It’s 13-F season, and you’re not going to find many like Guy Spier’s Aquamarine Capital in the first quarter —- zero buys, zero sells. “Pathetic, isn’t it,” quips Spier in an interview.
He is fully on board with Berkshire Hathaway’s recent push into the oil industry with Occidental Petroleum OXY, -1.81% and Chevron CVX, -0.96%, though he doesn’t directly own any oil company. “The war with Russia has made it utterly clear that we’re not going to get rid of our oil dependence in the next decade or two. And because the industry has been under invested massively, there’s going to be extraordinary returns to people invested,” says Spier.
Some breaking news is that Spier actually has made a transaction this year — he sold Twitter TWTR, -1.60%, a company that along with Google parent Alphabet GOOG, -1.44% he bought during the pandemic, for more than $50 per share. After Elon Musk launched his takeover offer, “I spent about five milliseconds thinking if he were to allow me to come into the private deal, would I do it.