":"Like pls&nbsp;","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603573489","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812673,"gmtCreate":1638434255547,"gmtModify":1638434255582,"authorId":3577229760496516,"author":{"id":3577229760496516,"idStr":"3577229760496516","authorId":3577229760496516,"name":"木吉蒂","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/89290f2c42589f1e42296c61dde71238","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603573489,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"✅","text":"✅","html":"✅"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603579947,"gmtCreate":1638433941520,"gmtModify":1638433942080,"author":{"id":"3570063321997588","authorId":"3570063321997588","name":"hitithard","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/309ce7b357018aa7b946332c2fe8725c","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570063321997588","authorIdStr":"3570063321997588"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603579947","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812668,"gmtCreate":1638434208253,"gmtModify":1638434208353,"authorId":3582633189757328,"author":{"id":3582633189757328,"idStr":"3582633189757328","authorId":3582633189757328,"name":"Ly99","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad04aa6a4345f682b5fa75c514b9b871","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603579947,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603570759,"gmtCreate":1638433933117,"gmtModify":1638433933198,"author":{"id":"4101203175267600","authorId":"4101203175267600","name":"7a262f6","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4101203175267600","authorIdStr":"4101203175267600"},"htmlText":"Like ty","listText":"Like ty","text":"Like ty","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603570759","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812636,"gmtCreate":1638433952881,"gmtModify":1638433952985,"authorId":3570063321997588,"author":{"id":3570063321997588,"idStr":"3570063321997588","authorId":3570063321997588,"name":"hitithard","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/309ce7b357018aa7b946332c2fe8725c","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603570759,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>Ok</u>","text":"<u>Ok</u>","html":"<u>Ok</u>"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":603570183,"gmtCreate":1638433900703,"gmtModify":1638433901120,"author":{"id":"3577323914202336","authorId":"3577323914202336","name":"VinKuang","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/536d624e5750dcffec704eeed9bc003b","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577323914202336","authorIdStr":"3577323914202336"},"htmlText":"Pls like tyvm[Happy]&nbsp;","listText":"Pls like tyvm[Happy]&nbsp;","text":"Pls like tyvm[Happy]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/603570183","repostId":1159346813,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1159346813","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1638433630,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1159346813?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-02 16:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1159346813","media":"Barrons","summary":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now","content":"<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to&nbsp;Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.</p>\n<p>The recent gain in&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. <i>Barron’s</i> has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.</p>\n<p>The current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.</p>\n<p>Berkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.</p>\n<p>Apple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola&nbsp; (KO),&nbsp;Bank of America&nbsp;(BAC), and&nbsp;American Express&nbsp;(AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.</p>\n<p>Berkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.</p>\n<p>The equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.</p>\n<p>Berkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.</p>\n<p>Berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.</p>\n<p>The company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. <i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;has estimated&nbsp;that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.</p>\n<p>With the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.</p>\n<p>After besting the&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&amp;P 500.</p>\n<p>There is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>How Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway</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\">\nHow Apple’s Rally Is a Boon to Berkshire Hathaway\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-02 16:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA\">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","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-berkshire-hathaway-51638371498?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1159346813","content_text":"Apple‘s rising stock price is a boon to Berkshire Hathaway,whose 5% stake in the iPhone maker is now worth about $151 billion.\nThe recent gain in Apple shares (ticker: AAPL) is making Berkshire stock (BRK.A and BRK.B) more appealing by lifting the company’s shareholder equity, or book value.\nBerkshire class A shares trade for around 1.25 times projected year-end book value of about $333,000 a share. This is an estimate from Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan, who has a Buy rating on Berkshire stock. Book value ended the third quarter at about $316,000 per class A share. Barron’s has been bullish on Berkshire, including making it one of our top stock picks for 2021.\nThe current price-to-book ratio is below the average of about 1.4 times over the past year, but above the year-end 2020 ratio of 1.2 times.\nBerkshire holds roughly 908 million Apple shares (based on the company’s third-quarter 10-Q). The stake is valued at $151 billion. Apple shares gained 3.2% Tuesday, to $165.30, bucking a sharp decline in the overall market.\nApple now accounts almost half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. which totaled $311 billion on Sept. 30. Four stocks—Apple,Coca-Cola  (KO), Bank of America (BAC), and American Express (AXP)—make up more than 70% of its equity holdings. Berkshire is valued at around $625 billion.\nBerkshire’s cost for its Apple stock is $31 billion, or about $35 a share, with the stock largely purchased between 2016 and 2018. It’s sitting on a gain of about $120 billion, making it the biggest score of CEO Warren Buffett’s long tenure at Berkshire, dating back to 1965.\nThe equity holdings and Berkshire’s cash of $149 billion make up nearly 75% of the company’s market value.\nBerkshire does have about $40 billion of debt and other borrowings at what it calls its insurance and other businesses. It also has significant insurance liabilities.\nBerkshire has been an aggressive buyer of its stock this year, continuing a trend from the last half of 2020.\nThe company has bought back $20.2 billion of shares in the first nine months of 2021, including $7.6 billion in the third quarter. The buybacks continued into October. Barron’s has estimated that Berkshire purchased about $1.8 billion of stock based on the share count listed in Berkshire’s 10-Q.\nWith the recent drop in Berkshire’s stock, Buffett may continue to be an aggressive buyer of the shares. The current share price is below the average price at which the company bought back shares in the third quarter. This is shaping up as a good year for Berkshire despite minimal investment activity, with book value on pace to rise about 16%, driven by earnings growth and gains in the equity portfolio.\nAfter besting the S&P 500 earlier this year, Berkshire now is behind the index with a year-to-date gain of about 20%, against a 21.6% total return for the S&P 500.\nThere is some frustration among investors with Buffett’s inactivity on investments, but the 91-year-old CEO sees few opportunities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6812631,"gmtCreate":1638433937549,"gmtModify":1638433937648,"authorId":4101203175267600,"author":{"id":4101203175267600,"idStr":"4101203175267600","authorId":4101203175267600,"name":"7a262f6","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":603570183,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"ok","text":"ok","html":"ok"}],"langContent":"CN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":32,"commentSize":8,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}