Business Description

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a Delaware-domiciled holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, that owns subsidiaries across a wide range of industries. Its most important operations are its primary and reinsurance insurance businesses (including GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance), the BNSF freight-rail transportation business, and the Berkshire Hathaway Energy group of regulated utilities. Berkshire also owns dozens of manufacturing, service and retailing businesses and holds one of the largest equity-securities portfolios in the world. The company is run on an unusually decentralized basis, with capital allocation and major investment decisions directed centrally by its chief executive officer.

Everything on Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Revenue (FY2025) $371.4B
YoY growth +0.0%
Net earnings margin 18.0%
Direction Stable
Pre-tax margin 22.2%
Return on equity 9.3%

Leadership & board

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Gregory E. Abel — Chief Executive Officer & Director View full profile ↗ Howard G. Buffett — Director View full profile ↗ Susan A. Buffett — Director View full profile ↗ Warren E. Buffett — Chairman of the Board View full profile ↗ Stephen B. Burke — Director View full profile ↗ Kenneth I. Chenault — Director View full profile ↗ Christopher C. Davis — Director View full profile ↗ Susan L. Decker — Director (Lead Independent Director) View full profile ↗ Charlotte Guyman — Director View full profile ↗ Ajit Jain — Vice Chairman - Insurance Operations & Director View full profile ↗ Thomas S. Murphy, Jr. — Director View full profile ↗ Wallace R. Weitz — Director View full profile ↗ Meryl B. Witmer — Director View full profile ↗ Marc D. Hamburg — Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer View full profile ↗ Charles C. Chang — Chief Financial Officer (effective June 1, 2026) View full profile ↗
Berkshire Hathaway acquires Precision Castparts Corp. — Manufacturing (aerospace / industrial components) · 2016 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF) — Railroad / transportation · 2010 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires H.J. Heinz Company — Consumer staples / packaged food · 2013 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires Alleghany Corporation — Insurance / reinsurance · 2022 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires The Lubrizol Corporation — Specialty chemicals · 2011 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires Dominion Energy natural gas transmission & storage business (via Berkshire Hathaway Energy) — Energy / natural gas infrastructure · 2020 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires OxyChem (Occidental Petroleum's chemical business) — Manufacturing (commodity chemicals) · 2026 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires Pilot Travel Centers, LLC (Pilot / Flying J) — Retail / travel centers · 2023 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires NV Energy, Inc. (via MidAmerican / Berkshire Hathaway Energy) — Energy / regulated utilities · 2013 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires PacifiCorp (via MidAmerican Energy Holdings) — Energy / regulated utilities · 2006 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires Marmon Holdings, Inc. — Diversified manufacturing / industrial · 2008 View full deal ↗ Berkshire Hathaway acquires MLMIC Insurance Company — Insurance · 2018 View full deal ↗

Share Repurchase Program

Total authorized
No fixed dollar amount or share-count authorization. Berkshire's common stock repurchase program permits repurchases of Class A and Class B shares at any time the CEO, after consultation with the Chairman of the Board, believes the repurchase price is below Berkshire's conservatively-determined intrinsic value. The program was amended in 2025 (previously the discretion was vested in Warren Buffett personally). Repurchases may be made in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions.
Latest FY repurchased
$0 in FY2025 - no Class A or Class B shares were repurchased during 2025 (acquisitions of treasury stock were a dash/nil in the cash flow statement, versus $2.918 billion in 2024 and $9.171 billion in 2023).

Recent SEC Filings

2026-05-07 Reported quarterly results (+3 more) View filing ↗
2026-04-16 Other event View filing ↗
2026-03-05 Other event View filing ↗
2026-03-02 Reported quarterly results View filing ↗
2025-12-11 Leadership change (directors/officers) View filing ↗
2025-11-21 Other event View filing ↗
2025-11-03 Reported quarterly results View filing ↗
2025-10-03 Amended charter/bylaws View filing ↗
2025-08-04 Reported quarterly results View filing ↗
2025-05-08 Leadership change (directors/officers) View filing ↗
2025-05-06 Reported quarterly results (+1 more) View filing ↗
2025-04-17 Other event View filing ↗

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