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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold $ 29 million in stock at Liberty Global. The shares of the video, broadband and communications company are underperforming the S&P 500.
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Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire Hathaway
Trimmed its investment in Class A shares
Liberty global,
A video, broadband and communications company.
Berkshire Hathaway (ticker:
BRKb
) 1.3 million Class A Liberty Global (LBTYA) sold for $ 29 million on September 4, with an average price of $ 22.31 per share. According to a form Buffett’s firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Berkshire Hathaway now holds 18 million Class A shares of Liberty Global, whose brands include Virgin Media and Telnet.
As of June 30, Buffett’s firm owns 7.3 million owners of Class C shares of Liberty Global, which trade under the ticker LBTYK and are nonvoting. Class A shares carry one vote each.
Class A shares outperformed in 2020, while Class A shares declined by 5.1% to a 2.6% loss year.
S&P 500 Index,
In comparison, to date it has gained 3.4% year.
Both stocks have been weakening the broader market index in recent years. Liberty Global Class A shares gained 17.2% in 2017, while Class C shares gained 13.9% and the S&P 500 gained 19.4%. In 2018, Class A shares declined 40%, Class C shares 39%, while the index slipped 6.2%. Last year, Class A shares rose 6.6%, Class C shares rose 5.6% and the S&P 500 rose 28.9%.
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