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THE ORACLE OF OMAHA · BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
Value investing: buying extraordinary businesses at reasonable prices and holding them for decades.
Warren Buffett is the most famous investor in history. Starting from a small partnership in Omaha in the 1950s, he turned Berkshire Hathaway — a declining textile mill — into a holding company worth hundreds of billions, owning Geico, BNSF Railway, See's Candies and enormous stakes in Apple, Coca-Cola, American Express and Bank of America.
A student of Benjamin Graham, he evolved pure value investing: no longer just discounted companies, but quality businesses with durable competitive advantages (the famous "moat"), bought at fair prices and held forever. His compounded return of roughly 20% a year for nearly 60 years has no documented equal over that horizon.
His annual shareholder letters are considered the world's best free investing school, and the Omaha annual meeting draws tens of thousands: the "Woodstock of capitalism".
Berkshire Hathaway's positions are public: see the 13F portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway or follow it explained in the app.
Berkshire Hathaway files a 13F with the SEC every quarter, public by law: it contains the entire US stock portfolio. InsiderFlow tracks and explains it.
"Rule No. 1: never lose money. Rule No. 2: never forget rule No. 1." Alongside: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."