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We buy companies at deep discounts and hold them for a long time, said Wallace Weitz, president of Wallace R. Weitz & Company. (See below for his recommendations.)
His portfolio was helped by "stocks we had the last 2 to 3 years that were unnecessarily beaten up,” Weitz told CNBC at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago.
“We added quite a bit to many of our favorites on our way down.”
Weitz said although he is more cautious on the markets right now, he is bullish overall in the long-term.
Recommendations:
Google [GOOG
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Energy—“My interest in oil, after not having owned it since the '70s, is that after the collapse last fall, prices [are now] well below the necessary costs to buy new properties,” he said.
“And when commodities cost less than what it takes to produce, something good is going to happen.”
Weitz said he especially likes the oil and gas exploration companies.
Berkshire Hathaway [BRK.A
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Redwood Trust [RWT
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Weitz said while he is a fan of the financial sector, his firm doesn’t own banks apart from Wells Fargo [WFC
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Disclosure:
No immediate information was available for Weitz or his firm.
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