GuruFocus Contest: What Did Warren Buffett Buy For Berkshire Hathaway?

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Aug 04, 2009
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In less than two weeks Warren Buffett will report end of 2Q09 portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway. As a tradition We are hosting a quarterly contest, asking our users to name the stocks Warren Buffett bought during 2Q09.


We would like to invite everyone to participate in this contest. The winners will each win a copy of great investment book selecting from this list:


• Joel Greenblatt: The little Book that Beat the Market

• Joel Greenblatt: You Can be a Stock Market Genius

• Benjamin Graham: The Intelligent Investor

• Martin Whitman: The Aggressive Conservative Investor

• Peter Lynch: Beating the Street

• Peter Lynch: One Up on Wall Street

• David Dreman: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

• Mohnish Pabrai: Dhandho Investor


Registered users may participate this contest by entering up to 3 stock symbols into the comment area of this post. Also state briefly the reasons for your guesses. If more than 3 symbols are entered, only the first three will be counted. The deadline for this contest will be when Warren Buffett releases information of Berkshire 's holdings, which will be in two weeks. Write your answer to the comment area. If you are not registered, you need to register to participate.


After the contest, we will announce two winners. The prize book will be sent to winner directly from Amazon. We will host the contest again next quarter, so everyone will have another chance to win, whether or not you won this time.


Make sure you do your homework! Good luck!