NYSE · BRK-A
Financial Services · Insurance - Diversified
$773,825.00
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Updated Sep 16, 2026, 11:11 AM
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5.8/10
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46/100
Neutral
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. It provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. The company 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. In addition, the company manufactures boxed chocolates and other confectionery products; specialty chemicals, metal cutting tools, and components for aerospace and power generation applications; 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. Further, it provides recreational vehicles, apparel products, jewelry, and custom picture framing products, as well as alkaline batteries; castings, forgings, fasteners/fastener systems, and aerostructures; and seamless pipes, fittings, downhole casing and tubing, and mill forms. Additionally, the company distributes televisions and information; franchises and services quick service restaurants; distributes electronic components; and offers logistics services, grocery and foodservice distribution services, and professional aviation training and shared aircraft ownership programs. It also retails automobiles; furniture, bedding, and accessories; household appliances, electronics, and computers; jewelry, watches, crystal, china, stemware, flatware, gifts, and collectibles; kitchenware; and motorcycle apparel and equipment. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
Visit company websiteConsensus and target data currently published for this company.
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2020 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight | — |
| May 5, 2020 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight | — |
| May 4, 2020 | UBS | Buy | — |
| Apr 24, 2020 | UBS | Buy | — |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight | — |
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fool.com · Dec 11, 2025
In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Jeff Santoro explain the series of major executive changes at Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A +1.06%) (BRK.B +1.10%), including key investor and GEICO CEO Todd Combs heading to JPMorgan Chase (JPM +2.34%) for a newly created role.
fool.com · Dec 11, 2025
Apple and Bank of America remain 21.4% and 9.6% of Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio, respectively. Berkshire purchased Alphabet shares for the first time in the third quarter.
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Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares trade at $773,825 per share, supporting a market capitalization of approximately $1.07 trillion, per SID market data. The stock exhibits a beta of 0.703, indicating materially lower volatility relative to the broader market, consistent with the conglomerate's diversified business model spanning insurance, energy, railroads, and manufacturing. Average daily volume stands at just 388 shares, reflecting the extremely high per-share price that limits retail participation and concentrates trading among institutional investors. The sub-1.0 beta underscores Berkshire's historical tendency to decline less than the S&P 500 during downturns while also lagging during strong rallies. According to Massive/Polygon data, this low-volatility profile has attracted long-term, value-oriented capital. The combination of trillion-dollar scale and minimal daily turnover creates a distinctive liquidity profile among mega-cap equities, positioning Berkshire as a defensive allocation within diversified portfolios.
Berkshire Hathaway trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.86, per SID market data, which sits below the broader Financial Services sector median and reflects the company's earnings power across its diversified operating subsidiaries. The price-to-book ratio stands at 1.53, according to SEC filings, a metric closely watched by investors given Warren Buffett's historical use of book value as an intrinsic value proxy. The PEG ratio of 2.20 suggests the stock's valuation is elevated relative to its earnings growth trajectory, indicating that the market prices in stability and quality rather than aggressive growth. Notably, Berkshire pays no dividend, instead opting to retain and redeploy capital through acquisitions and share repurchases. This zero-dividend policy allows the company to compound book value internally. The combination of a moderate P/E with a price-to-book near 1.5x reflects investor confidence in management's capital allocation discipline without excessive premium.
Berkshire Hathaway's composite smart money score registers at 46 out of 100 with a neutral signal, per SID market data, suggesting neither strong accumulation nor distribution by sophisticated market participants. The insider activity sub-score stands at 12.5 out of 25, reflecting moderate but unremarkable insider transaction levels according to SEC Form 4 filings. Institutional positioning scores 13.0 out of 25, indicating middling conviction among large fund managers despite Berkshire's status as a widely held mega-cap. The dark pool activity sub-score of 8.5 out of 25 is notably low, which may partially reflect the stock's extremely limited daily volume of approximately 388 shares that constrains off-exchange block trading. Congressional trading activity scores 12 out of 25 based on disclosed congressional transactions. The overall neutral reading suggests that institutional and insider flows are not providing a directional signal at current price levels. No single sub-component demonstrates a particularly strong bullish or bearish skew, resulting in balanced positioning across all tracked smart money channels.
Berkshire Hathaway has demonstrated a mixed but largely positive earnings trajectory over recent quarters, per company earnings reports. The most recent quarter ending September 2025 showed EPS of $9,376.15 against analyst estimates of $8,945.84, representing a positive surprise of $430.31. The June 2025 quarter delivered EPS of $7,759.58, narrowly exceeding the $7,744.82 consensus by $14.76. However, the March 2025 quarter saw a notable miss, with actual EPS of $6,703.41 falling $726.87 below the $7,430.29 estimate. The standout result came in December 2024, when EPS of $10,102.07 exceeded expectations by $3,027.79, a 42.8% positive surprise driven largely by investment gains. Berkshire's earnings volatility reflects the impact of GAAP accounting rules requiring mark-to-market treatment of equity portfolio holdings. Three of the last four quarters exceeded analyst estimates, indicating that the underlying operating businesses continue to generate results at or above consensus projections.
Wall Street coverage of Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares remains notably limited relative to the company's trillion-dollar market capitalization, per SID consensus data. The most recent available ratings include Morgan Stanley maintaining an Equal-Weight rating as of August 2020, while UBS carried a Buy recommendation initiated in April 2020. Morgan Stanley has reiterated its Equal-Weight stance across multiple updates spanning April through August 2020, signaling a consistent neutral view on relative return potential. UBS issued its Buy rating in both April and May 2020, reflecting a more constructive outlook. The sparse analyst coverage is attributable to Berkshire's unique characteristics: the absence of quarterly earnings calls, no dividend, extremely high share price, and minimal investor relations engagement. According to Wall Street analyst reports, the limited number of covering firms means consensus estimates carry wider variance than typical mega-caps. The lack of recent rating changes beyond 2020 in available data further underscores the unusually thin sell-side research attention directed at this conglomerate.
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