Yeah, no question about it. The stock is below the now-infamous August 30 ("we bought back a little" day). $224 was better if one was looking to sell. But frankly, LT holders have to love the price drop. Now that they're no longer hoarding cash, it's nice to know that every price drop works in our favor if you just sit and let them shrink the equity (if Warren Buffett and John Malone had a child...). Better than waiting for that 'elephant' acquisition which comes every few years and hasn't come for a long time now. I do not think they're stopping at $210 either. My guesstimate (and that's all it can be) is that the buyback will continue to $220-$225 at least and that limit will move up as IV increases (though it could move down if rates were up a lot? But I suppose WEB uses higher than prevailing rates for his discounting, so maybe not by much). If we have a -20 or -30% on the S&P, BRK buyback will be epic. And you could sit on your position and not have to buy more to take advantage of the dips (if you don't want to or don't have the funds) because they'll be buying it in.
Buyers at $206 really have, again if they're in it for the LT, almost a one-way bet. You can be as sure as you'll ever be in stocks that there won't be a permanent impairment of capital. Plus, there's upside from here from valuation growth and business growth. Just my 20,600 cents.