Are you considering selling some of those shares?
Buffett Further Trims Moody’s Stake as Shares Surge 21%
By Dan Reichl - May 1, 2013 5:21 PM PT
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Berkshire sold about 1.75 million shares this week at prices ranging from $59.93 to $60.94 apiece, according to a filing issued yesterday. New York-based Moody’s has advanced 21 percent in 2013.
Moody’s plunged in February when its larger competitor, Standard & Poor’s, said it could face a U.S. lawsuit over inflated mortgage-bond ratings. Buffett, 82, has pared his stake from 48 million shares in 2009. Buffett has said Moody’s didn’t anticipate a slide in housing prices.
“What was once a bulletproof franchise may not be bulletproof,” the billionaire said in a 2010 Bloomberg Television interview. “It’s still quite a franchise.”
Buffett’s firm held 26.7 million Moody’s shares after this week’s transactions, the filing shows. Berkshire, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is still the largest shareholder in Moody’s, the second-biggest provider of credit ratings.
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Hindsight says that this was quite a buy 2/6/2013. Unfortunately I did not pull the "value" trigger.
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