Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company, which owns subsidiaries in insurance, rail roads, utilities, manufacturing services, retail and home building. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and insurance basis, a freight rail transportation business and a group of utility and energy generation and distribution businesses. It has four major operating sectors - The Insurance group (includes GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company writes private passenger automobile insurance); General Re (conducts reinsurance business, offering property and casualty, life and health coverage to clients worldwide); Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (underwrites excess-of-loss reinsurance and quota-share coverage for insurers and reinsurers globally); Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (comprises a wide variety of independently-managed insurance businesses that principally write liability coverage for commercial accounts).
| Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $302.09B |
| Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $-22.82B |
| PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) | 19.66 |
| PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 22.16 |
| PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) | 2.81 |
| Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 2.20 |
| Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) | 1.36 |
| Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) | 16.90 |
| Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 1.58% |
| Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 2.28% |
| Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) | 6.60% |
| Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) | 3.39% |
| Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.28 |
| Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.28 |
| Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.00 |
| Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) | -- |
| Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $218.74 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $3.69 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $13.97 |
| Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) | $3.46 |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Insurance - Diversified |
| Common Shares Outstanding | 2.17B |
| Free Float | 2.04B |
| Market Capitalization | $697.22B |
| Average Volume (Last 20 Days) | 3.01M |
| Beta (Past 60 Months) | 0.87 |
| Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) | 6.05% |
| Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) | 37.36% |
| Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) | $0.00 |
| Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) | 0.00% |