neutralInterview2018-05-07conf:high
Criticizing the cryptocurrency craze | May 7, 2018
“we didn't get a chance to ask over the weekend, was one about USG. This is a transaction you've been involved... We bought USG first 18 years ago.”
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USG Corporation
$USG27 mentions across the corpus · positive 2 · negative 10 · neutral 15 · historical 0
negativeInterview2018-05-07conf:high
Criticizing the cryptocurrency craze | May 7, 2018
“we own 30% of USG. The company did not call and say, what do you think of this offer...they did not represent our interest.”
negativeInterview2018-05-03conf:high
Buffett tells CNBC he's boosting Apple stake by $13B | May 3, 2018
“I did want to talk to you about USG because I was surprised to see that Berkshire voted down the idea of the four directors that did not vote with the company on that”
neutralInterview2018-05-03conf:high
Buffett tells CNBC he's boosting Apple stake by $13B | May 3, 2018
“USG has said that it is going to sit down and talk to them. It thinks that the $42 dollars that that Kanaf is offering is not a fair bid.”
neutralLetter2018conf:high
2018 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“43,387,980 USG Corporation .......................... 31.0 836 1,851”
negativeInterview2017-05-08conf:medium
Buying Apple, selling IBM, missing Google | May 8, 2017
“I was a director of U.S. air. It was a really dumb investment on my part.”
negativeMeeting2017-05-06conf:high
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“back in 2001 you made an initial investment in USG shortly before the company declared bankruptcy due to the mounting asbestos liability...USG overall has just been disappointing because the gypson bu”
neutralLetter2016conf:high
2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“43,387,980 USG Corp. ............................................ 29.7 836 1,253”
neutralLetter2014conf:high
2014 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“43,387,980 USG Corporation ............................ 30.0 836 1,214”
neutralMeeting2013-05-04conf:medium
Afternoon Session - 2013 Meeting
“the pending merger of U.S. Air and American, the industry will have consolidated at the point where the top four carriers”
neutralMeeting2013-05-04conf:medium
Afternoon Session - 2013 Meeting
“We bought U.S. Air. I bought that. I was at Garatz with Ed Kaladni, and he explained to me how one of wonderful. The airline was”
positiveInterview2013-03-04conf:high
Buffett on Heinz deal: "We've got a great business" | March 4, 2013
“I was just talking to people at USG, wallboard business is better.”
neutralMeeting2007-05-05conf:high
Morning Session - 2007 Meeting
“We did that on USG. When USG got hammered after they went into bankruptcy, or maybe just before, one large brokerage firm came to us”
negativeEssay2007conf:high
Wesco 2007 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“Should USG [a Berkshire holding] have issued stock to fund a recent acquisition? That was a foolish thing to do”
neutralLetter2007conf:high
2007 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“17,072,192 USG Corp................................................ 17.2 536 611”
positiveEssay2006conf:high
Wesco 2006 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“USG of course was a great success story. It benefited greatly from the great construction boom, and it worked out deal to deal with its asbestos agony. They now have a plan to exit bankruptcy. I think”
neutralLetter2006conf:high
2006 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“USG Corp................................................ 19.0 536 936”
negativeEssay2003conf:high
Wesco 2003 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“Obviously, so far at least, USG has not been one of our happiest moments.”
neutralEssay2003conf:high
Wesco 2003 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“the common stock of USG won't go to zero, but how well it will work out on the plus side”
negativeEssay2002conf:high
Wesco 2002 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“[Our investment in] USG obviously hasn't worked out very well. It wasn't just asbestos -- the market for wallboard went to hell.”
negativeMeeting2001-04-28conf:high
Morning Session - 2001 Meeting
“we have a small amount of money in USG where the subsidiary United States ships has a major asbestos exposure. But that's a very, very minor investment.”
neutralMeeting2001-04-28conf:high
Afternoon Session - 2001 Meeting
“Using USG as a recent example, I believe you bought most of your shares at between $14 and $15 a share.”
neutralMeeting2001-04-28conf:high
Morning Session - 2001 Meeting
“you mentioned the company's investment in USG. I was wondering how the company, how you got comfortable with that as an investment in light of the asbestos exposure.”
negativeEssay2001conf:high
Wesco 2001 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)
“in brake pads or a bit in USG's paste...I regard what's happening to USG as a dishonorable mugging of an honorable place”
negativeMeeting1998-05-04conf:medium
Afternoon Session - 1998 Meeting
“When we bought our stock, U.S. Air was selling at $50 a share...we never bought it...all the way down to four.”
neutralLetter1995conf:high
1995 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“USAir Group, Inc. .............. 9 1/4% 1989 358 215”
neutralLetter1994conf:medium
1994 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Charlie and I will not stand for reelection to USAir's board at the upcoming annual meeting.”