巴菲特致股东的信原文精读Day801:
原文:For nearly three decades, the initial paragraph of Buffett’s annual letter featured the percentage change in Berkshire’s per-share book value. It’s now time to abandon that practice.
By 2018,the annual change in Berkshire’s book value lost the relevance it once had. Three circumstances have made that so. First, Berkshire has gradually morphed from a company whose assets are concentrated in marketable stocks into one whose major value resides in operating businesses.
Second, while our equity holdings are valued at market prices, accounting rules require our collection of operating companies to be included in book value at an amount far below their current value, a mismark that has grown in recent years.(2018)
释义:1.“relevance”意为“实际意义”;
2.“morphed”意为“转变”;
3.“mismark”意为“标记错误”。
精译:近三十年来,巴菲特致股东信的首页,始终以伯克希尔每股账面价值的百分比变动开篇。如今,是时候摒弃这一做法了。
截至2018年,伯克希尔账面价值的年度变化已失去其曾经的意义,原因有三:其一,伯克希尔已逐渐从资产集中于上市股票的公司,转型为主要价值依托于经营业务的企业;
其二,尽管我们持有的股票按市价估值,但根据会计准则要求,我们旗下经营的一系列公司,其记录的账面价值远低于其当前价值。近年来,二者的差距持续扩大。(2018年)
心得:长期以来,巴菲特致股东的信会在首页列出三组数据:伯克希尔每股账面价值的增长率、伯克希尔每股市值的增长率、标普500指数的增长率(含股息)。从2019年起,仅保留了后面的两组数据。原因在于,伯克希尔的重心越来越倾向于企业经营,旗下子公司的账面价值与实际价值相去甚远,每股账面价值的增长已无法作为衡量伯克希尔实际经营绩效的参考。
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