Bill Ackman thinks returning capital will be a bigger priority for Berkshire's incoming CEO. Berkshire Hathaway has never paid a regular dividend under Warren Buffett's leadership. Warren Buffett shocked Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.

As the two-hour afternoon session of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting wound to a close, the conglomerate’s chief of 60 years declared that he’d just gotten the “five-minute warning, exclamation point,