positiveLetter2013conf:medium
2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“CORT and XTRA are leaders in their industries as well. And Jeff Pederson and Bill Franz will keep them on top.”
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$CORT14 mentions across the corpus · positive 7 · negative 1 · neutral 6 · historical 0
positiveLetter2010conf:high
2010 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“CORT experienced a pickup in business as the year progressed and also significantly tightened its operations. The combination increased its pre-tax results from a loss of $3 million in 2009 to $18 mil”
neutralLetter2009conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2009
“(3) CORT Business Services Corporation ("CORT"), headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia and engaged principally in the furniture rental business”
negativeLetter2009conf:high
2009 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The table also illustrates how severely our furniture (CORT) and trailer (XTRA) leasing operations have been hit by the recession.”
neutralLetter2007conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2007
“(3) CORT Business Services Corporation ("CORT"), headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia and engaged principally in the furniture rental business”
positiveLetter2006conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2006
“CORT is a very long-established company that is the country's leader in rentals of furniture”
positiveLetter2006conf:medium
2006 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“We have two leasing operations: CORT (furniture), run by Paul Arnold... CORT's earnings improved significantly last year”
positiveEssay2005conf:high
Wesco 2005 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“Cort Will Be Successful Over Time... we think it'll be successful over time.”
neutralLetter2004conf:medium
2004 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“At CORT (office furniture), earnings remain inadequate, but are trending upward.”
neutralLetter2001conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2001
“Wesco plainly needs more favorable investment opportunities, recognizable as such by its management, preferably in whole companies like CORT”
positiveEssay2000conf:high
Wesco 2000 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“We wouldn't have bought CORT if we didn't like the culture, which resulted from long practice evolution.”
neutralLetter2000conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2000
“Wesco plainly needs more favorable investment opportunities, recognizable as such by its management, preferably in whole companies like CORT”
neutralLetter1999conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 1999
“Wes-FIC made an intracompany loan that funds a large majority of the purchase price of CORT Business Services Corporation”
positiveLetter1999conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 1999
“CORT is a very long established company that is the country's leader in rentals of furniture that lessees have no intention of buying.”