Berkshire analysts are still tepid on the stock after annual meeting. What Abel can do to win them over

Wall Street analysts came away from Greg Abel's first annual meeting at Berkshire Hathaway broadly impressed with his command of the business, but underwhelmed by the company's restrained pace of share buybacks. Despite Berkshire's cash pile nearing $400 billion and a return to buybacks in early March, first-quarter repurchases totaled just $235 million, a figure that several analysts said fell short of expectations given perceived discount between the stock price and Berkshire's intrinsic …