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To: Richard Forsythe who wrote (864)	7/30/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 1652

The only spike I remember was around the release of the annual report. I wonder if we will spike this time around... I hope so. BRK is in danger of replacing CRUS as the dog stock in my portfolio (and thats saying something...)

To: Richard Forsythe who wrote (864)	7/30/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Richard Forsythe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1652

Here's an interesting metric. Institutional holdings of BRK seem to be around 15% right now -- 230,000 A share-equivalents. Before the merger, institutions owned 5% of BRK. Assuming that there has not been a big institutional shift toward BRK, it is possible that the ownership percentage will fall to, say, 7%. That means that there are another 110,000 A shares, or 3.3m B shares, to be sold. That's rather a lot when B shares trade 15-20,000 a day! Can anyone confirm the institutional selling theory? Richard