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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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Author: tecmo ⎊☼  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Living from Berkshire shares
Date: 06/15/26 5:38 AM
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This is trivially easy with Google Gemini as well.

I get the following

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Estimated Year-End Book Value Per Share

Fiscal Year Ending      Book Value Per Class B Share
December 31, 2025 ~$332.44
December 31, 2024 ~$301.04
December 31, 2023 ~$259.05
December 31, 2022 ~$215.40

Then I asked it to assume I had 10,000 shares and wanted to sell 2.5%

It came up with
Selling 2.5% of the $2,769,825 average book value of your position results in proceeds of $69,245.63.
To reach your target of $69,245.63 at the current market price of $489.25 (the closing price as of June 12, 2026),
you would need to sell approximately 141.53 shares.


So this would generate around $70K x 4 = $280,000 in annual income off a portfolio value of $4,800,000 or roughly 5.8% - which is right at the average...

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