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Ask HN: What will Warren Buffet buy with 125B cash?
- jppope 7y agoOne would hope he'll bail out the airlines that he owns part of... unless of course our government decides to do that for him.
- MR4D 7y agoHe wouldn’t buy them unless he thought the government would bail out the airlines.
- chmaynard 7y agoThat's a great question. Although he has made some really bad investments, his overall record is astonishing if his main objective is maximum return. Some of us have other objectives besides profit, such as investing in renewable energy companies that care about mitigating climate change. I suspect that Buffett doesn't think about that sort of thing too much.
- codingdave 7y agohttps://www.barrons.com/articles/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-solar-power-nv-energy-690-megawatt-51577995149 https://www.barrons.com/articles/warren-buffett-berkshire-ha... You mean, aside from building the largest solar power plant in the USA, and specifically calling out renewables over the last few years as a good area to invest?
- aussiegreenie 7y agoBerkshire Hathaway Energy knows that Renewables both solar and wind are much cheaper than their existing coal plants. They are closing coal plants as quickly as they are allowed. Many PUCs are reluctant to allow too many coal plants to close due to local politics and fears about grid reliability.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoBHE should buy some energy storage from Tesla or BYD (Buffet is a BYD investor).
- spacegod 7y agoA fat chunk of McDonald's or Coca Cola
- tyler666durden 7y agoI think the question is: "What CAN he buy with that amount of cash?"
- znpy 7y agoThe blood of the youngs, to live another 50-75 years.
- stevavoliajvar 7y agoDoes he really have 125B in cash ?
- sloaken 7y agoHe has been sitting on a lot of cash for a while. He expected the market was due for a down turn and made a big shift. You can look up articles. I found one from November saying he was on 128B, a second one in October saying 122B. So I guess between the two he liquidated 6B of investments.
- sunstone 7y agoApparently he also has revenue from operating businesses that he owns.
- magwa101 7y agoMacDonalds.
- slap_shot 7y agoFWIF he's pledged to donate 99% of his wealth upon death. Given that he's 90 years old, I imagine his primary goal with this capital is preservation, not achieving returns in excess of the market.
- pacamara619 7y agoA seat in the Linux Foundation
- thiago_fm 7y agoI don't know why people are asking this again. This 125b cash is from BH, not from himself. He doesn't decide it all alone. If you want you can buy BH stock and follow along and be one of the shareholders. It also isn't 125b cash, but 125b not in stocks, in possibly very liquid investments and well diversified. I doubt it matters what he does with this money, unless you want to do the same. He completely missed the boat on the last ~10 years and I doubt he's the best example nowadays, his company is just very rich because for many decades he got the fundamentals right. You can as well invest like him if you learn what he knows, but I doubt you can get as rich as he did, because he did it in a different time. He'll likely invest in businesses he knows, just like anybody investing should. Possibly brands, he's a big fan of businesses with a good brand and margins, who isn't? :-)
- ksherlock 7y agoLook at the Occidental deal (a few months ago) or the Goldman Sachs deal (2008) for a template. Preferred stock with a fat dividend plus options (warrants) to buy stock in the future.