Straddle
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Gisterenavond begonnen in één van de meest recente boeken over Buffett (van Carol Loomis). Dit hoofdstuk heeft me toch tot nadenken aangezet:
Zou IBM de komende jaren ook zo naar 1000$ kunnen gaan of Wells Fargo richting 400$? Het zou mij niet verbazen. Ik kan me de reacties al inbeelden van iedereen hoe duidelijk het was en waarom mensen het toen niet inzagen. We kunnen maar dromen
Ik ga nu na dit gelezen te hebben toch wat meer aandacht besteden aan quasi overheidsmonopolies. Buffett heeft bijna heel zijn carrière lang aandelen gekocht zulke bedrijven gekocht (cfr Petrochina).
Th is article delivered a true rarity: a stock tip from Buff ett. Th e reason those so seldom materialize is that Buff ett will not normally discuss stocks he is buying or selling. But, as a photo caption in this article explained, he made an exception in this case because Berkshire—the owner of a savings and loan company that had the right to buy in early—had reached the maximum number of shares it could own in Freddie Mac.
So how good was the stock tip? It was superlative. An investor who bought Freddie Mac in early December 1988 (when the December 19 issue of Fortune would have reached subscribers) would have paid a split-adjusted price of about $4 a share. If the investor had then held ten years—until December 1998—he could have sold at prices around $60. Investors looking for cues from Buffett might in fact have held on that long, because Berkshire retained almost all of its Freddie Mac stock—roughly 60 million shares—through the 1990s. But as the decade ended, Buff ett was ready to sell. In 2000, a year in which Freddie’s stock price ranged from $37 to $70, Berkshire unloaded more than 95 percent of its position, registering a big capital gain of around $3 billion. Th e sales were made out of the public eye, because Berkshire had secured the SEC’s permission to keep its sales confi dential—that is, the company was allowed to omit any mention of Freddie in what are called 13-F fi lings—until they were completed. Once they were, Berkshire amended its 13-Fs, and Buff ett disclosed in the 2000 annual report that Freddie was largely gone. He added no details, though, as to why the sales had been made.
Zou IBM de komende jaren ook zo naar 1000$ kunnen gaan of Wells Fargo richting 400$? Het zou mij niet verbazen. Ik kan me de reacties al inbeelden van iedereen hoe duidelijk het was en waarom mensen het toen niet inzagen. We kunnen maar dromen

Ik ga nu na dit gelezen te hebben toch wat meer aandacht besteden aan quasi overheidsmonopolies. Buffett heeft bijna heel zijn carrière lang aandelen gekocht zulke bedrijven gekocht (cfr Petrochina).

