MarketFoolery: 06.20.2011
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🗓️ 20 June 2011
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway recently hit a 52-week low. Should investors take stock in Warren Buffett's business or has the Oracle of Omaha lost the Midas touch?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 20th, and this is Market Fullery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool's stock advisor, Andy Cross, |
| 0:09.0 | also from Stock Advisor, Jason Moser, and from Motley Fool Hidden Gems Charlie Travers guys happy Monday |
| 0:14.8 | Hey Chris we will share your reactions to yes no maybe so we will help you kick off summer |
| 0:21.4 | county fair season in style but first we will take a |
| 0:24.7 | look at Berkshire Hathaway yes the Warren Buffett led holding company |
| 0:28.8 | insurance reinsurance utilities retail manufacturing, and a stock that is trading near a 52-week |
| 0:36.9 | low. |
| 0:37.9 | Andy, I will start with you, Berkshire is a stock advisor recommendation. Investors have made a lot of money off this |
| 0:45.1 | stock. What is going on now? Yeah and and Chris I'm one of them I've held I've |
| 0:49.4 | held I've been invested in Berkshire since the 90s and I haven't so by all means rubbing in well no |
| 0:54.4 | no rub in here well this is your chance now this is a good opportunity and the |
| 0:58.0 | stocks down 12% over the last three months market's about flat down a little bit |
| 1:02.0 | but with a company like Berkshire Hathaway priced months, the market's about flat down a little bit. |
| 1:02.6 | But the company like Berkshire Hathaway priced at a round book value with Warren Buffett, |
| 1:07.7 | although 80 years old, still healthy, still sound mind, you know, still a great investing |
| 1:11.9 | and business leader, there's a lot of value that Berkshire |
| 1:14.6 | can still extract from their operating units and their investments. |
| 1:17.8 | Jason, what do you think? |
| 1:18.8 | It's that age-old stock market wisdom of buying low and selling high. I mean you don't very often get a chance |
| 1:25.5 | to buy Berkshire at this low of a multiple. I mean like Andy was saying it is trading just a little |
| 1:30.0 | bit over book value right now and if you go all the way back to 1994 looking |
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