After the close came an amended 13-F filing which shows that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE BRK-A) NYSE: BRK-B) filed in mid-May for a confidentiality arrangement with the SEC. The filing shows that Berkshire took a 1.655 million share stake in Lee worth over $2 million and this is a move which most like fits in with its latest efforts in buying papers from Media General Inc. (NYSE: MEG) with a deep financing pact.
If you go back to when Buffett made the newspaper acquisition in mid-May we named Lee Enterprises as one of the other potential beneficiaries. Some of the other companies with high concentrations in newspapers are Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), Daily Journal Corp. (NASDAQ: DJCO), and A. H. Belo Corporation (NYSE: BLC).
The SEC denied Berkshire Hathaway’s request for confidential treatment on May 25 according to this full filing.
Here is a full list of the Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway equity holdings, excluding those holdings where the firm had received confidential treatment.
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