On this picture illustration, Paramount+ (Paramount Plus) emblem is seen on a smartphone towards its web site within the background.
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Shares of Paramount International jumped Tuesday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a brand new stake within the media firm.
The inventory rallied 15.4% Tuesday.
Berkshire purchased 68.9 million shares of Paramount to construct a stake value $2.6 billion as of the tip of March, in response to a regulatory submitting launched Monday.
Paramount was Berkshire’s 18th largest holding on the finish of the primary quarter. The brand new stake provides one other streaming property to Berkshire’s portfolio, whose high holding is Apple.
The media firm in February rebranded from ViacomCBS to Paramount in a transfer to emphasise its flagship Paramount+ streaming service. Whereas Paramount missed earnings expectations in its newest quarterly report, Paramount+ added 6.8 million subscribers within the first quarter.
Paramount shares are beating the market this yr, down 7.2% versus the S&P 500’s 14.9% decline.
It’s unclear if the acquisition of Paramount shares got here from Buffett or one his investing deputies, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. Combs and Weschler independently handle roughly $30 billion of the conglomerate’s fairness portfolio. In recent times, Berkshire purchased a slew of expertise names together with Apple and Activision beneath their affect.
Berkshire additionally added new stakes in HP and Citigroup through the first quarter, amongst different adjustments to its fairness portfolio
—CNBC’s Yun Li contributed reporting.
