My thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual report and Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders ...
A list of fifteen recent articles including detailed coverage of Berkshire Hathaway's 2023 annual report and Warren Buffett's shareholder letter ...
Progressive resumed aggressive growth in the first quarter while reporting a strong combined ratio. The article briefly discusses GEICO's recent results ...
Both companies posted underwriting profits last year but Progressive grew rapidly while GEICO lost market share ...
Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Report, Liberty SiriusXM, Catastrophic risk, Tesla's lead designer, Ben Graham's summer on a farm, Income taxes, Interviews of Bruce Berkowitz and Howard Marks, and more ...
Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price of ceding market share that will be costly to regain in the future ...
The auto insurer continues to add customers but posted disappointing results in the second quarter due to catastrophe losses and inadequate pricing ...
Progressive's Q1 results were poorly received. Does GEICO have an opportunity to reverse market share losses while returning to underwriting profitability? ...
A closer look at GEICO, Repurchases, and Greg Abel's BHE sale ...
It is no accident that the rapid rise in living standards over the past century has coincided with tremendous technological progress throughout the economy. At a fundamental level, rising living standards require the economy to generate an ever-increasing supply of ...
The Progressive Corporation has offered insurance products to consumers since 1937 and is currently estimated to be the fourth largest private passenger automobile insurer in the United States. Progressive trails State Farm, GEICO, and Allstate and has overall market share ...
J.D. Power released its 2010 U.S. National Auto Insurance Study (pdf) today and found that overall consumer satisfaction with insurance companies declined in 2010 after peaking in 2009. Overall satisfaction averages 777 on a 1,000 point scale which represents a ...
Berkshire Hathaway has been attracting more analyst coverage in recent weeks due to the company’s inclusion in the Standard & Poor’s 500 and expanded institutional interest due to factors such as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe acquisition. Earlier this week, ...
Last week, we took a brief look at Berkshire Hathaway’s loss estimation accuracy over the past ten years. As we noted in the article, the process of estimating the ultimate losses resulting from an insurance company’s business is one of ...
It's war on the television screen. On one side you have GEICO's Gecko and the famously maligned Caveman. On the other side is Flo, the hyper enthusiastic Progressive sales clerk. It's hard to escape these characters during sporting events or ...