(BRK-B) Berkshire Hathaway - NYSE
Sector: Financial Services | Industry: Insurance - Diversified | Exchange: NYSE (USA) | Market Cap: 1.054.033m USD | Total Return: 0.3% in 12m
Avg Turnover: 2.67B
EPS Trend: 96.3%
Qual. Beats: 0
Rev. Trend: -63.3%
Qual. Beats: 1
Warnings
Choppy
Tailwinds
No distinct edge detected
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a U.S.-based conglomerate that operates across insurance, freight rail transportation, and utilities, alongside a wide range of manufacturing, retail, and consumer businesses. Its insurance segment covers property and casualty, life, accident, and health coverage, as well as reinsurance. The company owns and operates BNSF Railway, one of the largest freight rail networks in North America, and runs regulated utility operations that generate, transmit, and distribute electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, and geothermal sources, in addition to natural gas distribution, storage, and pipeline assets.
Beyond these core segments, Berkshire owns a large and diverse group of operating subsidiaries that manufacture products ranging from boxed chocolates and specialty chemicals to aerospace components, building materials, and recreational vehicles. It also operates in logistics, aviation training and shared aircraft ownership, automotive and furniture retail, quick-service restaurant franchising, and consumer goods distribution. The breadth of these businesses reflects Berkshires holding-company model, in which the parent acquires and holds controlling stakes in largely independent operating companies rather than running a single integrated enterprise.
Berkshire is incorporated in 1998 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, and trades on the NYSE under the ticker BRK-B. Despite its extensive industrial and consumer operations, it is classified by GICS as a Diversified Financial Services company, a designation driven primarily by the scale of its insurance and reinsurance businesses, which contribute the largest share of earnings and float to the overall enterprise.
- GEICO underwriting profits rise on improved auto insurance pricing
- BNSF freight volumes decline amid slowing US economic activity
- Berkshire deploys record cash hoard into equity and acquisition targets
| Net Income: 72.5b TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue |
| FCF/TA: 0.02 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA 0.87 > 1.0 |
| NWC/Revenue: 103.0% < 20% (prev 102.5%; Δ 0.53% < -1%) |
| CFO/TA 0.04 > 3% & CFO 45.5b > Net Income 72.5b |
| Net Debt (-251b) to EBITDA (75.4b): -3.33 < 3 |
| Current Ratio: 4.27 > 1.5 & < 3 |
| Outstanding Shares: last quarter (2.16b) vs 12m ago -0.01% < -2% |
| Gross Margin: 25.14% > 18% (prev 34.99%; Δ -9.85% > 0.5%) |
| Asset Turnover: 31.07% > 50% (prev 31.88%; Δ -0.82% > 0%) |
| Interest Coverage Ratio: 14.77 > 6 (EBIT TTM 61.7b / Interest Expense TTM 4.18b) |
| A: 0.31 (Total Current Assets 505b - Total Current Liabilities 118b) / Total Assets 1252b |
| B: 0.62 (Retained Earnings 773b / Total Assets 1252b) |
| C: 0.05 (EBIT TTM 61.7b / Avg Total Assets 1208b) |
| D: 1.39 (Book Value of Equity 727b / Total Liabilities 523b) |
| Altman-Z'' = 5.84 = AAA |
| DSRI: 1.01 (Receivables 81.9b/79.8b, Revenue 375b/371b) |
| GMI: 1.39 (GM 34.99% / 25.14%) |
| AQI: 0.96 (AQ_t 0.40 / AQ_t-1 0.42) |
| SGI: 1.01 (Revenue 375b / 371b) |
| TATA: 0.02 (NI 72.5b - CFO 45.5b) / TA 1252b) |
| Beneish M = -2.67 (Cap -4..+1) = A |
As of June 26, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 487.81 with a total of 7,013,061 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by -0.71%, over one month by +0.87%, over three months by +2.44% and over the past year by +0.33%.
Current recommended Stop Loss: 470.50 (which is 3.5% or 2.5 ATR below the current price).
Berkshire Hathaway has received a consensus analysts rating of 4.00. Therefore, it is recommended to buy BRK-B.
- StrongBuy: 2
- Buy: 0
- Hold: 2
- Sell: 0
- StrongSell: 0
| Analysts Target Price | 520.3 | 6.7% |
P/E Trailing = 14.5573
P/E Forward = 23.1481
P/S = 2.8078
P/B = 1.4495
P/EG = 10.0559
Revenue TTM = 375b USD
EBIT TTM = 61.7b USD
EBITDA TTM = 75.4b USD
Long Term Debt = 127b USD (from longTermDebt, last quarter)
Short Term Debt = 17.2b USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 146b USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter)
Net Debt = -251b USD (calculated: Debt 146b - CCE 397b)
Enterprise Value = 803b USD (1054b + Debt 146b - CCE 397b)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 14.77 (Ebit TTM 61.7b / Interest Expense TTM 4.18b)
EV/FCF = 33.63x (Enterprise Value 803b / FCF TTM 23.9b)
FCF Yield = 2.97% (FCF TTM 23.9b / Enterprise Value 803b)
FCF Margin = 6.36% (FCF TTM 23.9b / Revenue TTM 375b)
Net Margin = 19.31% (Net Income TTM 72.5b / Revenue TTM 375b)
Gross Margin = 25.14% ((Revenue TTM 375b - Cost of Revenue TTM 281b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 28.80% (prev 23.01%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 0.64 (Enterprise Value 803b / Total Assets 1252b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 2.86% (Interest Expense 4.18b / Debt 146b)
Taxrate = 18.81% (16.9b / 89.6b)
NOPAT = 50.1b (EBIT 61.7b * (1 - 18.81%))
Current Ratio = 4.27 (Total Current Assets 505b / Total Current Liabilities 118b)
Debt / Equity = 0.20 (Debt 146b / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 727b)
Debt / EBITDA = -3.33 (Net Debt -251b / EBITDA 75.4b)
Debt / FCF = -10.53 (Net Debt -251b / FCF TTM 23.9b)
Total Stockholder Equity = 703b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 6.00% (Net Income 72.5b / Total Assets 1252b)
RoE = 10.31% (Net Income TTM 72.5b / Total Stockholder Equity 703b)
RoCE = 7.44% (EBIT 61.7b / Capital Employed (Equity 703b + L.T.Debt 127b))
RoIC = 4.42% (NOPAT 50.1b / Invested Capital 1133b)
WACC = 5.77% (E(1054b)/V(1200b) * Re(6.25%) + D(146b)/V(1200b) * Rd(2.86%) * (1-Tc(0.19)))
Discount Rate = 6.25% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: -9.20 | Cagr: -0.33%
[DCF] Terminal Value 77.97% ; FCFF base≈19.1b ; Y1≈22.0b ; Y5≈32.3b
[DCF] Fair Price = 527.4 (EV 486b - Net Debt -251b = Equity 737b / Shares 1.40b; r=8.35% [WACC [floored]]; 5y FCF grow 15.0% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: 96.28 | EPS CAGR: 21.25% | SUE: -0.05 | # QB: 0
Revenue Correlation: -63.33 | Revenue CAGR: -7.02% | SUE: 4.0 | # QB: 1
EPS current Quarter (2026-06-30): EPS=5.01 | Chg30d=-1.10% | Revisions=+0% | Analysts=2
EPS next Quarter (2026-09-30): EPS=5.30 | Chg30d=+0.04% | Revisions=+0% | Analysts=2
EPS current Year (2026-12-31): EPS=20.75 | Chg30d=+1.58% | Revisions=+33% | GrowthEPS=+0.6% | GrowthRev=+4.7%
EPS next Year (2027-12-31): EPS=21.47 | Chg30d=+1.10% | Revisions=+33% | GrowthEPS=+3.5% | GrowthRev=+4.1%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: +33%