Berkshire Hathaway

What do you think of Berkshire $BRK-B's quarterly results? 🤔

Berkshire Hathaway reported second-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $3.75, missing analysts' estimates of $3.76. Revenue for the quarter was $82.12 billion, compared to the consensus estimate of $82.14 billion.

Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway $BRK-B) sold 70% of his investment in Activision Blizzard $ATVI in the second quarter, and appears to have lost some of the gains as a federal judge said Microsoft can complete its $68.7 billion acquisition of the video game maker.

Berkshire Hathaway $BRK-B announced that it has acquired additional shares of oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp $OXY, increasing its stake to more than 25%.

Warren Buffett and his generosity with $BRK-A $BRK-B

This investing legend has given an annual gift to five foundations, bringing his total charitable giving to $50 billion already. Which is more than his fortune was in 2006 when he first planned these grants.

Berkshire Hathaway $BRK-A $BRK-Bboosted its holdings in five Japanese trading companies in the last quarter. The five companies are Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo.

The 10 largest companies in the S&P 500:

1) Apple $AAPL - 7.4%

2) Microsoft $MSFT - 6.7%

3) Google $GOOG - 3.8%

4) Amazon $AMZN - 3.1%

5) NVDIA $NVDA - 2.6%

6) Berkshire Hathaway $BRK-B - 1.7%

7) Tesla $TSLA - 1.7%

8) META $META - 1.6%

9) Exxon Mobil $XOM - 1.3%

10) United Health Group $UNH - 1.3%

Do you own $BRK-B? I've always been in favor of indexes where I peek continuously, but $BRK-B is quite tempting :)

Since we have the $BRK-B Annual Meeting today, let's see how much dividend money is going to Warren Buffett. That's something to work with, isn't it? 😉