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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: WEBspired ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Strategy - covered calls in retirement
Date: 07/19/23 3:45 PM
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My vote goes to a special Large dividend from APPL with true excess cash at this valuation. BRK would only pay 14% on the dividend in taxes as it's held within the insurance cos. I trust WEB to allocate more wisely than I do Tim, but we gotta hand it to Tim- over 40% shrinkage of share count over 10 years- pretty dang Impressive! Agree, WEB is like a teenager in love wrt Apple, Tim Cook and it's incredible sticky ecosystem so I think he does not mind the pricy buybacks here as much given he gets a larger piece of the long term pie for his partners and sees it as the Hope Diamond. Yes, call me a fanboy, but I find it quite hard to trim such a gem, even knowing it's very likely overvalued. Nearly always regret trimming my long term flowers in the garden.
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