"Berkshire Hathaway is an American international conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The firm entirely has GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Products Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, Forest River and NetJets, as well as additionally has 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; as well as significant minority holdings in UNITED STATE public firms Kraft Heinz Business (26.7%), American Express (17.6%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), The Coca-Cola Business (9.32%), Financial Institution of America (6.8%), and also Apple (5.22%). [4] Beginning in 2016, the company got huge holdings in the major US airline company service providers, specifically United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and also American Airlines [5] however sold every one of its airline holdings early in 2020. [6] Berkshire Hathaway has actually averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.0% to its shareholders given that 1965 (compared to 9.7% from the S&P 500 with returns consisted of for the exact same period), while employing huge amounts of capital, and also very little financial debt.

The business is recognized for its control as well as management by Warren Buffett, that functions as chairman and also chief executive, as well as by Charlie Munger, one of the company's vice-chairmen. In the early part of his profession at Berkshire, Buffett concentrated on long-term financial investments in openly traded companies, but more recently he has actually a lot more regularly gotten entire firms. Berkshire currently has a diverse range of companies consisting of confectionery, retail, railroads, decor, encyclopedias, manufacturers of hoover, jewelry sales, manufacture and also distribution of attires, and several regional electrical and gas utilities.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list and formula, Berkshire Hathaway is the 3rd biggest public firm on the planet, the tenth largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest monetary services business by profits in the world.

Since April 2020, Berkshire's Class B supply is the eighth-largest part of the S&P 500 Index (which is based upon free-float market capitalization) as well as the business is renowned for having the most expensive share cost in background with Class A shares setting you back around $300,000 each. This is due to the fact that there has never been a supply split in its Class A shares and Buffett specified in a 1984 letter to investors that he does not mean to divide the supply."