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    Corporate Valuation Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter’s 1. Berkshire brought expertise in finding the right financing structure and operational and strategy related to the retail and manufacturing industry. Berkshire managers believed that the equity portion of a capital structure should be at least 25% to order to achieve the desired results as far as return and to show true commitment to the lending base. When determining the capital structure‚ they also seriously

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    AUGUST 19‚ 2011 MALCOLM BAKER JAMES QUINN Berrkshire e Partne ers: Bid dding ffor Cartter’s In the spring of o 2001‚ Bostton-based priivate equity firm Berkshiire Partners w was considerring a levera aged buyout (LBO) of the William Cartter Co.‚ a lead ding producerr of infant‚ baaby‚ and child dren’s apparrel in the Un nited States. Berkshire B Parrtners‚ which h had extensiive experiencce investing iin the retail and manufaccturing sectorrs‚ was initia ally drawn to o Carter’s beccause of the sstrong

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    highs so it is more difficult to find intrinsic value in a company. As Mr. Buffet many times has said there needs to be intricsic value when investing which he defines as the present value of future expected performance. This is one of the reasons Berkshire Hathaway saw a $2.55 billion gain in their market value the day of acquiring PacifiCorp. Many times you see the firm buying out the company especially when paying a premium go down the day they acquire a company. However‚ investors did their own

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    cash flow and a very good future. Mr. Berkshire Hathaway’s business model was to buy large insurance companies that ensured a stabilized cash-float‚ but the purchase of BNSF may have seemed to differ from his usual business model‚ but the outcome was the same‚ with having a stabilized cash-float. With the oil boom and increase in agriculture‚ and industrial shipments‚ this made BNSF a perfect financial asset for Mr. Berkshire Hathaway. What does Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of BNSF Railroad say

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    important to the success of Berkshire Hathaway because Buffet’s five principles were the set of responses and patterns that Berkshire used to obtain their success. Buffet’s investment strategy‚ which consisted of five principles‚ can easily be observed throughout Berkshire Hathaway’s decision-making process. Buffet’s ability to evaluate a business while ignoring trends‚ making niche investments‚ and requiring key managers to be substantial stakeholders is the criteria that Berkshire Hathaway uses in their

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    Berkshire Threaded FastenersBerkshire Threaded Fasteners Company has recently lost their president‚ John Magers. The resulting appointment of his inexperienced son Joe Magers has lead to the company ’s loss of confidence. Brandon Cook is the recently appointed general manger who was hired to turn the company around after a loss of $70‚000 in a good business year. As a member of an outside consulting firm I have been called in to give advice on the problems the company is facing. The time period has

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    GEICO announced plans to purchase several million shares of its outstanding common stock for $60 per share. Among GEICO’s largest stockholders was Berkshire Hathaway‚ Inc.‚ an investment company. Executives of the two companies decided that Berkshire would tender approximately 350‚000 if its GEICO shares in the stock buyback plan‚ which would allow Berkshire to treat the transaction as a proportionate redemption. In a proportionate redemption‚ the percentage equity interest of on company in a second

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    Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to: William Cochran from: subject: Pacificorp Acquistion analysis and recommendation date: The following memo analyzes MidAmerican’s potential acquisition of PacifiCorp. Contents included involve a financial analysis‚ qualitative analysis‚ valuation‚ and acquisition recommendation. After careful review‚ MidAmerican should acquire PacifiCorp at the current offering price of $9.4 billion ($5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in attached liabilities and preferred

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    Introduction Warren E. Buffett‚ the chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway (BH)‚ is the world’s greatest investor of the current era. From 1965 to 2007‚ BH has compounded annual gain of 20.3% while S&P has 9.3% (Berkshire Hathaway Inc.‚ 2009). Most investors get normal returns and believe the market is in semi strong form. However Buffett believes the market is inefficient and acts on his own investment philosophy. This report will analysis BH’s acquisition of PacifiCorp‚ evaluate Buffett’s performance

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    Individual Assignment BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY Assignment Report Submitted by: Sudipt Tewari G13051 ~ Submitted to Prof. A. Kanagaraj In partial completion of Investments course Date of submission –April 20th‚ 2014 Case Summary: Berkshire Hathaway‚ Inc.’s chairman and CEO Warren Buffett‚ is the world’s third richest man. He invested in Berkshire Hathaway in 1962‚ and by 1963‚ Buffett was Berkshire’s largest shareholder. Buffett started purchasing other businesses

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