How does BRKB's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

BRKB is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (9x) compared to the peer average (3.8x).

How does BRKB's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the South American Diversified Financial Industry?

BRKB is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (9x) compared to the South American Diversified Financial industry average (7.7x).

What is BRKB's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

Insufficient data to calculate BRKB's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

What is the Fair Price of BRKB when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

BRKB ($459.2) is trading below our estimate of [[fair value]] ($723.34)

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Insufficient data to show price forecast.

BRKB Stock Overview

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. More details

BRKB fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	2/6
Future Growth	1/6
Past Performance	5/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	0/6

Rewards

Trading at 36.5% below our estimate of its fair value

Revenue is forecast to grow 2.48% per year

Earnings grew by 39.3% over the past year

Risk Analysis

Earnings are forecast to decline by an average of 41.6% per year for the next 3 years

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Competitors

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Investor

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Berkshire Hathaway
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$459.20
52 Week High	US$479.11
52 Week Low	US$426.78
Beta	0.88
1 Month Change	0.49%
3 Month Change	-1.01%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	5.18%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	BRKB	CL Diversified Financial	CL Market
7D	-0.4%	0.4%	0.3%
1Y	n/a	22.2%	9.4%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how BRKB performed against the CL Diversified Financial industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how BRKB performed against the CL Market.

Price Volatility

Is BRKB's price volatile compared to industry and market?
BRKB volatility
BRKB Average Weekly Movement	1.8%
Diversified Financial Industry Average Movement	4.8%
Market Average Movement	2.1%
10% most volatile stocks in CL Market	4.5%
10% least volatile stocks in CL Market	0.6%

Stable Share Price: BRKB has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the CL market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine BRKB's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1998	396,500	Warren Buffett	www.berkshirehathaway.com

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Berkshire Hathaway's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
BRKB fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$963.50b
Earnings (TTM)	US$106.88b
Revenue (TTM)	US$369.89b

9.0x

P/E Ratio

2.6x

P/S Ratio

Is BRKB overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
BRKB income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$369.89b
Cost of Revenue	US$85.57b
Gross Profit	US$136.85b
Other Expenses	US$29.97b
Earnings	US$106.88b

Last Reported Earnings

Sep 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	74.32k
Gross Margin	37.00%
Net Profit Margin	28.89%
Debt/Equity Ratio	19.7%

How did BRKB perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/19 11:26
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/18 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is covered by 15 analysts. 3 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Stephen Biggar	Argus Research Company
Jay Gelb	Barclays
Michael Hartnett	BofA Global Research

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