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Berkshire shares hit records as Q4 rally reaches 19%
CNBC reported Berkshire Hathaway Class A and B shares are up 19.1% since Oct. 1, with four straight record closes this week. A Monday 13F is due; 10-Q figures point to more Bank of America sales.
Berkshire Hathaway Class A and Class B shares have each risen 19.1% since Oct. 1, and the stock ended the week with four consecutive record closes, CNBC reported on Friday1.
Class A shares closed at record highs 11 times in that stretch, while the more widely held Class B shares did so 10 times, according to CNBC1.
CNBC said Berkshire’s B shares are 7.5 percentage points ahead of the S&P 500 year to date1.
Berkshire is due to file its third-quarter 13F equity snapshot with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday1.
Numbers in the company’s third-quarter 10-Q, released last Saturday, indicate Berkshire may have continued selling Bank of America stock for a ninth consecutive quarter, CNBC said, citing a $372 million drop in the cost basis of equities grouped as banks, insurance and finance1.
As of June 30, Berkshire held 483.4 million Bank of America shares, now valued at $24.7 billion, its fifth-largest equity position, down 53.2% in share count from just over 1 billion shares on June 30, 2024, before the selling began, CNBC reported1.
The 10-Q also showed $2.2 billion of pretax gains from equity sales; Barron’s, as cited by CNBC, estimated 30 million to 40 million Bank of America shares may have been sold in the quarter, in line with 30.2 million sold in the second quarter1.
Barron’s also suggested Berkshire may have added Alphabet shares, based on a $2.3 billion rise in cost basis for that category, CNBC said; overall third-quarter equity purchases looked to be about $2.4 billion and sales $2.8 billion, excluding Berkshire’s own buybacks1.
In a term sheet filed Friday, Berkshire said it is selling more than 182 billion yen ($1.1 billion) of bonds due 2029 to 2056 at annual rates of 2.6% to 4.6%, CNBC reported, after a 272 billion yen sale in April1.
