Why Warren Buffett Bought $1 Billion in Apple Stock



May 16 -- Unigestion Investment Director Federico Schiffrin weighs in on Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Apple. He speaks on "Bloomberg ‹GO›."

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  1. sounds like a mistake
  2. $APPL vs. $QCOM: What's an investor in both to do? https://twitter.com/1ResilientSoul
  3. It is now in between a mature/phil fischer type company that has a nice moat - predictable growth - a very high return on capital and was selling for less than 75% of its enterprise value - (whats it selling for?& how much is it worth - taking also into account what its gonna give you-buffett) i bought it before it was announced that buffett had bought it - i am really pleased
  4. apples next quarterly report will be out in jan 25 2017. hopefully it will be good news, due to iphone 7 sales. then price should rocket :)
  5. smart move. Apple has a lot of cash on hand. Business continue to be profitable. It wont go bankrupt easily and they have a strong loyal customers base
  6. This seems a poor decision on Berkshire's part. Warren has always liked 'boring' businesses which tend to make profits consistently. Apple is now and will continue to be dependent on new products, and assuming that these new products will continue to have the same enthusiasm for the buyers of its devices. Unlike Coca Cola or other long term stables (and they also have some risk), Apple's future business is far less reliable from a profit perspective.
  7. Apple is a fashion company -- just like Coca-Cola, or those jewellery and furniture outfits Buffett has invested in.

    That "Hathaway" in his company's name? Shirt company. Pure fashion design, just like Apple.

    -dlj.
  8. Easy math ! Apple's stock price are currently low so he bought them and when it goes up he will sell them !
  9. I don't think Buffett sees Apple as "unsexy." I think he believes that they have a stranglehold on a large part of the mobile phone, tablet, and computer market, and that given his resources and connections probably would not be able to build a competitor that takes out Apple's moxie.
  10. Channel your inner Warren Buffett!
  11. buffet need to continue pushing globalism aka current economic system. if you see his speech he's been saying what a wonderful time we lived in, backed in 2008 he was the one with gate who saved Goldman Sachs.
  12. who is the crossed eyed motherfucker
  13. Warren Buffet might believe that in the future (1-2 years), the taxes on business will be lower and then Apple will try to move their money to the U.S. and open up big profits for share holders.
  14. how much does one need?
    i mean can he even count it a lifetime?
  15. Another one of his plays are buying companies with massive amounts of hard assets. This is a real market hedge and a real value add to a company. After-all, if a company owns an entire private railroad, clearly the company has real assets, real diversification, and real value.
  16. I think Warren has afew different investment plays. One can be classified as the positive viewed big brand cash cow that appears to own a consumer market. Coca Cola, Heinz, and Apple.
  17. Look at these peasants trying to analyze what the 2nd richest man just did.. Maybe he bought it because every year apple manages to sell practically the same product to bunch of herds, just like gillette razors or coca cola, iphone, pad, etc become more of a necessity.. I don't know, time will tell..
  18. It wasn't him who added a position. It was one two of his teams. Not him!
  19. Is Frederico blind?
  20. Apple has been going downhill for years, ask anyone in tech or someone with a degree and daily tech learning (myself). Apple has been subpar for years, the idiots just see the Apple ads and think its popular (just like facebook). Both of those companies advertised to get popular, not actually make anything new. They copied other companies and advertised more than those companies, that is why Steve JObs was nothing but a genius of marketing if you study what he truly did, he didn't invent jack or innovate anything but advertising to the masses to buy his copycat idea.


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