Warren Buffett’s Berkshire cuts stake in HP, Carl Icahn offers up FirstEnergy board seat

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has reduce its stake in HP Inc. by about half, and Carl Icahn has diminished his place in FirstEnergy Corp. and relinquished a board seat, based on regulatory filings Monday.

According to a submitting with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Berkshire
BRK.A,
+1.28%

BRK.B,
+1.13%
has reduce its stake in HP
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+3.09%
to five.2%, down from about 10%, or 97.9 million shares, as of Oct. 3, after the conglomerate bought HP shares for 9 straight buying and selling periods.

The submitting confirmed Berkshire nonetheless owns about 51.5 million shares of HP, price about $1.56 billion, primarily based on Monday’s closing worth of $30.37. After the latest sale, Berkshire dropped from HP’s second-largest shareholder to its third-largest, behind Vanguard Group and BlackRock Fund Advisors, based on FactSet information.

Meanwhile, an SEC submitting confirmed Andrew Teno, an government at Icahn Group, resigned from the board of FirstEnergy
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+0.49%,
efficient Dec. 8. That board seat was contingent on Icahn holding at the least a 1.5% stake within the firm, the submitting stated, and he was required to resign as soon as the stake fell under that threshold.

Icahn took a stake in FirstEnergy in February 2021, and held a 2.5% stake as of Sept. 30, based on FactSet information.

Source web site: www.marketwatch.com

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