While out touting the latest quarterly numbers at Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire investor Warren Buffett stated that he had no plans to buy or sell shares of anything simply because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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| | Good morning. While out touting the latest quarterly numbers at Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire investor Warren Buffett stated that he had no plans to buy or sell shares of anything simply because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Of course, Buffett is sitting on over $100 billion in cash at the moment, so a market downturn would allow him to buy up some great companies at more reasonable prices. We'll be watching Buffett's actions, but appreciate his soothing words during this trying time for stocks.
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In February, he has bought in 50,000 share increments on 13 different trading days. That's a total of 650,000 shares. Each daily buy of this nature costs just over $1.3 million.
Insider data shows these buys are dwarfing all prior buys and sells in the past few years at the company.
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The bet, expiring in 38 days, is that shares will head higher. As shares are around $69.50, the bet is almost at-the-money, and could move dollar-for-dollar higher with shares.
The buyer of the option paid about $2.71 per contract, so shares would need to get over $72.70 at expiration for the buyer to profit.
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