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	1/6
Future Growth	0/6
Past Performance	2/6
Financial Health	5/6
Dividends	0/6

Risk Analysis

Earnings are forecast to decline by an average of 14.5% per year for the next 3 years

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Competitors

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana

BVC:GRUPOSURA

Col$16.5t

Corporación Financiera Colombiana

BVC:CORFICOLCF

Col$6.0t

Investor

OM:INVE A

SEK 850.9b

Visa

NYSE:V

US$647.3b

Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Berkshire Hathaway
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$2,265,000.00
52 Week High	US$2,315,000.00
52 Week Low	US$1,731,100.00
Beta	0.80
1 Month Change	4.21%
3 Month Change	13.52%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	29.03%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	BRKB	CO Diversified Financial	CO Market
7D	0.7%	-0.3%	3.0%
1Y	n/a	5.8%	20.8%

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

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

Price Volatility

Is BRKB's price volatile compared to industry and market?
BRKB volatility
BRKB Average Weekly Movement	4.5%
Diversified Financial Industry Average Movement	4.9%
Market Average Movement	4.1%
10% most volatile stocks in CO Market	6.3%
10% least volatile stocks in CO Market	2.5%

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

Volatility Over Time: BRKB's weekly volatility (5%) has been stable over the past year.

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About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1998	392,400	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; operates railroad systems in North America; 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. It also manufactures boxed chocolates and other confectionery products; specialty chemicals, metal cutting tools, and components for aerospace and power generation applications; prefabricated and site-built residential homes, flooring products; insulation, roofing, and engineered products; building and engineered components; paints and coatings; and bricks and masonry products, as well as offers manufactured and site-built home construction, and related lending and financial services.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Berkshire Hathaway's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
BRKB fundamental statistics
Market cap	Col$4822.39t
Earnings (TTM)	Col$383.60t
Revenue (TTM)	Col$1601.02t

12.6x

P/E Ratio

3.0x

P/S Ratio

Is BRKB overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
BRKB income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$371.43b
Cost of Revenue	US$37.29b
Gross Profit	US$113.74b
Other Expenses	US$24.74b
Earnings	US$89.00b

Last Reported Earnings

Dec 31, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	61.86k
Gross Margin	30.62%
Net Profit Margin	23.96%
Debt/Equity Ratio	19.1%

How did BRKB perform over the long term?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/04/18 14:37
End of Day Share Price	2025/04/16 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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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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