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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Berkshire After Charlie

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

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Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Warren Buffett’s annual letter points to a steady path ahead. (00:21) Jason Moser and Deidre Woollard discuss: - Why Berkshire Hathaway doesn’t pay a dividend. - If utility businesses are in trouble. - What a mountain of cash means for the insurance business. (17:53) Ken Costa, author of The $100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer, explains how a sea change in wealth could impact the world’s financial future. Companies discussed: BRK.A, BRK.B, DPZ, LULU Claim your Epic discount: www.fool.com/epic Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Jason Moser, Ken Costa Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Chace Przylepa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Settle in friends, it's Uncle Warren's story time. Motley Full Money. I'm Deidra Willard here with Motley Pool

0:17.0

analyst Jason Moser. Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Deedra Willard here with Motley Pool analyst

0:24.2

Jason Moser. Jason how's your Monday going so far? Hey,

0:26.9

Dydra going really well. It's beautiful weather here in Northern Virginia so

0:30.4

you know I feel like I feel like maybe spring is just around the poor.

0:35.0

Yeah, I hope so.

0:36.0

Well, over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report dropped,

0:40.0

so we've got the task of looking at it.

0:43.0

Interesting report, you know, even if you're not a Berkshire Hathaway investor,

0:48.0

take a look at it. You don't have to read the whole 152 pages. The first 16 will do you.

0:53.4

You know, it was first one without Charlie Munger.

0:57.0

Beautiful to hear him call Charlie,

0:58.9

the architect of Berkshire.

1:01.1

But he also went back on one of the things he loves to talk about, operating earnings

1:06.3

versus net earnings.

1:07.4

So he calls it net income worth than useless.

1:11.2

So he says it doesn't reflect a company's true status. He shows the, you know, the operating

1:15.0

earnings versus the net earnings. I don't know, Jay said. He's talked about it for years. He's right, but it's not

1:20.9

like anybody else is doing the same thing and reporting both or at least not a lot a lot of companies

1:26.8

No, it definitely feels like

1:30.5

It's kind of hit or miss as to how companies will will view this and I mean I

1:35.4

understand that to a degree right I mean not all companies are the same right so

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