"Berkshire Hathaway is an American international conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. The business wholly owns GEICO, Duracell, Milk Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, Woodland River and NetJets, as well as likewise owns 38.6% of Pilot Traveling J; and also substantial minority holdings in UNITED STATE public firms Kraft Heinz Company (26.7%), American Express (17.6%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), The Coca-Cola Firm (9.32%), Bank of America (6.8%), and also Apple (5.22%). [4] Starting in 2016, the firm acquired large holdings in the major US airline carriers, particularly United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines [5] but offered all of its airline company holdings early in 2020. [6] Berkshire Hathaway has actually balanced a yearly development in publication worth of 19.0% to its investors given that 1965 (compared to 9.7% from the S&P 500 with returns included for the same period), while employing huge quantities of capital, as well as very little financial obligation.

The firm is known for its control and leadership by Warren Buffett, that works as chairman and also president, as well as by Charlie Munger, among the business's vice-chairmen. In the very early part of his profession at Berkshire, Buffett focused on lasting investments in publicly traded companies, however a lot more just recently he has actually extra regularly gotten entire companies. Berkshire now possesses a diverse range of services consisting of confectionery, retail, railroads, home furnishings, encyclopedias, producers of vacuum, jewelry sales, manufacture and circulation of attires, and several regional electrical and gas energies.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 listing as well as formula, Berkshire Hathaway is the third biggest public business worldwide, the tenth biggest conglomerate by earnings and the largest economic solutions firm by income in the world.

As of 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 the company is renowned for having one of the most costly share price in history with Course A shares costing around $300,000 each. This is due to the fact that there has never been a stock split in its Class A shares and also Buffett specified in a 1984 letter to investors that he does not intend to divide the supply."