"Berkshire Hathaway is an American international conglomerate holding business headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The firm completely possesses GEICO, Duracell, Milk Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, Woodland River and also NetJets, and likewise possesses 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; as well as significant minority holdings in U.S. public firms Kraft Heinz Business (26.7%), American Express (17.6%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), The Coca-Cola Firm (9.32%), Bank of America (6.8%), as well as Apple (5.22%). [4] Starting in 2016, the business acquired huge holdings in the major United States airline service providers, namely United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines as well as American Airlines [5] however marketed every one of its airline company holdings early in 2020. [6] Berkshire Hathaway has balanced a yearly development in book value of 19.0% to its investors since 1965 (contrasted to 9.7% from the S&P 500 with rewards consisted of for the same period), while utilizing big quantities of capital, and also marginal financial debt.

The business is known for its control as well as management by Warren Buffett, who serves as chairman and also chief executive, and by Charlie Munger, one of the company's vice-chairmen. In the early part of his career at Berkshire, Buffett focused on lasting financial investments in openly traded firms, but a lot more recently he has actually more frequently acquired entire business. Berkshire now has a varied series of companies consisting of confectionery, retail, railways, furnishings, encyclopedias, manufacturers of vacuum, fashion jewelry sales, manufacture and also circulation of attires, as well as numerous local electrical as well as gas energies.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list and formula, Berkshire Hathaway is the 3rd biggest public firm worldwide, the tenth largest corporation by earnings and the largest monetary solutions company by revenue worldwide.

Since April 2020, Berkshire's Course B stock is the eighth-largest component of the S&P 500 Index (which is based upon free-float market capitalization) and also the company is renowned for having the most expensive share price in history with Course A shares setting you back around $300,000 each. This is due to the fact that there has actually never ever been a stock split in its Course A shares and Buffett stated in a 1984 letter to shareholders that he does not intend to divide the supply."