{"id":2629,"date":"2018-08-13T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2018-08-13T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:11:08","slug":"should-berkshire-hathaway-buy-southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Should Berkshire Hathaway buy Southwest Airlines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B) could use its controversial cash hoard to purchase Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), according to Morgan Stanley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In a research note, reported on by CNBC\u00a0and MarketWatch, analysts at the bank noted that Berkshire now has a thing for airline stocks, over a decade after Buffett dismissed them as \u201cthe worst sort\u201d of businesses. Within the sector, Morgan Stanley identified Southwest Airlines as the best fit, adding that the Dallas, Texas-based low-cost carrier\u2019s &#8220;consistent earnings power,&#8221; strong balance sheet, good management, &#8220;simple&#8221; business model, low cost structure, \u201csignificant competitive advantage\u201d and attractive price are exactly the type of characteristics that Berkshire usually looks for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/news\/morgan-stanley-thinks-berkshire-should-buy-airline\/?partner=YahooSA&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Should Berkshire Hathaway Buy LUV?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2630\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Southwest_Airlines-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"898\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Southwest_Airlines-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Southwest_Airlines-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Southwest_Airlines-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Southwest_Airlines.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B) could use its controversial cash hoard to purchase Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), according to Morgan Stanley. In a research note, reported on by CNBC\u00a0and MarketWatch, analysts at the bank noted that Berkshire now has a thing for airline stocks, over a decade after Buffett dismissed them as \u201cthe worst sort\u201d of businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,799,868,1103],"tags":[629,118,116,791,795,630,180,1431,792,807,1429,1428,186,628,444,1430],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-aal","tag-airlines","tag-american","tag-berkshire","tag-continental","tag-dal","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-geico","tag-hathaway","tag-holdings","tag-luv","tag-morgan-stanley","tag-southwest","tag-ual","tag-united","tag-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}