Berkshire Hathaway redovisade aktiviter som hänt i portföljen under Q4 nyligen.
Man har ökat på positionerna i bolag som IBM, DaVita, DirectTV, GM och Charter, men det stora "hallået" var den kraftiga ökningen i Deere. Berkshire köpte ju Deere aktier för ett tag sedan för att sedan till synes avyttra dem förra kvartalet då de inte längre fanns med i förteckningen.
Nu visar det sig att anledningen att Deere innehav "mörkats" är att man köpt och köpt fler aktier i bolaget. Berkshire Hathaway har tillåtelse av SEC att i speciella fall inte gå ut med innehav som man har eller ökar i för att sådan information kan då vara väldigt kursdrivande. En kursdrivande effekt kan göra att de inte har möjlighet att köpa på sig det de önskar. Fint undantag va!?
Jag tycker detta exempel visar på faran av att "Följa John. Säg att man köpt Deere aktier för att man sett Berkshire köpa, sedan sålt dem för att man trott Berkshire sålt. Då hade det inte blivit en bra affär.
Ska man "Följa John" så ska man göra det genom att observera på vilka grunder någon annan agerar. Du kan man möjligtvis lära sig något hur man kan tänka. Det blir lite som att läsa investeringslitteratur men i real tid, men jag tycker inte man per automatik ska apa efter i köp och sälj-beslut.
Ska vi även ta en titt på sälj-besluten under Q4 så verkar Berkshire sålt av aktier i Exxon och ConocoPhillips. Eller hur är det nu igen? Är de verkligen sålda? Har det någon betydelse?
Det viktiga i sammanhanget är att man bildar sig en egen uppfattning kring vilka eventuella aktier man bör äga.
Tankar, noteringar och funderingar om aktier och investeringar
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torsdag 19 februari 2015
lördag 15 november 2014
Månadens MIILF
Dags för en liten kort uppdatering gällande månadens MIILF - Mature Investors I´d Like to Follow.
Denna MIILF-bevakning uppdateras fortlöpande och fokus ligger på vad några erkänt duktiga kapitalförvaltare förvärvat och till vilka priser de ansåg det vara köpvärt.
Didner & Gerge
Q3
Swedish Match ca 235 kr
Volvo ca 80 kr
Elekta ca 75 kr
Swedbank ca 175 kr
H&M ca 290 kr
Skagen
Oktober
Lundin Mining ca 33 kr
Unilever ca 41 usd
Sanofi ca 50 usd
AIG ca 52 usd
Goldman Sachs ca 180 usd
Citigroup ca 51 usd
Warren Buffet
Q3
Directv ca 86 usd
Charter Communications 158 usd
General Motors 35 usd
WalMart ca 76 usd
Donald Yacktman
Q3
Twenty-First Century Fox ca 34 usd
Oracle Corporation ca 41 usd
Procter & Gamble ca 82 usd
Denna MIILF-bevakning uppdateras fortlöpande och fokus ligger på vad några erkänt duktiga kapitalförvaltare förvärvat och till vilka priser de ansåg det vara köpvärt.
Didner & Gerge
Q3
Swedish Match ca 235 kr
Volvo ca 80 kr
Elekta ca 75 kr
Swedbank ca 175 kr
H&M ca 290 kr
Skagen
Oktober
Lundin Mining ca 33 kr
Unilever ca 41 usd
Sanofi ca 50 usd
AIG ca 52 usd
Goldman Sachs ca 180 usd
Citigroup ca 51 usd
Warren Buffet
Q3
Directv ca 86 usd
Charter Communications 158 usd
General Motors 35 usd
WalMart ca 76 usd
Donald Yacktman
Q3
Twenty-First Century Fox ca 34 usd
Oracle Corporation ca 41 usd
Procter & Gamble ca 82 usd
söndag 25 mars 2012
Intervju med Mohnish Pabrai
Mohnish Pabrai är välkänd i värdeinvesteringskretsar och säger sig själv försöka följa mycket av Warren Buffetts investeringsfilosofi genom sitt Pabrai Investment Fund. Inte allt för sällan så har de hänt att de köpt aktier i samma bolag ungefär samtidigt. Senaste sådant exempel är det amerikanska tv-bolaget DirectTV (DTV) som uppenbarligen tilltalar dem båda.
Pabrai är också författare till bl.a. The Dhandho Investor en bok som handlar om hans sätt att se på investeringar.
Själv har jag naturligtvis inte intervjuat Mohnish Pabrai, men jag passar istället på att publicera delar av en äldre intervju som publicerades 2007 i samband med lanseringen av hans bok The Dhandho Investor som jag tycker är mycket läsvärd.
You clearly believe in having a broad latticework of knowledge from different educational disciplines from which to draw upon when judging investment ideas. Can you describe how you spend your day? Do you devote a general percentage of your time to reading "non-investment" material versus 10-Ks, etc.?
My calendar is mostly empty. I try to have no more than one meeting a week. Beyond that, the way the day is spent is quite open. If I'm in the midst of drilling down on a stock, I might spend a few days just focused on reading documents related to that one business. Other times, I'm usually in the midst of some book, and part of the day goes to keeping up with correspondence -- mostly email.
I take a nap nearly every afternoon. There is a separate room with a bed in our offices. And I usually stay up late. So some reading, etc., is at night.
In Trade Like Warren Buffett, you mention that you let investment ideas come to you by reading a lot, and also monitoring familiar names on the NYSE. Can you describe your process of generating investment ideas -- is it simply just reading a lot? Do you do anything else to actively seek out ideas?
The No. 1 skill that a successful investor needs is patience. You need to let the game come to you. My steady-state modus operandi is to assume that I'm just a gentleman of leisure, and that I'm not in the investment business. If something looks so compelling that it screams out at me, saying "Buy me!!," I then do a drill-down. Otherwise, I'm just reading for reading's sake. So, I scan a few sources and usually can find something scream out at me a few times a year.
A big part of investing is knowing what to pay attention to and what not to [focus on]. How do you sift through the thousands of investment ideas? Often, bargains are bargains because they're unrecognizable -- how do you spot the needles in the haystack, and how do you avoid the value traps?
I wait to hear the scream. "Buy me!" It needs to be really loud, as I'm a bit hard of hearing.
Would it be fair to say you are more balance sheet-oriented, versus income/cash flow statement-oriented? If so, how do you get comfortable with the asset values?
John Burr Williams was the first to define intrinsic value in his The Theory of Investment Value, published in 1938. Per Williams, the intrinsic value of any business is determined by the cash inflows and outflows -- discounted at an appropriate interest rate -- that can be expected to occur during the remaining life of the business. The definition is painfully simple.
So, cash can be gotten out of a business in a liquidation or by cash the business generates year after year. It is all a question of what is the likelihood of each. If future cash flows are easy to figure out and are high-probability events, then liquidation value can be set aside. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing that is a high probability of value is liquidation value. Both work. Depends on the situation. But you first need to hear a scream ...
How do you do your due diligence? Do you generally stick to industries you are already familiar with? How in-depth do you get, in terms of studying a company, its industry, and its competitors? Do you talk to a lot of people in the industry?
I don't call or meet with management or company insiders. I do rely, from time to time, on the investors in Pabrai Funds. I am blessed to have a large contingent of CEOs and entrepreneurs as investors. Many of these folks know their industry cold. So, if I'm looking at something in real estate, there are [a] few real estate experts in my circle. I read up on the business, try to honestly assess whether it is within my circle of competence, and then send my thesis to the investors with domain knowledge and get their perspective.
You don't use Excel models. How do you keep track of all the moving parts (i.e. unit costs, discounted cash flow)? Are the economics of your investment ideas so compelling/simplistic that they can be done on the back of an envelope?
Usually two to three variables control most of the outcome. The rest is noise. If you can handicap how those key variables are approximately likely to play out, then you have a basis to do something. Things that are approximate and probabilistic don't lend themselves too well to Excel modeling. For me, if I find myself reaching for Excel, it is a very strong sign to take a pass. The thesis ought to be painfully simple in your head.
There's a ton of books about value investing, but very few about "special situation" or "event driven" investments -- do you recommend any books/magazines? Do you recommend any other business publications/trade magazines? Also, you mentioned Timothy Rick in Altucher's book -- I couldn't find anything on him (was it supposed to be Timothy Vick?) -- can you point me in the right direction?
Yes, it's Tim Vick. Buffett has spoken and written a lot about special situations. One should read up on the Buffett Partnership letters and Shareholder letters, as well as the annual meeting transcripts printed in OID. Tim talks about it in his book as well. Finova was a recent Buffett Special Situation, as were his adventures with Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT ) Bonds, Korean stocks, American Express (NYSE: AXP ) in the 1960s, etc.
Do you have any additional advice that would be helpful to people, who are trying to learn as much as possible about investing?
Pursue your passion, whatever it is. If you pursue what you love, you're pretty much assured of doing well at it. If investing is your passion, then study the best intently. The best investor is Warren Buffett and he's an open book. I'd suggest spending all one's energies getting to understand Buffett's modus operandi. To the extent that it's consistent with your temperament, adopt it.
Pabrai är också författare till bl.a. The Dhandho Investor en bok som handlar om hans sätt att se på investeringar.
Själv har jag naturligtvis inte intervjuat Mohnish Pabrai, men jag passar istället på att publicera delar av en äldre intervju som publicerades 2007 i samband med lanseringen av hans bok The Dhandho Investor som jag tycker är mycket läsvärd.
You clearly believe in having a broad latticework of knowledge from different educational disciplines from which to draw upon when judging investment ideas. Can you describe how you spend your day? Do you devote a general percentage of your time to reading "non-investment" material versus 10-Ks, etc.?
My calendar is mostly empty. I try to have no more than one meeting a week. Beyond that, the way the day is spent is quite open. If I'm in the midst of drilling down on a stock, I might spend a few days just focused on reading documents related to that one business. Other times, I'm usually in the midst of some book, and part of the day goes to keeping up with correspondence -- mostly email.
I take a nap nearly every afternoon. There is a separate room with a bed in our offices. And I usually stay up late. So some reading, etc., is at night.
In Trade Like Warren Buffett, you mention that you let investment ideas come to you by reading a lot, and also monitoring familiar names on the NYSE. Can you describe your process of generating investment ideas -- is it simply just reading a lot? Do you do anything else to actively seek out ideas?
The No. 1 skill that a successful investor needs is patience. You need to let the game come to you. My steady-state modus operandi is to assume that I'm just a gentleman of leisure, and that I'm not in the investment business. If something looks so compelling that it screams out at me, saying "Buy me!!," I then do a drill-down. Otherwise, I'm just reading for reading's sake. So, I scan a few sources and usually can find something scream out at me a few times a year.
A big part of investing is knowing what to pay attention to and what not to [focus on]. How do you sift through the thousands of investment ideas? Often, bargains are bargains because they're unrecognizable -- how do you spot the needles in the haystack, and how do you avoid the value traps?
I wait to hear the scream. "Buy me!" It needs to be really loud, as I'm a bit hard of hearing.
Would it be fair to say you are more balance sheet-oriented, versus income/cash flow statement-oriented? If so, how do you get comfortable with the asset values?
John Burr Williams was the first to define intrinsic value in his The Theory of Investment Value, published in 1938. Per Williams, the intrinsic value of any business is determined by the cash inflows and outflows -- discounted at an appropriate interest rate -- that can be expected to occur during the remaining life of the business. The definition is painfully simple.
So, cash can be gotten out of a business in a liquidation or by cash the business generates year after year. It is all a question of what is the likelihood of each. If future cash flows are easy to figure out and are high-probability events, then liquidation value can be set aside. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing that is a high probability of value is liquidation value. Both work. Depends on the situation. But you first need to hear a scream ...
How do you do your due diligence? Do you generally stick to industries you are already familiar with? How in-depth do you get, in terms of studying a company, its industry, and its competitors? Do you talk to a lot of people in the industry?
I don't call or meet with management or company insiders. I do rely, from time to time, on the investors in Pabrai Funds. I am blessed to have a large contingent of CEOs and entrepreneurs as investors. Many of these folks know their industry cold. So, if I'm looking at something in real estate, there are [a] few real estate experts in my circle. I read up on the business, try to honestly assess whether it is within my circle of competence, and then send my thesis to the investors with domain knowledge and get their perspective.
You don't use Excel models. How do you keep track of all the moving parts (i.e. unit costs, discounted cash flow)? Are the economics of your investment ideas so compelling/simplistic that they can be done on the back of an envelope?
Usually two to three variables control most of the outcome. The rest is noise. If you can handicap how those key variables are approximately likely to play out, then you have a basis to do something. Things that are approximate and probabilistic don't lend themselves too well to Excel modeling. For me, if I find myself reaching for Excel, it is a very strong sign to take a pass. The thesis ought to be painfully simple in your head.
There's a ton of books about value investing, but very few about "special situation" or "event driven" investments -- do you recommend any books/magazines? Do you recommend any other business publications/trade magazines? Also, you mentioned Timothy Rick in Altucher's book -- I couldn't find anything on him (was it supposed to be Timothy Vick?) -- can you point me in the right direction?
Yes, it's Tim Vick. Buffett has spoken and written a lot about special situations. One should read up on the Buffett Partnership letters and Shareholder letters, as well as the annual meeting transcripts printed in OID. Tim talks about it in his book as well. Finova was a recent Buffett Special Situation, as were his adventures with Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT ) Bonds, Korean stocks, American Express (NYSE: AXP ) in the 1960s, etc.
Do you have any additional advice that would be helpful to people, who are trying to learn as much as possible about investing?
Pursue your passion, whatever it is. If you pursue what you love, you're pretty much assured of doing well at it. If investing is your passion, then study the best intently. The best investor is Warren Buffett and he's an open book. I'd suggest spending all one's energies getting to understand Buffett's modus operandi. To the extent that it's consistent with your temperament, adopt it.
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