The first time I bought Intuitive Surgical Inc (NASDAQ: ISRG) I paid around $7 per share and that is about the lowest point since it went public. Those shares have been sitting in our portfolio as our largest position and our best investment for quite some time.
ISRG makes computer assisted robotic surgical equipment to assist doctors in a growing range of less invasive procedures.
The stock closed yesterday at $214.80. I have been tempted to buy more sh...
Billionaire Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of our age, today gave free advice to people worried about the economy: buy stocks. Not only is he adding equities to his personal account but they are -- get this -- American stocks. In this day and age when people are diversifying their holdings between the mattress and a safe buried in their backyard, this is a shocking view.
Writing in today's New York Times, the Oracle of Omaha, pointed out quite accurately that stocks are a good ...
My colleague (sort of) James Cramer has suddenly turned into a giant, growling bear. He has been moving in that direction for a few months and now he thinks we all should go into hibernation for five years. He is so wrong!
First of all, it is never a good idea to make decisions while you are in panic mode. Second, Jim's guidance is moving with the market so he is not making any serious prognostication, ju
There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.
The market is bouncing around with every bit of news leaked from the Congress as well as company warnings and Federal reports. 'My pal Warren' is frequently being asked his opinion about the stock market and his 'stock answer' is that he ignores the overall market and its daily gyrations and focuses on individual investments and price (value).
Buffett drew plenty of attention this week when he invested $3 billion dollars in General Electric (NYSE: GE) preferred shares s...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A) with Warren Buffett at the helm has one of the greatest financial combinations investors have ever seen. The shares of the once-wheezing textile-maker-turned-investment-vehicle doubled over the past 10 years, while the broad Standard &Poor’s 500 Index returned only 18% during the same period. In the process, Buffett became the richest man on the planet, with a net worth of about $62 billion, Forbes magazine reported back in March.
Since then, however, Berkshire Hathaway’s shares have plunged 23% - the "Class A" shares closed Friday at $116,650 each, down fr
The following two-part article puts forth ten stock ideas that I believe would be better off in your investment portfolio than one comprised primarily of Certificates of Deposits (CDs) or bonds, or even government treasuries. This is not to say that these do not have value or offer some level of security, but they are long term losers.
A basket of high yielding-high quality stocks can offer a higher return
Over the summer, my twelve-year-old son proclaimed that he was going to be the world's first zillionair! I had to explain to him that if he achieved that lofty goal he would be the only one because that is more capital than exists today; unless he meant Zimbabwean dollars. I suggested that long before he owned the whole planet there might be a few objections here and there.
This got me thinking about my pal Warren, a frequent topic of conversation in business and investme...
Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back from yesterday's poor showing. It ended the trading day at 11,397.56, that's plus 266.48(+2.39%) returning more than it had lost only 24 hours ago.
There are plenty of prognosticators explaining why this happened and so I am not going to join the crowd this afternoon with my own version. Leave it to say we are i
Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back from yesterday's poor showing. It ended the trading day at 11,397.56, that's plus 266.48(+2.39%) returning more than it had lost only 24 hours ago.
There are plenty of prognosticators explaining why this happened and so I am not going to join the crowd this afternoon with my own version. Leave it to say we are i
Of all of the advantages that Berkshire Hathaway has going for it, the most obvious begins with two men: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Without them, Berkshire would probably be a now-defunct textile mill. With them, it's been an absolute powerhouse of an investment … which goes to show: We should absolutely demand fantastic management.
While Berkshire Hathaway [BRKA] (BRK.A) may need to swim upstream in order to outperform by any significant margin, given its huge relative out-performance in the last eighteen months or so, the bear case seems more of a marketing strategy for a hedge fund manager than a well-reasoned investment strategy.
Since one of the highlights underpinning Mr. Kass's case seems to be the the supposed under-performance of four major holdings [Coca-Cola Co. (KO), Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT), and American Express Co. (AXP)], it would seem appropriate to dig a bit deeper into his claims
The stock market was down today and the financial sector was hit as hard as anything else. These are the days you want to have your watch-list ready or perhaps your stock alerts triggered. I have been watching Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) for quite some time. Today at $27.00 I received an alert and decided to buy some.
As a value investor I am seeking not to just make a profit but to have as large a margin of safety as possible. That means I do not want to just buy a disco
After five months of tracking my 2008 picks, it is rewarding to finally have a breakthrough -- topping the three major stock indices and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) too. It has been painful to have to report each month that I was being bested. However, since I have not seen anything contradicting m
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Billionaire Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of our age, today gave free advice to people worried about the economy: 
My colleague (sort of) James Cramer has suddenly turned into a giant, growling bear. He has been moving in that direction for a few months and now he thinks we all should go into hibernation for five years. He is so wrong! 
There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.
The market is bouncing around with every bit of news leaked from the Congress as well as company warnings and Federal reports. 'My pal Warren' is frequently being asked his opinion about the stock market and his 'stock answer' is that he ignores the overall market and its daily gyrations and focuses on individual investments and price (value).
he same period. In the process, Buffett became the richest man on the planet, with a net worth of about $62 billion, Forbes magazine reported back in March.
The following two-part article puts forth ten stock ideas that I believe would be better off in your investment portfolio than one comprised primarily of Certificates of Deposits (CDs) or bonds, or even government treasuries. This is not to say that these do not have value or offer some level of security, but they are long term losers.
Over the summer, my twelve-year-old son proclaimed that he was going to be the world's first zillionair! I had to explain to him that if he achieved that lofty goal he would be the only one because that is more capital than exists today; unless he meant Zimbabwean dollars. I suggested that long before he owned the whole planet there might be a few objections here and there.
Today the 
After five months of tracking my 2008 picks, it is rewarding to finally have a breakthrough -- topping the three major stock indices and 
