Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)

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Berkshire Hathaway Altman Z-Score: 1.134

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BRK.A Altman Z-Score Rankings

Overall 25th percentile 2661 of 3550
Sector 62nd percentile 152 of 402 in Financial
Industry 87th percentile 10 of 79 in Property & Casualty Insurance

BRK.A Altman Z-Score Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum 1.086 Jun 2009
Maximum 2.001 Dec 2007
Average 1.324

About Altman Z-Score

CAUTION: The Altman Z-Score is meant to be applied only to manufacturing firms that are near bankruptcy. It was not based on a sample including non-manufacturing firms (service firms, banks, etc.). Use it at your own risk with those companies, but beware that bankruptcy probabilities may be misstated.

The Altman Z-Score helps investors to gauge the probability of a company going bankrupt. Generally, firms with a score above 3.00 have a low probability of bankruptcy, and those with a Z-Score of less than 1.81 have a relatively high probability of bankruptcy.

Note that this is a probabilistic model, so it will not classify perfectly.

The score was first published in a 1968 paper by Edward Altman titled "Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy."

Altman re-tested the model in a 2000 paper titled "Predicting financial distress of companies: Revisiting the Z-score and Zeta models". The paper showed that the model still had utility for looking at manufacturers, though the number of misclassifications did increase over time.
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BRK.A News

175-Year Old Paper Quits Daily Publishing
May 25, 2:40PM Investor Place
Buffett's interest in newspapers is an essentially bet on the future of local in an increasingly globalized world. $MEG $BRK.A
about 3 days ago by ivanhoff
Confirmed!! Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Wanted to buy Lehman Brothers http://stks.co/3yYj $BRK.A $BRK.B
about 4 days ago by valuewalk
$BRK-A ... Will Berkshire be a fort in the middle of the upcoming Euro storm?
about 4 days ago by herbsalad
@bman1 // $SPY try watching $BRKA $$
about 5 days ago by WorldJazz59
Warren Buffett’s Bad Bet on Newspapers
May 22, 11:37AM Investor Place
Great point. Uncle Warren (huge Dimon fan) has got to be eyeballing this, no? $BRK.A RT @ThemisSal $JPM 3.7% yield
about 7 days ago by Tropean
10 Wild Facts About World’s First $1B Home
May 21, 10:01AM Investor Place
BP: New Bull Surge Coming
May 19, 9:13PM
Warren Buffett’s Shrewd Bet on Newspapers
May 18, 2:25PM Investor Place
Warren Buffett's #Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A to buy 63 newspapers from Media General for $142M: http://stks.co/3sh2
about 11 days ago by TMXmoney
Newspapers are still the modern day $FB to Warren Buffett. $MEG up 45% after $BRKA/$BRKB buys some Media General publications for $142M.
about 11 days ago by lamonicabuzz
Warren Buffett vs. Gold http://stks.co/3rcZ $BRK.A $BRK.B $GLD $IAU $GDX
about 12 days ago by myplaniq
Wednesday 7atSeven: prior pullbacks, the new cola wars and a new bigger iPhone. http://stks.co/3qf0 $PEP $GM $FB $BRKA $AAPL $GOOG
about 12 days ago by abnormalreturns
Warren Buffett Buys 10 Million Shares General Motors http://stks.co/3qM6 $GM $VIA $BRK.A
about 13 days ago by ycharts
Buffett takes his Chevy to the levy. And wants his MTV? $BRKA/$BRKB discloses new stakes in $GM & $VIAB. $GM up 4% after hours. $VIAB flat.
about 13 days ago by lamonicabuzz
Take heart, $JPM longs. If stock keeps falling, maybe Buffett will soon have another bathtub epiphany & buy big preferred stake. $BRKA $BAC
about 14 days ago by lamonicabuzz
If you missed it: Charlie Munger's interview on Investing, gold, $BRK.A $BRK.B & more http://stks.co/3ohH
about 14 days ago by marketfolly
Monday links: hedge, not a hedge | via @abnormalreturns http://stks.co/3oYT $ZNGA $FB $BRKA $JPM
about 14 days ago by STNet
Monday links: hedge, not a hedge. http://stks.co/3oWg via @abnormalreturns $ZNGA $FB $JPM $BRKA $GXC
about 14 days ago by StockTwits
Monday links: hedge not a hedge, the summer of the bears and television devolution. http://stks.co/3oTG $ZNGA $FB $JPM $BRKA $GXC
about 14 days ago by abnormalreturns
RT @soberlook: The market now views $BRK.A & $JPM as having the same credit risk http://stks.co/3o8C ht @hedgefundinvest
about 14 days ago by StockTwits
Talking Technicals at Harvard | via @allstarcharts http://stks.co/3nZo $AAPL $BAC $BRK.A $FB
about 16 days ago by STNet
Saturday links: a tasty heritage. http://stks.co/3nWK via @abnormalreturns $BRKA $XOM $FB
about 16 days ago by StockTwits
Saturday links: limits on short selling, psychopathic CEOs and why we are wont to brag. http://stks.co/3nVs $BRKA $XOM $FB #longreads
about 16 days ago by abnormalreturns
Anyone want to guess which stock $WPO purchased $30MM of in 1Q12? I'm thinking $BRK.A, the co's investment in $COCO didn't turn out too well
about 19 days ago by PAAResearch
Wednesday links: bird in the hand fallacy, pro forma follies and focused returns. http://stks.co/3jt3 $FB $GS $MS $CHK $IR $AOL $HLF $BRKA
about 19 days ago by abnormalreturns
Some Berkshire $BRK.a Shareholders Getting Sick of Buffett's Politics, More Vote Against Him http://stks.co/3jCc
about 20 days ago by Street_Insider
Can $AAPL just become like $BRK.A and go to $120,000?
about 20 days ago by David_Jones

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