Berkshire acquires Taylor Morrison — the $8.5B practitioner read.
$8.5B all-cash. 1.08x book. 6.6x EBITDA. Owner-CEO stays. Berkshire Hathaway’s May 31, 2026 acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC) is the Berkshire-discipline deal in unfamiliar clothing — production homebuilding is new for Berkshire; the price discipline is textbook.
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Berkshire Hathaway’s May 31, 2026 acquisition of Taylor Morrison walked at flagship depth: $72.50 per share cash, ~$6.8B equity value, ~$8.5B enterprise value, a 24% premium to the undisturbed price. The price discipline is the story — a modest 1.08x book and 6.6x trailing Adjusted EBITDA, paid all-cash from the ~$397B war chest, with owner-CEO Sheryl Palmer staying on. The Berkshire-discipline deal in unfamiliar clothing.
Production homebuilding is new for Berkshire — but the structure isn’t. Greg Abel is signaling a Clayton-Homes-plus-TMHC site-built housing platform, not a one-off acquisition. Keeping the owner-CEO in place, paying a disciplined multiple, and funding entirely with cash are the same moves Berkshire has made for decades; the only new variable is the end market. The read frames TMHC as the anchor of a broader housing strategy.
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