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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: Lear   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: o/t, American retail, shrink, DG,
Date: 09/06/23 3:56 PM
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"Given that they've been expanding fast historically and have been maintaining an impressive and increasing increasing cash flow throughout why has it fallen off a cliff now?"

In addition to general panic, mentioned by Rayvt, I'd suggest that the big money doesn't want to hold a stock that has two straight reductions in guidance (under a quite newish CEO, to boot), and has basically promised that any new signs of a turnaround in earnings trajectory are unlikely to materialize until 2024.

I like the stock as a 3-5 year hold, but I suspect the big money traders are speculating that we don't see a significant turnaround in price until management calms the waters and builds confidence in its ability to return to profit growth. And that won't happen without confidence-inspiring quarterly reporting.

That said, at some point it gets too cheap too ignore the possibility of a bounce. I haven't done the calculations, but I assume we're safely at 5 year lows after the inflation adjustment. At that time (5 years back until COVID), the stock was earning about $6-6.75 a share.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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Second quarter comments · 60 recs · 2023
Berkshire's Profit Contributors · 57 recs · 2023
Summary of 2Q 2026 · 54 recs · 2026
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