$167.6 billion in cash<\/a> in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n“Outside the U.S., there are essentially no candidates that are meaningful options for capital deployment at Berkshire. All in all, we have no possibility of eye-popping performance,” Buffett said.<\/p>\n
Berkshire did build a 9% stake in five Japanese trading companies \u2014 Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo, which Buffett intends to own long term.<\/p>\n
The 93-year-old Buffett said Berkshire’s group of diversified, quality businesses should provide “slightly better” performance than the average U.S. company, but anything more than that is unlikely.<\/p>\n
‘With our present mix of businesses, Berkshire should do a bit better than the average American corporation and, more important, should also operate with materially less risk of permanent loss of capital,” Buffett said. “Anything beyond ‘slightly better,’ though, is wishful thinking.”<\/p>\n
Berkshire recently hit consecutive record highs, trading above $620,000 for Class A shares and boasting a market value above $900 billion.<\/p>\n
The conglomerate’s stock has gained about 16% in 2024, more than double the\u00a0S&P 500\u2032s return, after climbing 16% in all of 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Source: www.cnbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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