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title: "Sentiment Analysis of 49 years of Warren Buffett’s Letters to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway"
author: "Paul D. Sonkin"
date: "2021-01-19T13:42:52Z"
link: "https://bookdown.org/psonkin18/berkshire/"
length_weight: "8.2%"
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Sentiment Analysis of 49 years of Warren Buffett’s Letters to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway [...] The goal of this project is to perform a sentiment analysis in R of 49 years of letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders written by Warren Buffett between 1971 and 2019. What these data show is that IF, and that is a big if, the sentiment lexica are measuring the sentiment of Buffett’s letters accurately, that while Buffett says his focus is primarily on book value, the sentiment of his letters is actually more closely correlated with Berkshire’s stock price and the S&P 500 as shown in ...
