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MarketFoolery: 08.04.2014

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🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Joe Magyer is back from Australia to analyze Berkshire-Hathaway’s latest quarter. Plus we break down results from Michael Kors and Procter & Gamble, and share highlights from our trip to San Francisco.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, August 4th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio

0:06.6

today from Motleyville 1, Jason Moser, and from Motleyville Inside Value, and all things Australia.

0:12.0

Joe Megh are back in the house.

0:13.6

Good night,

0:14.6

Thank you.

0:15.6

So good to see you.

0:16.7

It's great to be here.

0:17.8

It's great to have you back.

0:19.3

Let's put you to work.

0:20.8

We're going to talk about Michael Kaur's latest quarter. We're going to talk about

0:23.7

P&G. We will touch on the member event in San Francisco that Jason and I were

0:28.0

at. But let's start with Berkshire Hathaway. Second quarter profit rose 41% overall revenue for the quarter coming

0:35.9

in just shy of 50 billion. Obviously Berkshire Hathaway has got somewhere north of 80 different subsidiary businesses.

0:44.4

And I'm going to talk about each one in turn.

0:47.2

I'm going to go for coffee right now.

0:48.5

You'll still be talking when I get back.

0:50.0

Now what stood out to you in the quarter?

0:53.4

Well it was a big one in terms of profit.

0:56.6

Book value per share that was only up and I say only 5.6% through the first half of the

1:00.9

Sierra.

1:01.9

That's solid for a company this big. That's solid. Railroad not having the best

1:06.4

quarter, that's fine. It's still in a great position, a huge beneficiary of oil

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