15 mentions across the corpus · positive 8 · negative 1 · neutral 6 · 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)
“Operational execution was strong across the group, and specifically at Precision Castparts, Marmon, IMC, and Lubrizol”
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”
“you made a mistake in 2016 when calculating precision cast parts average amount of future earnings, which resulted in Berkshire overpaying to acquire it”
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”
Morning Session - 2018 Meeting
“precision cast parts isn't doing better on the top or bottom line...Precision's market position is not as strong as it used to be...when Berkshire acquired it”
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”
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“I feel very good about precision cast parts. It is a very long-term business.”
Morning Session - 2016 Meeting
“My first question is about precision cast. As 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 historically ”
Morning Session - 2016 Meeting
“another three or four. of a similar type to precision gas parts where they forever are going to be producing something where quality is enormously important”
Afternoon Session - 2016 Meeting
“the $22 billion portion of the precision cash parts purchased that was accounted for for cash.”
"America's never been greater" | February 29, 2016
“The big addition for this year will be precision cast parts...It didn't close until about a month after the end of the year”
2015 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Next year, I will be discussing the "Powerhouse Six." The newcomer will be Precision Castparts Corp. ("PCC"), a business that we purchased a month ago for more than $32 billion”
2015 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“a full-size model of the world's largest aircraft engine, for which Precision Castparts makes many key components.”