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Fortune Brands Inc. (NYSE: FO) is too small to be a conglomerate. It is, however, a small mix of unrelated businesses that have few synergies. It is almost a mini-me ‘General Eclectic.’ Not...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is often hard to evaluate but if any unit will rule the roost, that is arguably GE Capital. This continued improvement was part of our thesis when we named GE as one...
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Last week we identified the ten Warren Buffett investments with the most implied upside. But we also found that there were many Buffett investments in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) which...
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Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about ups and...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010. The changes were big on the first two lists but more static on the Third list except...
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010 and the changes continue be much more extreme than in prior...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2010. This list appears to have many more changes...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is furthering its ambitions to promote cleaner energy and its Ecomagination initiative, although this is actually a company-wide issue. GE has announced that it will...
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Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task. It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull markets between now and then. Investors...
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It was largely expected that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) was going to have positive earnings trends. After all, Buffett’s stock portfolio has almost certainly surged along...
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24/7 Wall St. maintains a proprietary list of stocks, The 24/7 Wall St. Real-Time 500. This is more representative than the S&P 500 based on free-float market caps each year and updates much...
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General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is still doing M&A deals. The company has had its checkbook out lately and announcing ventures, and this morning came word from GE Healthcare that it was...
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Earnings season is well under way. The floodgates are open wide and we still have 6 more of the 30 DJIA components left to report this week. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT),...
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GE showed the world that it has been unable to transform itself from an unwieldy conglomerate to a company that is worth more than the sum of its parts. The firm says it will increase its M&A...
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Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning. A market concern and a sector concern so far is that many...
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