Jonawan@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-218 hours agoBillionaire Warren Buffet, major owner of Apple and Coca Cola, steps down as chair of Berkshire Hathawaywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down15
arrow-up1116arrow-down1external-linkBillionaire Warren Buffet, major owner of Apple and Coca Cola, steps down as chair of Berkshire Hathawaywww.theguardian.comJonawan@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-218 hours agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squarepostman@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·edit-24 hours agoI don’t think he’s the “owner” of Apple and Coca-cola. (Edit: I believe the title was edited to include the word ‘major’)
minus-squareTragicNotCute@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·18 hours agoWell he’s the owner in the sense that Berkshire Hathaway owns shares. They do not own all or even most of the shares though. They own 1.56% valued at ~$66B USD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoI love you Lemmy math nerds.
minus-squareDragomus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-217 hours ago(I commented here about numbers for coca-cola shares, but missed you referred to Apple shares, not cocoa-cola)
minus-squareJonawan@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-218 hours agoTrue. But he is one of the largest shareholder of these two companies.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours ago10% of Coke. 1.5% of Apple. Largest owner of Coke maybe but only top ten for Apple. They had about 8% of Apple at one point but reduced their holdings quite a bit a year or two ago.
I don’t think he’s the “owner” of Apple and Coca-cola.
(Edit: I believe the title was edited to include the word ‘major’)
Well he’s the owner in the sense that Berkshire Hathaway owns shares. They do not own all or even most of the shares though.
They own 1.56% valued at ~$66B USD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway
I love you Lemmy math nerds.
(I commented here about numbers for coca-cola shares, but missed you referred to Apple shares, not cocoa-cola)
True. But he is one of the largest shareholder of these two companies.
10% of Coke. 1.5% of Apple. Largest owner of Coke maybe but only top ten for Apple.
They had about 8% of Apple at one point but reduced their holdings quite a bit a year or two ago.