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2024-05-15

Event summary:

  • Berkshire's mystery stock is Chubb.
  • It now owns 6.4% of it (25.9 million shares out of 406.06 million shares).
  • The stake is worth ~$6.6 bln.
    • = 25.9 million shares * $252.97 per share
      • where $252.97 is the closing price of CB on 2024-05-15

Notes from https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/berkshire-hathaway-mystery-stock-warren-buffett-fe2ac440

  • Berkshire
    • Bought 25.9 million shares of Chubb
    • Held about 8 million shares of Chubb at the end of Q3 2023
    • Held about 20 million shares of Chubb at the end of year 2023
    • operates the world’s largest P&C insurance business including auto insurer Geico
  • Buffett
    • admires Chubb
    • generally likes to pay no more than 15 times forward earnings for a stock
  • Chubb (ticker: CB)
    • is trading at about 12 times projected 2024 earnings
    • is an industry leader
    • headed by CEO Evan Greenberg
      • son of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
    • is viewed as one of the best run big P&C insurers
    • has ample underwriting margins
    • is best known for its high-end Masterpiece homeowners insurance popular with wealthy Americans
  • Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
    • is an insurance legend
    • is the former boss of AIG

From https://ycharts.com/companies/CB/shares_outstanding

  • CB shares outstanding as of 2024-04-19 = 406.06 M
diary/2024-05/2024-05-15.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/16 00:33 by raju