Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., established in 1839 by Oliver Chace as the Valley Falls Company in Valley Falls, Rode Island, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company which is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. has a rich history that started with it as a textile manufacturing company which merged with the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1929 to form Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates.

There was a merger between Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates and Hathaway Manufacturing Company in 1955 led to the birth of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. which had 15 plants and over 12,000 employees with its headquarters based in New Bedford.

Warren Buffet started purchasing stock in Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. after he had noticed a particular pattern concerning the price direction of its stock whenever a mill was closed.

This led Buffet to believe that the textile business was on the decline and that the financial situation as result of this was not going to improve.

Seabury Stanton, who at the time had been running Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. made an oral tender offer of $11½ per share to enable the company to buy back the shares that Buffett had in the company.

Buffet agreed to this deal but upon receiving the written tender offer, the offer had only been for $11⅜ per share and this resulted in Buffett purchasing more of the stock in an attempt to take control of the company.

This resulted in Buffett becoming the majority owner of a textile business that was inevitably failing. While maintaining the core business, Buffet expanded into the insurance industry in 1967 along with several other investments.

This led Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. into its first insurance business venture when National Indemnity Company was purchased followed by an acquisition on an equity stake in the Government Employees Insurance Company in 1970s.

This acquisition still forms the core of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.’s insurance operations today. By 1985, the last of the Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. textile operations had been shut down.

By 2007, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. was the most respected company in the world and 2008 brought along an investment in the preferred stock of Goldman Sachs which formed part of a recapitalization of the investment bank.

By 2016, Buffett owned 31.7% aggregate voting power pertaining to Berkshire Hathaway’s shares which were outstanding in addition to 18.0% of the economic value pertaining to those specific shares.

As of early 2025, Berkshire’s class A shares were priced at and sold for $339,188 which made them the highest-priced shares on the New York Stock Exchange, this due to the reason that they had never experienced a stock split.

Another reason for this is that Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. has only paid dividends out once since Warren Buffett had taken over which allowed Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. to retain corporate earnings on its balance sheet in an impermissible manner for mutual funds.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. oversees a high-value, extensive and vast product portfolio of diversified investments, property and casualty insurance, utilities, restaurants, food processing, aerospace, toys, media, automotive, and several others.

As of 2018, the staff compliment for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. comprised of approximately 389,300 employees.

Today, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. wholly owns companies including, but not limited to GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, and several others in addition with owning 38.6% of Pilot Flying.

Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. has averaged an annual growth book value of approximately 19% to its shareholders while simultaneously employing significantly large amounts of capital with minimal debt.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. is the third largest public company in the world according to the Forbes Global 2000 in addition to being, the tenth largest conglomerate purely based on revenue and it is also the largest company globally providing financial services.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.’s Class B Stock is to date the eight largest component which forms part of the S&P 500 component along with being famous for having the most expensive price on shares in history due to the lack of a stock split in the Class A shares.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. has seen a 20% decline in shares, but there is a substantial backup plan that was formulated specifically for challenging times such as the current pandemic.

Despite being advised by shareholders and analysts alike to spend Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.’s cash on buybacks or more acquisitions, Buffett held firm and allowed cash to accumulate.

This provides Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with an approximate $128 billion safety net should the need arise to use it as economies, markets, and other sectors crack under the impact of Covid-19.

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. trades its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the stock symbols BRK.A (Class A Shares) and BRK.B (Class B Shares) and it forms part of both the S&P 100 and S&P 500 components under the stock symbol BRK.B.

Data from an analysis done on the market performance for the first quarter of 2025, which ended in March, indicates that the total revenue accumulated amounted to $61,265 million, slightly higher than the first quarter of 2019 which amounted to $60,678 million.

Of the total revenue, insurance and other operations accumulated $51,378 and Railroad, utilities and energy accumulated $9,887 million. Investment and derivative contract gains (losses) amounted to $70,275 million.

Despite losses and the financial implications tied to the Covid-19 pandemic, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.’s total revenues are notably higher when compared to the first quarter of 2019.

Net cash flow from operating activities, when compared between the first quarters of both 2025 and 2019, show a slight decrease from $7,577 million in 2019 to $6,798 million in 2025.

While the unaudited cash flows from investing activities have indicated a substantial increase from the first quarter of 2019 at $10,201 to $27, 804 million in 2025.

Despite the market performance and the financial results arising from the first quarter, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. is forecasted to be one of the few companies to emerge even stronger from the pandemic, due to prior preparations for exactly such challenging times

Shareholders who buy or sell shares can expect lucrative dividends and returns as Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. keeps a firm hand on ensuring a balanced sheet in 2025.

Any upcoming possible losses are to be used in support when and should shares reach some significant lows during the ongoing pandemic with the only concern being whether this approach will be sustainable depending on the duration of the pandemic.

Financial services provision

Conglomerate

Investment, insurance, consumer products

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