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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 F / Fairfax Financial (FFH)
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Author: rnam   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Buying opportunity?
Date: 02/10/26 4:50 PM
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Is PE a good valuation metric for an insurance / diversified financial like FFX?

Do GAAP earnings vary a lot based on unrealized gains/losses on portfolio holdings?

For similar companies like BRK and MKL, we don’t usually see GAAP PE used for valuation. More often we see operational earnings, adjusted normalized earnings or book value used for valuation.

I do have limit buy orders at $1600, hoping to buy in an AI induced panic that seems to have hit many sectors recently, including insurance brokers.

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This community has written 58 posts about Fairfax Financial. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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