BRK.B

Here's your chance to finally afford some Berkshire shares (BRK.B) tomorrow.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. says shareholders have approved splitting the company's Class B shares 50-for-1 as part of the company's $26.3 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

The stock split will enable Berkshire to offer even small BNSF shareholders Berkshire stock as part of the acquisition of the nation's second-largest railroad.

The stock split will make Berkshire's Class B stock much more affordable at roughly $67 per share. But the Class A shares, which remain the most expensive U.S. stock at over $100,000, won't be split.

Anyone pick some up? Got filled at $70.77 this morning. Figured this would be a great long term play is someone is looking for something stable.

I dont like that stock at all..

Having a stock split might attract people, but when that fizz is gone you have to see what you are owning and what a reasonable, slow PE is for the company.

I am also not sure if they pay a dividend, I would be shocked if it did or if it was of any size.

The stock is up 50% from last years lows..near a high for the year, not in bargain territory for me.

I bought some last week @69.56. Up almost 7 dollars a share already.

You caught a huge break with the inclusion to the SPX in the short term, she was starting to tumble before that was announced.

Sometimes its better to be lucky than good.

I actually knew that was coming beforehand though.

Well even better!

Pretty fat price right here, lets see if the keep letting it sell for higher valuations than it historically does.

Berkshire Hath B: America lines up for piece of Buffett - WSJ -- WSJ reports on Friday, millions of Americans will for the first time own a piece of Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., whose multi-thousand-dollar share price made it a thinly traded luxury of wealthy investors and institutions, is going mainstream as it joins the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. More than $1 trillion of investor money directly tracks the index. The result is a scramble for Berkshire shares by index funds that, by one estimate, will reach $14 billion of buying. This further exposes Berkshire stock to the stratagems of fast-moving traders, a brand of investor anathema to Mr. Buffett's general buy-and-hold approach. Small-time investors, meanwhile, will finally be getting a piece of Mr. Buffett just as uncertainty builds about the future of his $178 billion conglomerate, which is one of the largest public companies in the U.S., selling everything from insurance to underwear. The 79-year-old Mr. Buffett is entering the twilight of his career, and little is known about his succession plans, other than that he has placed the name of his replacement in an envelope he keeps in his office. Yet small investors are likely soon to have billions of dollars more in Berkshire stock, thanks both to its entry into the index and to a recent stock split.