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In 2018: as a consequence of its large

cash balance and the stock not dipping


frequently under 1.20x its book value,
Berkshire is now permitted to "repurchase
shares any time that Warren Buffett,
Berkshire’s Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer, and Charles Munger, Vice

In this section, I will provide three reasons Also, the low valuation makes the stock
a lot more interesting to invest in. I am
why Berkshire could be an interesting
not only talking about the valuation of
investment at this moment: undervaluation, the holding (in terms of book-to-market
a possible increase in buybacks and a shift in ratio), but also about the valuation of
the underlying investments. As you can
portfolio strategy.
see below, the portfolio which Berkshire
First, it is remarkable that Berkshire is holding is currently valued at a free
Hathaway is currently being valued at cash flow yield (operating cash flow -
its lowest valuation since CAPEX/market cap) of 10.46%, which is

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