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Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company with a wide array of subsidiaries engaged in diverse activities. The firm's core business segment is insurance, run primarily through Geico, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group, and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. Berkshire has used the excess cash thrown off from its operations to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (railroad), Berkshire Hathaway Energy (utilities and energy distributors), and the companies that make up its manufacturing, service, and retailing operations (which include Precision Castparts, Lubrizol, Clayton Homes, Marmon, and IMC/ISCAR). The conglomerate is unique in that it is run on a completely decentralized basis. Berkshire is expected to generate close to $375 billion in revenue in 2025.
Berkshire Hathaway New trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BRK.B.
As of August 21, 2026, BRK.B stock price declined to $495.82 with 3,817,347 million shares trading.
BRK.B has a beta of 0.17, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BRK.B has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
BRK.B has a market cap of $1.07 trillion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, BRK.B traded as high as $542.07 and as low as $330.58.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that BRK.B belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VTV.
BRK.B has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +1.5% while the SPY ETF gained +21.2%. BRK.B has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +3.1% and -5.5%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.6% and -0.4%, respectively.
BRK.B support price is $491.63 and resistance is $502.09 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BRK.B shares will trade within this expected range on the day.