Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Discloses 10% Stake In Burlington Northern
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has disclosed a greater than 10% stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI). Through three insurance subsidiaries (Columbia, National Indemnity, and National Fire & Marine) Berkshire beneficially owns 39,027,430 shares of Burlington Northern common stock according to an SEC filing made on Friday, April 6, 2007.
Berkshire’s most recent reported purchase was made on Thursday, April 5th, and consisted of 1,219,000 shares purchased at $81.18 each.
Upon presenting the familiar table of Berkshire’s major investment in his most recent letter to shareholders, Buffett wrote:
“We show below our common stock investments. With two exceptions, those that had a market value of more than $700 million at the end of 2006 are itemized. We don’t itemize the securities referred to, which have a market value of $1.9 billion, because we continue to buy them. I could, of course, tell you their names. But then I would have to kill you.”
It appears that Burlington Northern was one of the two large positions...