Josh Brown, CEO, Ritholtz Wealth Management Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (B) BRK.B-N DON'T BUY Jun 20, 2025

Likes it. Smartest people in the room, as they were raising cash before the markets went down earlier this year. Buffett's leaving, but has built a pretty deep bench. If it never did another deal, its many legacy brands are really great producers. Doesn't pay a distribution, but owns a bunch of really-high-cashflowing businesses.

Investment portfolio consisting of public stocks and private companies. His firm really likes private equity. Stock dipped when handover to new CEO was announced, but nothing else has changed. That's why he likes the stock now. Greg Abel's been there since 2011 under Buffett's tutelage, so it should be smooth sailing. He sees a parallel with AAPL, when Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs. 

Doesn't pay a dividend, but will generate a quarter billion dollars in dividends alone this year, which get reinvested back into the business. That's pretty decent growth right there.

Saturday sees the latest results. Enough with the negativity. BRK holds amazing properties, even if Warren Buffet is stepping back as CEO. If they have a good quarter, the stock will run.

The genius running their insurance business remains--business as usual. No, there won't be another Buffett or Munger, but their successor is well-train and hope he was the right choice. Look at Apple: Tim Cook put his own stamp on the company. He remain comfortable owning BRK.

Doesn't know why people are buying and selling daily. Gives you exposure to broad, global markets with significant overweight to the US. You're trusting them to invest your $$ better than you can. Over long periods of time, proven to be no different than buying a large-scale, low-cost index fund. 

20, 30, 40 years ago, they were much smaller and made a difference. So big now that they can't make enough of a difference in buying good companies and have them be accretive. Well run, and the pedigree's there. Great holding if you're looking for something with a value tilt. No dividend.

Strip out the stock portfolio, and its operating business is very cheap at 12-13x PE.

It's made a large bet on a correction in the market, with a cash hoard of $300-350B. So far they've been wrong. This afternoon's announcement won't help that if interest rates go lower. It's the biggest buyer of treasury bills in the world.

He's not in favour of trying to time the market. Hard to speak poorly of this name, as it's done so well over many decades. He remains pretty well fully invested in the market and rides the ups and downs.

How can you argue with the wisdom of Buffett? Great holdings. Very patient, long-term capital, and most people aren't patient enough. Like owning an ETF, but a very good one. He's a fan.

Solid uptrend for quite some time, and now starting to level off. Resistance ~$550. Slipped back under $500, that nice round number. Next support looks to be ~$450-460. Looks to him like a sideways consolidation trading range, like a lot of insurance stocks.

Performed extremely well. Key is that Warren Buffett's stepping down will change its nature. Stock price started falling on that announcement. Big percentage of portfolio in AAPL. Contains a lot of value names, while it's growth that performs well in a falling interest rate environment. Not much in the way of the new frontier of AI.

Could have a place in your portfolio if you want names that have lower valuations.