How can I invest into Warren Buffet’s invested company in China called BYD? It is the electric car company.?
How can I invest into Warren Buffet’s invested company in China called BYD? It is the electric car company. http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/285?countrycode=hk
I think it is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, not sure how to go about in investing into this. How much value per share, what is minimum investment required.
BYD is a Chinese Automobile manufacturer company which is listed in Stock Exchange of HongKong. Warren Buffett’s Bershire Hathaway Inc took an approximately 10% stake in this company.Share value variate daily. You can invest though HongKong stock Exchange .Any recognized broker may help you in investment.
Value Investing: Where and/or how can I find past earnings per share data for publicly traded securities?
I have recently began to embrace the idea of value investing after reading up on people like Warren Buffet and Phil Town. I have found it very difficult to find information I need to finish my calculations. Information like earnings per share data spanning up to 10 years prior to the present. Also is there anyone here familiar with Phil Town and his method for picking stocks. I find some of his instructions a bit confusing and would like a simple breakdown of it or any other successful methods for value investing. Thank you everyone for your help!
You can get the past ten years of earnings data from Morningstar.com. Never heard of Phil Town. I’ve heard of Warren Buffet, Philip Fisher and Benjamin Graham.
Why don’t more billionaires step up to the plate like Warren Buffet and invest in America?
I recently saw an interview on front-line that consisted of a British economic guru/author criticizing Warren Buffets decision to "Invest in America". I.E. Mr. Buffet should be cautious about investing in hard economic times. I thought to myself "Who is this guy? Why bust Buffets chops with this?" I personally praise Warrens decision and wondered "Why don’t more Billionaires pitch in and do as Warren is and ‘invest’ in American industry and create jobs.
Here is an excerpt from an article that talks a little about Warrens investment: In a statement, Buffet, whose investing decisions are carefully scrutinized by the world of finance, voiced confidence in the railroad industry.
"Most important of all, however, it’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States. I love these bets," he said Tuesday.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. already owns a 22 percent stake in Burlington Northern and would buy up the rest under the deal, for a total value of $34 billion. It still needs approval from Burlington shareholders and antitrust regulators
You hear about Buffett more than other billionaires simply because Buffett’s job is to allocate capital. That is to make investments. His company, Berkshire Hathaway produces billions of dollars of cash flow every year that the producing businesses don’t need. Therefore Buffett constantly is making new investments which make headlines.
Other billionaires, like Gates (Microsoft) or the Waltons (Walmart), let most of their company’s money get reinvested in growing the same entity.
Also, Buffett has been waiting for years for prices to get to an acceptable level.
Haven’t we heard enough from Warren Buffet and this BS about a second stimulus?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8039651&page=1&cid=yahoo_pitchlist
I can only believe that given his style of investing (Value–buy quality low priced) that he is sitting on a pile of cash and wants to buy stocks at an even cheaper price.
Shouldn’t this ogre of a father/investor shut the hell up and let the rest of America have some say. He is after all a shill for the White House.
fire woman, i don’t see mr. and mrs. America getting headlines from the news agencies. free speech indeed. forced policy is what this is. it is not his freedom in question, it is the rest of America!
He has made his fortune, has structured his income to avoid taxation, refused to leave anything to his own flesh & blood at his death, should it really be any surprise he doesn’t give a damn about the tax payers of this country?
Debt? we dont need no stinking debt!?
So, heres my situation, borrowed 30k in credit card debt and invested 10k of my own money for a total of 40k into the stock market back in November when things got bad and everyone including buffet was saying "now is the time to invest in stocks!". I margined my account meaning i borrowed even more, diversified into 15 or so large companies, (Apple, Bank of America, Intel, adobe, sprint etc etc.) and as of Tuesday afternoon, my account value is around 8k. For a loss of 32k. Should i declare bankruptcy? hold on and watch my account value go to 0? any advice would be great. thanks
I can tell you that bankruptcy is not a option under the new laws this would be seen as fraud and you would not be allowed to include the credit cards.
Other then that all I can say is sorry and good luck.
HELP NEEDED – Investing – Need security. Is my money safer in the US or another country?
I have over $20, 000 that I am investing in a CD at a major US bank (Bank of America @ 2.50%- 9 month CD "no risk/early withdrawal penalties"). Although my $ is "supposedly" FDIC insured I do not want to lose a dime. With all the uncertainty that is going on would it be wise to move my $ (convert it) to overseas currency until things turn around? MANY are talking about the US economy crashing like the great depression and the talk out of Washington is very alarmist (doesn’t inspire confidence on Wall Street- Jim Kramer and Buffet also think we are in BIG trouble). I am personally not sure about this bailout helping- at all. Even if FDIC insured, my $ will be worth little if the value of the US $ drops substantially which is looking more and more like a possibility. WHAT COUNTRY WOULD YOU SUGGEST I put my $ into and how (what financial instrument) do you recommend- I want safety and sure, a little interest if possible but security of my hard earned $ first and foremost. If not a foreign country I was considering buying real estate on the cheap with the thought that in 5+ years it could rebound substantially- wish the tax credit stayed at a max of 15k- I think they dropped it to 10k.
TO JATIN:
I FEEL LIKE YOU WORK FOR FOREX- IF SO, YAHOO ANSWERS IS NOT THE PLACE TO PITCH OR SELL PEOPLE ON THINGS. MYSELF AND OTHERS HAVE POSTED BEFORE AND YOU TRY TO SELL FOREX HARD- PLEASE STOP DOING THAT. IF YOU HAVE ADVICE GIVE IT BUT DON’T KEEP TROLLING THIS FORUM AND PITCHING FOREX WITH 1-2 DRAMATIC SENTENCES AND NO SUPPORTING INFORMATION- VERY ANNOYING AND OBVIOUS. YOU DID NOT SELL ME.
Well, there was an item in today’s news that the FDIC may become insolvent later this year, and there was news a day or two before that some international group did a survey and concluded that the safest banks in the world are in: Canada, Sweden, Luxemborg, Australia, and Denmark. If I were taking money out of the country, that would be my short list for places to park it. Something else, when you go shopping for banks, see if your account would be keeping your money in dollars or converting to the local currency. A drop in dollar value is greatest in a land where the local currency is rising. Then too this will change over time, so there are no guarantees.
And as for taxes, you can safely bet that taxes will change and not for the better. If you earn money on your savings abroad, you still have to declare it, although you’ve already paid tax on the $20k initial stake, so it is just on the increase. Some countries don’t tax foreigners and others don’t tax their citizens when they live elsewhere in the world, but the US and Sweden and a few others expect their citizens to pay their home taxes whereever they go. Just because you park some money elsewhere, don’t get fooled into thinking that the IRS is no longer interested in it, they are actually more interested in what happened with it.
Haven’t we heard enough from Warren Buffet and this BS about a second stimulus?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8039651&page=1&cid=yahoo_pitchlist
I can only believe that given his style of investing (Value–buy quality low priced) that he is sitting on a pile of cash and wants to buy stocks at an even cheaper price.
Shouldn’t this ogre of a father/investor shut the hell up and let the rest of America have some say. He is after all a shill for the White House.
remember recently he and the other super rich from around the world got together and plotted how the world could better serve them. not us, them.
gates and buffett can bite me. both of those noblesse oblige morons can give away their money all they want and still have plenty. they need to keep their hands off of the rest our money.
1 he is a super rich liberal if he is so concerned about a second stimulus why cant he put up any money
2 he supported the first stimulus and we all see how that turned out
3 being how insanely rich he is there must be something in it for him
Berkshire PE ratio?
Berkshire’s A shares closed around $109,000 today, when it was reported that earnings rose 12% to 2.6 billion, or $1682 per share. Now 109,000/1632 yields a PE ratio of almost 65. I know that can’t be right, it is too high by about a factor of 6 or 7 from what I know about Warren Buffet’s value investing style. What am I missing in my calculation?
I got the numbers from this article on CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-16485932.htm
What you missed:
(a) That is $1682 for ONE QUARTER. Extended out to a year that would mean the equivalent of 64/4 or a P/E of 16.
(b) The reported earnings understate how good Berkshire is doing, since it doesn’t account well for their investment portfolio and the rise in market value of the stocks they own, etc. Since Buffet et al are so good at stock-picking, this is signficant.
What’s the history of warren buffet?
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the man. Does anyone know any good articles on the internet that delve into his investments? Does anyone know any good techniques I could use if I were to follow his investments? Is he known for any other investments other then his value investing?
The Story of Berkshire Hathaway’s Billionaire Chairman
Warren Buffett is Born
Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930 to his father Howard, a stockbroker-turned-Congressman. The only boy, he was the second of three children, and displayed an amazing aptitude for both money and business at a very early age. Acquaintances recount his uncanny ability to calculate columns of numbers off the top of his head – a feat Warren still amazes business colleagues with today.
At only six years old, Buffett purchased 6-packs of Coca Cola from his grandfather’s grocery store for twenty five cents and resold each of the bottles for a nickel, pocketing a five cent profit. While other children his age were playing hopscotch and jacks, Warren was making money. Five years later, Buffett took his step into the world of high finance.
At eleven years old, he purchased three shares of Cities Service Preferred at $38 per share for both himself and his older sister, Doris. Shortly after buying the stock, it fell to just over $27 per share. A frightened but resilient Warren held his shares until they rebounded to $40. He promptly sold them – a mistake he would soon come to regret. Cities Service shot up to $200. The experience taught him one of the basic lessons of investing: patience is a virtue.
Warren Buffett’s Education
In 1947, a seventeen year old Warren Buffett graduated from High School. It was never his intention to go to college; he had already made $5,000 delivering newspapers (this is equal to $42,610.81 in 2000). His father had other plans, and urged his son to attend the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Buffett stayed two years, complaining that he knew more than his professors. When Howard was defeated in the 1948 Congressional race, Warren returned home to Omaha and transferred to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Working full-time, he managed to graduate in only three years.
Warren Buffett approached graduate studies with the same resistance he displayed a few years earlier. He was finally persuaded to apply to Harvard Business School, which, in the worst admission decision in history, rejected him as "too young". Slighted, Warren applied to Columbia where famed investors Ben Graham and David Dodd taught – an experience that would forever change his life.
Ben Graham – Buffett’s Mentor
Ben Graham had become well known during the 1920′s. At a time when the rest of the world was approaching the investment arena as a giant game of roulette, he searched for stocks that were so inexpensive they were almost completely devoid of risk. One of his best known calls was the Northern Pipe Line, an oil transportation company managed by the Rockefellers. The stock was trading at $65 a share, but after studying the balance sheet, Graham realized that the company had bond holdings worth $95 for every share. The value investor tried to convince management to sell the portfolio, but they refused. Shortly thereafter, he waged a proxy war and secured a spot on the Board of Directors. The company sold its bonds and paid a dividend in the amount of $70 per share.
When he was 40 years old, Ben Graham published Security Analysis, one of the greatest works ever penned on the stock market. At the time, it was risky; investing in equities had become a joke (the Dow Jones had fallen from 381.17 to 41.22 over the course of three to four short years following the crash of 1929). It was around this time that Graham came up with the principle of "intrinsic" business value – a measure of a business’s true worth that was completely and totally independent of the stock price. Using intrinsic value, investors could decide what a company was worth and make investment decisions accordingly. His subsequent book, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren celebrates as "the greatest book on investing ever written", introduced the world to Mr. Market – the best investment analogy in history.
Through his simple yet profound investment principles, Ben Graham became an idyllic figure to the twenty-one year old Warren Buffett. Reading an old edition of Who’s Who, Warren discovered his mentor was the Chairman of a small, unknown insurance company named GEICO. He hopped a train to Washington D.C. one Saturday morning to find the headquarters. When he got there, the doors were locked. Not to be stopped, Buffett relentlessly pounded on the door until a janitor came to open it for him. He asked if there was anyone in the building. As luck (or fate) would have it, there was. It turns out that there was a man still working on the sixth floor. Warren was escorted up to meet him and immediately began asking him questions about the company and its business practices; a conversation that stretched on for four hours. The man was none other than Lorimer Davidson, the Financial Vice President. The experience would be something that stayed with Buffett for the rest of his life. He eventually acquired the entire GEICO company through his corporation, Berkshire Hathaway.
What guide would you recommend for a starting investor?
Some guides ive found so far are:
-The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition
-The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing.
-pick stocks like warren buffet
please comment on any of these on whether or not they are worth a look.
I am going to start investing soon and know a little about stocks and corporations. I would like a resource that helps me or teaches me how to pick good beneficial stocks.
What would you recommend?
Thanks in advance 
first observe all the movements that select the best 10 And invest