Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate that is headquartered in USA. It’s one of the biggest companies by market capitalization and has holdings in some of the biggest brands in the world like Apple and Coca-Cola. This is a guide on how to buy Berkshire Hathaway shares in South Africa.
Register with a broker
You need to register with a broker to be able to buy shares in companies. A broker acts like a middleman between you and the company you want to buy shares. Up until recently, it was very difficult to buy shares from offshore companies.
Mainly because of the sky-high minimums that you had to pay. EasyEquities came into the picture and changed all that, you can now buy US stocks for as little as R100. You will also get a demo account, which you can use to practice, it comes with $10K.
You don’t need to have any money to open an EasyEquities account, this is something you can do for free.
From your EasyEquities dashboard, do the following.
- Tap on “invest”.
- Select the USD account.
- Search for “Berkshire Hathaway” and click on it.
- Tap on “buy now”
- Enter the amount of money you want to buy with.
- Confirm your transaction.
Click on the demo account on step 2 if you have not yet deposited money into your EasyEquities account.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKB) has produced good returns recently, it’s up 52% within the last 12 months at the time of writing this article. However, it’s up 64% since 2017, which is an average of 16%, those are good returns.
Conclusion
That’s how easy it is to buy Berkshire Hathaway shares from South Africa. Do you have any thoughts or questions? Comment below.
