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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: OT: Hershey
Date: 12/20/23 2:58 PM
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...initiated my position in HSY...

Meanwhile Berkshire has been doing pretty well.

In May one Berkshire share would buy you 1.2 Hershey shares.
It will now buy you 1.97 of them.
Based on move in the ratio, I'm thinking of moving some money from one to the other.

Though the future one of the harder things to predict, I sort of expect a better outcome from Hershey shares than from Berkshire shares in the next 8-16 months.
Very crude reasoning: Hershey appears to be a fair bit cheaper than Hershey usually is, and Berkshire is a modest amount more expensive than Berkshire usually is.

For anybody checking up on me next year, Berkshire is at $357.70 and Hershey is at $180.75.

Jim
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