Berkshire Hathaway/$BRK.B
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About Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company with a wide array of subsidiaries engaged in diverse activities. The firm's core business segment is insurance, run primarily through Geico, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group, and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. Berkshire has used the excess cash thrown off from its operations to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (railroad), Berkshire Hathaway Energy (utilities and energy distributors), and the companies that make up its manufacturing, service, and retailing operations (which include Precision Castparts, Lubrizol, Clayton Homes, Marmon, and IMC/ISCAR). The conglomerate is unique in that it is run on a completely decentralized basis.
- Ticker
- $BRK.B
- Sector
- Finance
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 387,800
- Headquarters
- Omaha, United States
- Website
- www.berkshirehathaway.com
BRK.B Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$1.1T
12.63
$39.79
0.61
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Price and volume
Market cap
$1.1T
Beta
0.61
52-week high
$537.74
52-week low
$464.01
Average daily volume
4.5M
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.891
Quick ratio
2.693
Long term debt to equity
0.168
Total debt to equity
0.171
Interest coverage (TTM)
22.46%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
87.166
Gross margin (TTM)
30.33%
Net profit margin (TTM)
22.30%
Operating margin (TTM)
30.33%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
19.51%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$660
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
6.01%
Return on equity (TTM)
12.12%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
12.633
Price to revenue (TTM)
2.817
Price to book
1.44
Price to tangible book (TTM)
1.71
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
44.744
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
2.23%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
11.234
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
3.93%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
36.32%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
4.94%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
6.45%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
0.13%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
14.42%
What the Analysts think about BRK.B
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Berkshire Hathaway stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Berkshire Hathaway stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Berkshire’s operating engine remains broad and resilient. Second-quarter operating earnings rose 16.3% to $13.0 billion, with gains across BNSF, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and manufacturing, service and retailing rather than relying solely on the investment portfolio. (Morningstar, Berkshire Hathaway)
Greg Abel has started putting Berkshire’s unusually large liquidity reserve to work. The company became a net buyer of equities, resumed sizeable share repurchases and still held about $365.5 billion in cash and Treasury bills, giving it substantial firepower for acquisitions, investments and future buybacks. (Berkshire Hathaway, CNBC)
The insurance franchise still supplies a valuable source of investable capital. Insurance float reached about $177.5 billion at the end of June, increasing since year-end, while Berkshire’s decentralised structure and an orderly Buffett-to-Abel handover preserve the potential for disciplined long-term capital allocation. (Berkshire Hathaway, CNBC)
Insurance, historically Berkshire’s core capital engine, weakened in the quarter. Underwriting earnings fell 13%, GEICO’s underwriting profit dropped sharply as claims became more frequent and severe, and insurance investment income declined 9% as short-term rates fell. (Morningstar, The Motley Fool)
The headline profit surge overstates the underlying improvement. Second-quarter net earnings benefited heavily from unrealised equity gains and a favourable comparison with a prior-year Kraft Heinz impairment, while foreign-exchange gains also boosted reported operating earnings. (Berkshire Hathaway, The Motley Fool)
Berkshire now faces a tougher test without Buffett as chief executive. Abel has increased activity, but no game-changing acquisition has arrived and most of the cash reserve remains idle; at Berkshire’s scale, finding attractive uses for that capital and sustaining past compounding rates will be difficult. (The Motley Fool, Forbes)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 17 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing BRK.B
AllGBPEUR
Fund name | Fund size | $BRK.B weighting |
|---|---|---|
Amundi S&P 500£500G | £6.6B | 2.41% |
SPDR S&P 500€SPYL | €16B | 1.41% |
SPDR S&P 500£SPXL | £14B | 1.41% |
Invesco S&P 500£SPXP | £32B | 1.40% |
SPDR MSCI World€SPPW | €18B | 0.78% |
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