Looks like “The Oracle of Omaha” is springing into action. CNBC Executive Producer Alex Crippen wrote this morning:

A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway just announced a tentative agreement to buy Constellation Energy for roughly $4.7 billion in cash.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings is paying just $26.50 a share. Constellation’s stock closed at $58.37 last Friday and finished 2007 at $102.53.

Constellation’s stock has plunged in recent days after S&P put its debt rating on watch amid worries about the liquidity needs of its commodities trading business.

Crippen, who follows the legendary stock investor through his “Warren Buffett Watch” blog, added:

It appears Buffett is indeed taking advantage of the recent financial turmoil to pick up what he would call a good company at a great price. We assume he sees something in Constellation that he didn’t see in AIG, since he declined to come to that company’s rescue earlier this week after it suffered a similar, but more extreme, battering on Wall Street.

Source:

“Warren Buffett Picks Up Constellation Energy At Bargain Price”
Alex Crippen
CNBC, September 18, 2008

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