1.實際價值才是王道
In the next section, I would like to say a few words about the often mentioned the concept of the real value of a during corporate mergers and acquisitions and equity investments, it is important but difficult to clearly defined criteria in the last four years, the annual report, that is, assuming that the company, we provide a table that we think can be most able to estimate the real value of Berkshire, just updated information table artificial General Re"s figures added since the year the outset we have, the figures of the first column on our behalf has the per share amount of investment (including cash and cash equivalents, net of securities held by the Finance unit), and the second column is the per share inafter deducting interest and operating expenses, Berkshire from the business interests of the industry (but before income tax and purchase accounting adjustments) and, of course, the latter has been deducted from the first column of the investment contribution dividend income, interest income and capital gains, in fact, from this table can be seen if Berkshire is split into two parts, then what would become of the result would be tantamount to an investment position held by the holding company, as well as another operating all of our businesses and bearing all the cause of corporate costs.
——摘自1999年巴菲特寫給全體股東的年報
譯文
在接下來的這一部分裏,我要說說經常被提及的有關實際價值的概念。可以說,這是一個投資者在進行企業並購業務或者進行股票投資時,非常重要且又很難清晰界定的標準。在過去四年的投資年報中,我們提供了我們認為最能夠對伯克希爾公司實際價值進行有效評估的一張表,而在今年最新更新的報表中,我們采取一定的方式將通用在保險公司的數據加入到表中,換言之,就是假設該公司自年度一開始就被伯克希爾所擁有,表中第一欄的數字代表我們擁有每股的投資金額,其中包括現金和現金等價物,以及扣除財務金融單位持有的證券;第二欄則是每股在扣除利息與營業費用之後,伯克希爾來自本業的營業利益,而需要說明的一點是,後者是已經扣除了所有來自第一欄投資所貢獻的股利利息收入以及所得的資本利得。事實上,從該表中可以很清楚地看出,如果伯克希爾被分成兩個部分,最終的結果相當於一家持有伯克希爾投資部位的控股公司,以及另外一家經營所有業務且承擔成本盈虧的營利企業。
投資解讀
1969年7月20日,美國宇航員阿姆斯特朗第一個踏上月球,他還把美國國旗插上了月球——人類首次登月成功。自此,整個美國民眾的社會情緒開始走高,同時經濟增長率也出奇的高漲,致使股市極其繁榮,整個華爾街進入了一段最為瘋狂的投機時代。在這種情況下,一些公司處心積慮,利用兼並一些低市盈率的公司來製造每股贏利大幅增長的假象,而大批股民則被這些假象所蒙蔽。