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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowWarren Buffett likes WellPoint.
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. this week revealed it has amassed nearly 980,000 shares in WellPoint Inc., the Indianapolis-based health benefits firm, according to Reuters.
Berkshire’s stake is worth about $82 million.
Shares of companies often rise after Berkshire discloses investment in them. Buffett, the second-richest man in America, looks for stable, straightforward, industry-leading companies whose shares appear to be undervalued.
Berkshire also reported higher stakes in two other companies in health care, Johnson & Johnson and France’s Sanofi-Aventis.
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