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Warren Buffett Likely Eyeing Financial Investments

Conservative Guard by Conservative Guard
March 23, 2023
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett has been in discussions with senior Biden administration officials about the banking crisis, leading some to speculate that Buffett would consider investing in the sector following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Buffett has been known to invest during difficult periods for the market, famously buying a stake in Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis and in Bank of America when that bank ran into trouble a few years later. Here is history on Buffett’s involvement with banks and current holdings in his investment portfolio, via his firm Berkshire Hathaway.

BUFFETT ENGAGEMENTS WITH BANKING

Berkshire began investing in Wells Fargo & Co. in 1989, building an eventual $32-billion stake, but exited that stake in the first quarter of 2022 amid a series of scandals for the bank.

Berkshire injected $5 billion into Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in September 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis in a vote of confidence for the Wall Street bank. The investment gave Berkshire preferred stock that paid a 10% along with warrants to pay $5 billion for 43.5 million Goldman shares at $115 each.

Berkshire invested another $5 billion in Bank of America in August 2011, when investors feared that the bank could run short of capital because of losses from litigation and its mortgage business following the disastrous acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp.

That investment gave Berkshire preferred stock with a 6% dividend and warrants to pay $5 billion for 700 million Bank of America shares at $7.14 each; Berkshire later made a $11.5 billion profit on that investment in 2017, not including the dividend payouts.

The following are Berkshire’s disclosed holdings in U.S.-listed banks and financial services companies as of Dec. 31, 2022:

Ally Financial Inc.  –  $729 million

American Express Co.  –  $22.4 billion

Aon Plc  –  $1.32 billion

Bank of America Corp.  –  $34.2 billion

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.  –  $1.15 billion

Citigroup Inc.  –  $2.5 billion

Globe Life Inc.  –   $766 million

Jefferies Financial Group   –  $15 million

Markel Corp.  –   $616 million

Marsh & McLennan Cos.  –  $67 million

MasterCard Inc.  –   $1.39 billion

Moody’s Corp.  –  $6.87 billion

Nu Holdings Ltd.  –   $436 million

US Bancorp  –   $291 million

Visa Inc.  –   $1.72 billion

OTHER MATTERS

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is listed as trustee under an automatic shelf registration that allows Berkshire to periodically sell debt securities. Berkshire owns about 20% of American Express Co. It has an agreement with the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep the stake passive, meaning Berkshire will not seek to influence how the company operates, an agreement dating from 1995.

Berkshire has financial services investments in other countries. They include stakes in Brazilian digital lender Nubank, whose U.S.-listed shares are known as Nu Holdings, and more than 5% stakes in five Japanese trading houses: Itochu Corp., Marubeni Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Corp.


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