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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: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Berkshire's stock price
Date: 09/16/23 4:15 AM
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"There are a few opportunities I've been left scratching my head over in recent times, he could've loaded up on Alphabet at sub 100 he could've bought Meta at scale in the 100's, they seemed like two obvious examples to me. Two I purchased (no bias) yet he was buying HPQ etc."

I am not commenting on the rightness or wrongness of those purchases/non-purchases, but I am willing to bet the reason Buffett made the decisions he made at those times had a lot to do with how the share counts of those companies were growing or shrinking at that time. Buffett likes to see his stake in a company grow (or at least stay stable), he doesn't like to see his stake in a company get diluted due to an ever increasing share count.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
BRK: Why Not XOM? · 62 recs · 2024
Second quarter comments · 60 recs · 2023
Berkshire's Profit Contributors · 57 recs · 2023
Summary of 2Q 2026 · 54 recs · 2026
3Q Summary · 53 recs · 2024
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