No. of Recommendations: 12
There may come a time when Berkshire pays a dividend, they’ve stated such:
“If we reach the point that we can't create extra value by retaining earnings, we will pay them out and let our shareholders deploy the funds.”
Do you expect Buffett to kill the stock so that brkb can buy back at prices and valuations he passed on for decades?
I expect Buffett to do what he can to keep Berkshire trading at a reasonable, if low, valuation as they stated in the Owner Principles:
“To the extent possible, we would like each Berkshire shareholder to record a gain or loss in market value during his period of ownership that is proportional to the gain or loss in per-share intrinsic value recorded by the company during that holding period. For this to come about, the relationship between the intrinsic value and the market price of a Berkshire share would need to remain constant, and by our preferences at 1-to-1. As that implies, we would rather see Berkshire's stock price at a fair level than a high level. Obviously, Charlie and I can't control Berkshire's price. But by our policies and communications, we can encourage informed, rational behavior by owners that, in turn, will tend to produce a stock price that is also rational. Our it's-as-bad-to-be- overvalued-as-to-be-undervalued approach may disappoint some shareholders. We believe, however, that it affords Berkshire the best prospect of attracting long-term investors who seek to profit from the progress of the company rather than from the investment mistakes of their partners.“
