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Supply chain problems crimp profit at Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway; cash sets record

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It ended September with $149.2 billion of cash and equivalents.\n\"I sure hope there will be more buybacks, because there's not much evidence of capital being put to work,\" said Jim Shanahan, an Edward Jones & Co analyst who rates Berkshire a \"buy.\"\nDISRUPTIONS\nThird-quarter operating profit rose to $6.47 billion, or about $4,331 per Class A share, from $5.48 billion, or about $3,488 per share, a year earlier.\nAnalysts on average forecast $4,493 per share, according to Refinitiv I/B/E/S.\nNet income fell to $10.3 billion, or $6,882 per Class A share, from $30.1 billion. Buffett believes the huge quarterly swings in net results are usually meaningless, and result from accounting rules he doesn't control.\nBerkshire said supply chain disruptions have boosted prices for materials and freight, forcing businesses such as Clayton Homes mobile homes and Acme bricks to raise prices - and caused a shortage of truck drivers at McLane grocery distribution.\nIt said the disruptions also significantly reduced new vehicle sales at its auto dealer unit and boosted costs for its consumer products businesses, though profit is rising from Forest River RVs, Brooks running shoes and Duracell batteries.\nIn part because of Delta and the disruptions, some caused bylabor shortages, U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2% annualized rate in the third quarter according to the government advance estimate, down from 6.7% in the second quarter.\n\"The supply chain creates choke points that inevitably will affect loads at Berkshire's railroad, and is creating shortages in its housing businesses,\" said Tom Russo, a partner at Gardner Russo & Quinn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which has owned Berkshire stock since 1982.\nCATASTROPHE LOSSES\nResults reflected what analyst Shanahan called an \"extraordinarily high\" $2.2 billion of catastrophe losses, mainly from Ida and flooding, though other insurers also suffered large losses.\nGeico alone lost $289 million pretax from underwriting, hurt by Ida and an increase in vehicle crashes.\nIn contrast, BNSF managed to boost profit 14% to $1.54 billion, as higher volumes in industrial goods and coal offset lower grain exports.\nBuffett's failure to buy more stocks and companies has disappointed some investors and analysts.\nIt stems in part from how special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), which take private companies public, are driving up prices of acquisition targets.\n\"It's a killer,\" Buffettsaidat Berkshire's annual meeting on May 1.\nCFRA Research analyst Seifert said Berkshire won't be sidelined forever, and might in 2022 eye acquisitions in sectors it has long favored, including industrial and consumer staples.\n\"Given the number of high-profile misses, such as Precision Castparts and Kraft Heinz, one can understand some of Berkshire's reticence,\" she said, referring to the aircraft parts maker and food company.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":444,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":4,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"hasMoreComment":false,"orderType":2}