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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺🐝 SILVER
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Subject: Re: End of an era - profit slowdown
Date: 12/27/23 9:53 PM
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... nor (other than Apple) concentrated in companies that are apparently richly valued at the moment.

FWIW
If you take BAC, AXP and OXY together as one $66 billion lump of positions, that lump is trading at about 11.8 times current run rate earnings.
Alas even in aggregate that's still only 1/3 the market cap of the Apple position, but it shows that the typical Berkshire position isn't currently showing signs of being bubbly. As is usually the case.

Speaking of big positions being cheap---
I have never been a huge fan of Bank of America, but it does seem pretty cheap these days. It has been lagging the market for two years now.
They seem to have the ability to make $3.50 a share per year lately. Outside of problem periods, anyway. That makes the current price of $33.84 look pretty good even without pencilling in any future real growth at all.

Jim
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