Berkshire now has 1,152,547 shares outstanding. That compares, you will be interested to know, to 1,137,778 shares outstanding on October 1, 1964, the beginning of the fiscal year during which Buffett Partnership, Ltd. acquired control of the company.
Berkshire目前流通在外股数为1,152,547股,相较于1964年10月1日当初,巴菲特合伙取得Berkshire控制权时的1,137,778股来说,增加的股数实属有限。
We have a firm policy about issuing shares of Berkshire, doing so only when we receive as much value as we give. Equal value, however, has not been easy to obtain, since we have always valued our shares highly. So be it: We wish to increase Berkshire"s size only when doing that also increases the wealth of its owners.
对于发行新股我们有相当严格的规定,那就是除非我们确信所收到的价值与我们付出的一致时,我们才会考虑这样做,当然同等的价值不是那么容易达到,因为我们一向自视甚高,不过那又如何,除非确定公司股东的财富也会增加,否则我们不会随便扩大规模。
Those two objectives do not necessarily go hand-in-hand as an amusing but value-destroying experience in our past illustrates. On that occasion, we had a significant investment in a bank whose management was hell-bent on expansion. (Aren"t they all?) When our bank wooed a smaller bank, its owner demanded a stock swap on a basis that valued the acquiree"s net worth and earning power at over twice that of the acquirer"s. Our management - visibly in heat - quickly capitulated. The owner of the acquiree then insisted on one other condition: "You must promise me," he said in effect, "that once our merger is done and I have become a major shareholder, you"ll never again make a deal this dumb."
大家要知道这两个目的不一定就会自然吻合,事实上在我们过去所举过的例子中,有些就是看起来有趣但却是让价值受到减损的经验,在那次经验中,我们在一家银行有相当大的投资,而银行经理人对于扩张却有极度偏好,(他们不都是如此吗?),当我们投资的银行在追求另外一家较小的银行时,对方开出的价码是以其净值与获利能力作为基础后的两倍,当时我们的经理人因为正在热头上,所以很快就答应了,这时对方又得寸进尺开出另外一项条件,他说:「你必须答应我,在整个购并案完成后,我可以变成公司最大的股东,同时以后你也不能在做类似这次交易那样愚蠢的购并案」。
You will remember that our goal is to increase our per-share intrinsic value - for which our book value is a conservative, but useful, proxy - at a 15% annual rate. This objective, however, cannot be attained in a smooth manner. Smoothness is particularly elusive because of the accounting rules that apply to the common stocks owned by our insurance companies, whose portfolios represent a high proportion of Berkshire"s net worth. Since 1979, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) have required that these securities be valued at their market prices (less an adjustment for tax on any net unrealized appreciation) rather than at the lower of cost or market. Run-of-the-mill fluctuations in equity prices therefore cause our annual results to gyrate, especially in comparison to those of the typical industrial company.
大家一定要记得,我们的终极目标是希望能让公司每年以15%稳定的速度来增加每股的实质价值,当然公司的帐面价值虽然保守了点,但却是相当有用的替代性指针,不过这样的目标很难以平稳地态势达成,这在Berkshire尤其困难,因为会计原则规定,我们旗下保险事业所持有,占Berkshire相当大部分的股票投资必须以市价列示。自从1979年以来,一般公认会计原则就要求它们以市价方式而非原先的成本与市价孰低法列在公司帐上(当然要扣除未实现资本利得估计应支付的税负),股票价格如同水车滚轮般上上下下,也使得我们每年结算的成绩变化很大,尤其是在与一般公司产业比较时更为明显。
To illustrate just how volatile our progress has been - and to indicate the impact that market movements have on short-term results - we show on the facing page our annual change in per-share net worth and compare it with the annual results (including dividends) of the S&P 500.
为了解释我们净值变化的程度以及股票市场波动对于公司帐面盈余短期的影响,从今年起我们决定在年报的首页放置每年公司净值变化以及与S&P 500指数(含现金股利)之间的比较。
You should keep at least three points in mind as you evaluate this data. The first point concerns the many businesses we operate whose annual earnings are unaffected by changes in stock market valuations. The impact of these businesses on both our absolute and relative performance has changed over the years. Early on, returns from our textile operation, which then represented a significant portion of our net worth, were a major drag on performance, averaging far less than would have been the case if the money invested in that business had instead been invested in the S&P 500. In more recent years, as we assembled our collection of exceptional businesses run by equally exceptional managers, the returns from our operating businesses have been high - usually well in excess of the returns achieved by the S&P.
大家在评估这份资料时至少必须要注意三个重点,第一、我们旗下许多事业每年年度的获利并不受股市波动的影响,而这些企业对于我们绝对或相对的影响每年也都不一样,就早期而言,由于我们在纺织事业的报酬占我们净值相当大的部份,所以要是在这方面投资不当,我们的绩效可能会远远落后于将钱摆在S&P 500指数相关类股之上,不过到了最近,当我们逐渐利用投资组成一支由优秀经理人经营的优秀企业团队时,这些企业所带来的报酬通常远高于投资S&P 500指数。
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