Posts

Warren Buffett Is Now A Robinhooder

avatar of @rollandthomas
25
@rollandthomas
·
·
0 views
·
3 min read

Warren Buffet is known for being an investor with a long term perspective. The legendary investor made his first purchase of shares of General Electric Company (GE), when the company held its annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. He invested $250,000 in GE shares on September 8, 1953. Warren Buffett's investment was a wise one at the time because GE was known for being able to generate positive cash flow. He eventually sold his shares many, many years later and earn a profit of more than $100 million in today's market.

When you are investing in the stock market, you are not only buying and holding shares, but are also holding an opinion of the companies and what they could possibly do in the future. This means that you should also look into companies that are known for producing income, have a history of being profitable, and have a history of paying dividends over a period of years. These are some of the qualities that make for a strong longer term investor.

Day trading in the stock market is a common practice and has been for many years. Day traders usually place large orders and make multiple trades each day, and have a short term goal, such as a large profit, or even just the ability to lock in their profits. Day trading generally involves the sale and purchase of securities on the same day in the stock market. It also involves watching the price fluctuations to increase their stocks and leverage their trading capital.

Why am I bring up day trading in the same post as billionaire Warren Buffet...because if I didn't know any better, I would think Warren was a day trader. I realize COVID-19 is causing a new normal, but it has gotten to the point where Warren's recent trading appears to have taken a new normal too.

Buffett added to the cash pile in the second quarter when Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it sold a boat of airline stock in Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines. During Berkshire's annual shareholders' meeting, Warren Buffett said the world has changed because of the covid 19 pandemic and that he had been wrong to invest in the airline industry. As a result, his company sold its stake in American airline companies which consisted: 11% stake in Delta Air Lines, 10% of American Airlines, 10% of Southwest Airlines, and 9% of United Airlines.

Buffett also spent $4 billion to buy the natural gas transmission and storage assets of Dominion Energy. It's Berkshire's first major purchase since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent market collapse in March.

In late July Buffett bought shares in bank stock, Bank Of America two different times in a span of one week. Berkshire now holds 1.02 billion BofA shares worth more than $25 billion, making it Berkshire's
second-largest equity holding behind his Apple stake.

In the past, Buffett, didn't care about gold. Like Bitcoin, Buffett felt gold wasn't productive like a farm or a company. But, now that gold miners are starting to rake in the dough due to rising gold prices, they are becoming more and more attractive as not only as investment alternative, but a hedge against inflation. So what did Buffett do, he bought stock in Barrick Gold Corporation which explores and mines for gold, copper, and silver deposits.

And Buffett moves in and out of stocks continued into the Fall as he shuffled his portfolio of value investing.

But in the third quarter of 2020, Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its position in Apple stock, which it opened in Q1 2016, while keeping a smaller stake in Amazon.com (AMZN) steady.

Other notable moves in Q3 include taking significant new positions in pharma giants Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Merck (MRK) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY).

While Buffett is known as a buy-and-hold investor, there has been major turnover lately.

In Q3, Berkshire exited Costco (COST) after dumping Delta Air Lines (DAL) and all of its airlines stocks the prior quarter because of the coronavirus hit to global air travel.

Also in Q3, Berkshire slashed positions in JPMorgan Chase (JPM) by 95%, in Wells Fargo (WFC) by 46%, and in Barrick Gold (GOLD) by 42%, the latest 13F filings show.

Source

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said this past week that he’s betting on an industry that will benefit from taking COVID-19 head on. In a regulatory filing Berkshire disclosed $5.7 billion of new healthcare stakes, including more than $1.8 billion each in Abbvie Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Merck & Co and $136 million in Pfizer Inc.

Something tells me, Buffett isn't done being a Robinhooder..

This post is my personal opinion. I’m not a financial advisor, this isn't financial advise. Do your own research before making investment decisions.

Posted Using LeoFinance Beta