Warren Buffett spent more than $350 million to buy these stocks in the past week
By Tomi Kilgore
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway now owns roughly 30% of Liberty SiriusXM shares outstanding
Warren Buffett has been busy during a relatively quiet week, as he has been bulking up his stake on Liberty SiriusXM tracking stocks.
In Form 4 filings with the US. Securities and Exchange Commission over the past week, Buffett's investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B) (BRK.A), disclosed that it paid about $257.95 million to buy 8.9 million Liberty SiriusXM Series C stock (LSXMK) at a weighted-average price of $29.06.
Berkshire also disclosed paying $110.32 million to buy 3.8 million shares of Liberty Sirius XM Series A stock (LSXMA) at an average price of $29.
The Series A shares have voting rights, but the Series C shares don't.
In total, Berkshire bought 12.68 million shares for $368.3 million.
Buffett now owns about 30% of Liberty SiriusXM's outstanding shares.
The Series A shares have gained 3.3% this week through Thursday and the Series C shares have advanced 3.4%. In comparison, the S&P 500 index SPX has edged up 0.4% this week.
Liberty SiriusXM is basically a tracking stock of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI), the subscription-based satellite-radio service.
Liberty SiriusXM's "business" is that it owns a little more than 80% of Sirius XM, and about $1.7 billion of Sirius XM's estimated net liabilities, which includes convertible debt. Therefore, it is seen as trading at a discount to Sirius XM shares.
In Berkshire's latest 13-F filing of its equity holdings, the company said it owned 40.2 million shares of Sirius XM as of Dec. 31. At the time, it was valued at $221.1 million.
Year to date, Sirius XM's stock has tumbled 29.1%, while Berkshire's Class B stock has rallied 17.9% and the S&P 500 has gained 10.2%.
-Tomi Kilgore
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