10 mentions across the corpus · positive 4 · negative 1 · neutral 5 · historical 0
2025 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter (Greg Abel)
“Precision Castparts' response to a major fire at its Jenkintown, Pennsylvania facility showed Berkshire at its best... Mark Donegan, Precision Castparts' CEO, and his team quickly redistributed produc”
2025 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter (Greg Abel)
“The Precision Castparts team has now worked through the most challenging part of that period. Air travel has recovered, aircraft orders have resumed, and demand for the company's components has normal”
2021 Annual Meeting Highlight Reel
“we own precision cast parts which services the air business very so we've we've still got a big investment in air travel”
“you made a mistake in 2016 when calculating precision cast parts average amount of future earnings, which resulted in Berkshire overpaying to acquire it”
“we own precision cast parts, which services the air business very different”
Morning Session - 2019 Meeting
“Precision cast parts pre-taxed profit margins, while perfectly fine relative to American industry as a whole, It continued to be almost 10 percentage points below”
Bill Gates + Warren Buffett + Charlie Rose @ Columbia University 2017 Video (Best Quality)
“you made a huge purchase in 2016 precision was bought in 2016 yeah it was bought 37 billion dollars including debt”
2017 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Precision Castparts, a company built through acquisitions, bought Wilhelm Schulz GmbH... Mark Donegan, CEO of Precision, is an extraordinary manufacturing executive”
Why Precision Castparts is better with Berkshire
“My first question is about precision cast parts. Besides your confidence in its talented CEO, Mark Donegan, what in particular do you like about their business that gave you the confidence to pay a hi”
2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Duracell and Precision Castparts (both bought in 2016) will for the first time contribute a full year's earnings”