Wallace Weitz Buys Liberty Media Corp., Apollo Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sells Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup Inc., Carter's Inc.

May 09, 2008

Like many other value investors, Wallace Weitz has been hurt by the financial meltdowns. Weitz is known as "the Other Oricle of Omaha". These are his buys and sells during the first quarter of 2008. Wallace Weitz owns 55 stocks with a total value of $3.4 billion.

Wallace Weitz buys Liberty Media Corp. Series A, Apollo Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Google Inc., United States Cellular Corp, Cadbury Schweppes Public Ltd. Company, Willis Group Holdings Ltd., sells BIMINI CAPITAL MGMT INC A, Citigroup Inc., Carter's Inc., TRUEBLUE INC COM during the 3-months ended 03/31/2008, according to the most recent filings of his investment company, Weitz Wallace R & Co. Wallace Weitz owns 55 stocks with a total value of $3.4 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells.

New Purchases: APOL, CSG, GOOG, LMDIA, MSFT, NWS-A, USM, WSH,

Added Positions: AXP, BBBY, BECN, CMCSA, DELL, EXP, IACI, MHK, MLM, UNH, WLP,

Reduced Positions: COV, FRE, LEAP, SIX, WFC, WMT,

Sold Out: C, CRI, TBI,

For the details of 's stock buys and sells, go to http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=Wallace+Weitz

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