# Berkshire Hathaway-- why no analyst info on Yahoo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 28, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955 "2008-05-28T23:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/1 "2008-05-28T23:10:22Z")
I’ve been looking at buying a few BRK-B shares, and I noticed that Yahoo’s finance page for that stock has no analyst info. Anyone know why that would be? It’s a pretty significant stock, and I’ve never seen a stock of that stature that didn’t have analyst opinions in Yahoo finance. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/2 "2008-05-28T23:58:02Z")
Holy crap… did you look at their website? It literally looks like Warren Buffet did it in his pajamas. Knowing Warren Buffet, he probably did. [http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/](http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/3 "2008-05-28T23:59:44Z")
There is for BRK-A, I imagine they would mostly mirror each other? ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/4 "2008-05-29T00:14:21Z")
> [@](#): > > If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above or e-mail us at [berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com](mailto:berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com). However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response. Writes the wealthiest human on earth. YOU FUCKING ROCK, WARREN! Warren was not born a car salesman: [http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html](http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/5 "2008-05-29T00:55:45Z")
[QUOTE=Alex\_Dubinsky] Holy crap… did you look at their website? It literally looks like Warren Buffet did it in his pajamas. Knowing Warren Buffet, he probably did. > **[BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.](https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/)** [/QUOTE] Knowing Warren Buffet, he doesn’t care how his website looks. People are always banging down the door and he doesn’t want to make it any easier for people to invest by silly things like splitting stocks so that regular people can buy them. God bless him. He is one of the only people in the world that can make such a strategy work. The investment world is full of high-powered MBA’s whose primary achievement is beating an index fund 2 out of 5 years (they would have lost against a heroin addict with brain damage that just threw everything into an index fund). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/6 "2008-05-29T01:09:25Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I’ve been looking at buying a few BRK-B shares, and I noticed that Yahoo’s finance page for that stock has no analyst info. Anyone know why that would be? It’s a pretty significant stock, and I’ve never seen a stock of that stature that didn’t have analyst opinions in Yahoo finance. [/QUOTE] I found [this](http://quote.morningstar.com/Quote/Quote.aspx?ticker=BRK.B) at [morningstar.com](http://morningstar.com). The stock closed on 5/28/08 at $4338 a share. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/7 "2008-05-29T01:57:56Z")
[QUOTE=Alex\_Dubinsky] Holy crap… did you look at their website? It literally looks like Warren Buffet did it in his pajamas. Knowing Warren Buffet, he probably did. > **[BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.](https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/)** [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s the most bare bones web site I’ve seen in years! ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/8 "2008-05-29T02:19:48Z")
I live about three quarters of a mile from Warren Buffet. The wealthiest man in the world has lived in the same house since the fifties, and doesn’t even have a fence around his property. We see him pretty often in a small, family owned Italian restaurant not far from where we live, and once in a while we see him at the mall. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/9 "2008-05-29T17:20:44Z")
I think you’ll find a lot of “smart” millionaires and billionaires (ie, not the Britney Spears/Michael Jackson flashy kind) live a relatively modest lifestyle. I’m not saying they don’t have perks, like housekeeping and lawn service and nice vacations, but they live well below their means, considering their net worth. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/10 "2008-05-29T17:23:14Z")
[QUOTE=Alex\_Dubinsky] Holy crap… did you look at their website? It literally looks like Warren Buffet did it in his pajamas. Knowing Warren Buffet, he probably did. > **[BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.](https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/)** [/QUOTE] The best part about the website is the ads. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/11 "2008-05-29T18:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I think you’ll find a lot of “smart” millionaires and billionaires (ie, not the Britney Spears/Michael Jackson flashy kind) live a relatively modest lifestyle. I’m not saying they don’t have perks, like housekeeping and lawn service and nice vacations, but they live well below their means, considering their net worth. [/QUOTE] I agree with what you’re saying, but would it even be possible for Warren Buffet to not live below his means? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/12 "2008-05-29T19:15:33Z")
I haven’t been able to find much. [Here](http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/snapshot.asp?symb=BRKA&sid=817&dist=TQP_Nav_analyst_info.) is what I found for the class A shares. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/13 "2008-05-29T19:25:33Z")
Hey, it’s Berkshire - just buy some. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/14 "2008-05-29T19:31:47Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I agree with what you’re saying, but would it even be possible for Warren Buffet to not live below his means? [/QUOTE] Sure, I heard someone’s got a 10,000 kg sphere of gold sitting around he could buy. He could make an epic model solar system with a few of those. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/15 "2008-05-29T19:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=Manduck] Hey, it’s Berkshire - just buy some. [/QUOTE] It’s up 2% over the last two days. Wish I had already done so… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/16 "2008-05-29T21:39:16Z")
Buffet is not infallible, but darned close. He had a bad year or two when he over-invested in the insurance industry. The share price is intentionally high, because he can’t be bothered with flighty investors buying and selling on a whim. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/17 "2008-05-31T13:04:21Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I agree with what you’re saying, but would it even be possible for Warren Buffet to not live below his means? [/QUOTE] Well, when you’ve got Michael Jackson’s Neverland going into foreclosure, yes, I’m sure if he really wanted to blow it, he could. Houses, fully staffed, in every state, vacation manors abroad, private jets, frivolous purchases. It may take him a few years, but it might be possible. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/18 "2008-05-31T17:43:14Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I agree with what you’re saying, but would it even be possible for Warren Buffet to not live below his means? [/QUOTE] It’s easy to blow through the first billion or two. An enormous yacht or a fully-outfitted 777 runs close to half a billion. I think the Saudi palace cost over a billion. (All of which could be done for less, if you ask me.) But to spend 60 billion is quite a bit more of a challenge, if you don’t just want to keep repeating yourself. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/19 "2008-05-31T18:58:43Z")
He could cut me a check and be done with it in a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berkshire-hathaway-why-no-analyst-info-on-yahoo/450955/20 "2008-06-01T02:04:20Z")
Buffet now gives away much more than he spends on his own. It was such a PITA running the charitable part that he combined his foundation with the Bill And Melinda Gates foundation. Bill and Melinda work full time on the foundations, and Warren doesn’t have to mess with it. The Gateses actually enjoy that kind of work, so everybody’s happy.