Warren Buffett makes the announcement from his shareholder letter true: his investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway has continued to increase her participation in the five largest listed trading houses in Japan – the shares react positively.
• Berkshire Hathaway increases his investments in Japan’s five largest trading houses
• Buffett implements his promise from the shareholder letter
• Shares of the Japanese trade giants react positively
For the first time, the star investor targeted the five largest Japanese trading houses Mitsubishi, Mitsui, ITochu, Marubeni and Sumitomo in 2019 – since then the bet on the listed Japanese companies has proven to be extremely successful. At the time, the goal was a long -term participation in “Sogo Shosha”, as Japan’s five largest trading companies are called – and the promise kept Buffett by expanding participation in the following years. Now the Buffett-Holding Berkshire Hathaway increased again.
Share share of “Sogo Shosha” further expanded
As can be seen from documents that the National Dom Company (Nico), a hedge fund subsidiary of Berkshire, submitted to the Japanese Ministry of Finance, has further expanded its shares in the five largest trading houses in Japan and is now approaching the ten percent mark with its investments in the companies.
Buffett thus makes his announcement from the latest shareholders’ letter: “Over time, Berkshire’s participation in all five companies will probably increase something,” said Buffett in the letter to the shareholders, after the five Japanese corporate giants agreed to loosen the borders for Berkshires under 10 percent, according to “Investing”. Until February, Berkshire had taken $ 13.8 billion to acquire shares in the Japanese trading houses. The dividend revenue from these investments alone had estimated Buffett as part of his shareholder letter for 2025 to $ 812 million.
Shares react positively
On the market, the continued support from the US star investor was well received – the shares of the five trading houses went out of the trade with profits. Mitsui title increased 1.47 percent to 2,804 JPY in Japan, for Sumitomo shares it was 2.31 percent to 3,505 JPY, shares from Itochu improved in Japan by 1.62 percent to 6,945 JPY, while Mitsubishi Corp with an increase of 2.646 JPY went out of sale and Marubeni shares 1.63 percent higher at 2,439 JPY.
The B Berkshire Hathaway B-share, meanwhile, at times gains $ 523.18 at NYSE trading.
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