Warren Buffett and Greg Abel Walkthrough The annual shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2025.
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Retail investors entered more than 24 million US dollars Berkshire HathawayClass B of class B on Monday and proves that it is not just a Warren Buffett -Kult shares and offers a vote of trust in the upcoming CEO Greg Abel.
During the session, everyday retailers sent the balance in Berkshire B for the balance of Berkshire and, according to Vanda Research, marked the highest sum of the net inflows of the share since 2016.
The shares decreased by more than 5% for their most third -party session in the last half -tenth on Monday when Buffett shocked the investment world on Saturday with his announcement that he intended to leave the role of the managing director at the end of the year, and Abel started to take on the reins.
Buffett's first announcement came when tens of thousands of shareholders flocked to Omaha for the annual meeting, which has become a tradition over Buffett's six decades that solved the extensive conglomerate. The shareholders adore the “Oracle of Omaha”, whereby the participants are waiting to buy a plush toy from him with their similarity and their waiting in long snakes.
“I think the time is when Greg should be Chief Executive Officers of the company at the end of the year,” said Buffett at the end of the question and answer event on Saturday with the shareholders.
Buffett is considered one of the most successful supporters of investing-especially by a disciplined and value-oriented lens-for everyday people. The tributaries on Monday can surprise some market observers because conventional wisdom would indicate that Mama-and-pop dealers would be restless with the long-time company manager who wrote back.
However, the net inflows on Monday were more than three times as big as last Friday, which underlines the increase in interest in the share according to the news. It was also the fourth largest one -day net traffic service for the share to which Vanda started collecting data in 2014.
Berkshire's largest one -day net flows since 2014
| Date | Net flows (in US dollars) |
|---|---|
| 06/24/2016 | 41543725 |
| 08/24/2015 | 26606101 |
| 09.12.2014 | 25732006 |
| 5/5/2025 | 24356196 |
| 1/4/2016 | 22001366 |
Source: Vanda Research
Now the investors are wondering what Berkshire Under Abel comes next, who is unable to choose stocks exceptionally well, the feature that Buffett made the regular Joe investor a rock star. However, they can be appeased with Buffett's comment that he is planning to “hang around” and after the board agreed to keep him as chairman.
Buffett, the Berkshire's largest investor with shares worth more than 160 billion US dollars, also said that he would not sell a single share of the company that he built from a failed textile company in a titanium of $ 1.2 trillion. During the meeting he showered Abel with praise, which may have contributed to alleviating the jitter among the participants.
On May 3, 2025, Warren Buffett carried out a procedure for the annual meeting of the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in Omaha, Nebraska.
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“The decision to keep every share is an economic decision because I think that the prospects of Berkshire under Greg's management will be better,” said the 94-year-old.
Buffett's future has been particularly large over the shareholders since the death of long -time friend and business partner Charlie Munger. In a shareholder letter published in February, he announced that he started running with a stick and that it “didn't take long” before Abel took over the annual memo about writing the annual memo.
Despite the downturn on Monday, the shares in 2025 still rose by more than 13%. The S&P 500This year, Berkshire has fallen by more than 4% under Buffett over the past 60 years.
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Berkshire Hathaway, class B shares
Retail investors who helped on Friday before the meeting to offer the stock up to a record can also be a safe haven in Berkshire if difficult economic times progress. Berkshire has more than 330 billion US dollars in cash, enough to buy all of the S&P 500 immediately except 23 members.
And maybe the little guy Buffett, who has made his greatest purchase in the past, when others are most fearful, will put one last bargain in him before hanging it.