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) | $371.43B |
| Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $89.00B |
| PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) | 23.88 |
| PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 23.06 |
| PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) | 3.41 |
| Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 2.85 |
| Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) | 1.60 |
| Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) | 17.44 |
| Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 26.49% |
| Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 21.79% |
| Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) | 7.20% |
| Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) | 4.01% |
| Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.32 |
| Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.32 |
| Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.00 |
| Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) | -- |
| Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $302.19 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $4.47 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $22.00 |
| Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) | $37.52 |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Insurance - Diversified |
| Common Shares Outstanding | 2.16B |
| Free Float | 2.03B |
| Market Capitalization | $1051.79B |
| Average Volume (Last 20 Days) | 4.20M |
| Beta (Past 60 Months) | 0.85 |
| Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) | 6.05% |
| Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) | 39.25% |
| Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) | $0.00 |
| Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) | 0.00% |