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Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 10% YoY2 insiders buyingQuiet on X (0 mentions/wk)
$BRK-B·$1.1T·Insurance - Diversified·Financial Services
$504.03-0.6%1Y+5.2%
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$BRK-BBerkshire Hathaway Inc.
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $BRK-B, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-13

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

Berkshire Hathaway — Warren Buffett's mega-conglomerate — Q2 revenue +10% at $102B, cash pile still record, tape mid-range awaiting the next capital-deployment signal.

Berkshire Hathaway is Warren Buffett's diversified conglomerate — GEICO and other insurance, BNSF Railway, Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, plus a $340B+ equity portfolio and record cash reserves. The ultimate compounder with an enormous cash-deployment optionality overhang.

  • Q2 revenue at $101.8B grew 10% year over year with Q2 EPS coming in at the high end of consensus — the underlying operating businesses continue to execute, and the insurance underwriting profit + investment income combination is producing record cash generation.
  • The July 15 SC 13D/A from Warren Buffett updating his personal Class A holdings is standard governance disclosure, not a strategic signal — the more important watch item is the deployment of the record cash pile (>$300B and growing).
  • Trades at typical Berkshire multiples where valuation is more about book-value growth and future capital deployment than P/E — the market is patient waiting for the next big elephant-gun acquisition.
  • The stock is at 62% of 52-week range — mid-range coiling in a name that's meant for long-duration compounding, not tactical positioning.

What restarts the accelerating call: Nov 2 Q3 earnings plus any large capital-deployment announcement (major acquisition or buyback acceleration). What would invalidate coiling: a broad market correction that pressures Berkshire's equity portfolio marks (the tail risk is a Fed policy error).

What to watch: Nov 2 Q3 earnings — cash pile deployment commentary and any acquisition announcements. Also monitor the equity portfolio composition (Berkshire's Apple, Bank of America positions) for any material changes and Warren Buffett public commentary at the annual meeting.

On the calendar: 2026-11-02 — Q3 earnings

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., established in 1998 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, operates as a vast global conglomerate with diverse business interests. Its core operations primarily encompass insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility services. The company provides a comprehensive suite of insurance and reinsurance products, including coverage for property, casualty, life, accident, and health. Across North America, it manages extensive railway networks dedicated to freight transport. Its utility division is responsible for generating, transmitting, storing, and distributing electricity sourced from various origins such as natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal energy. This segment also oversees natural gas infrastructure, including distribution networks, storage facilities, interstate pipelines, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations, alongside its interests in coal mining. Beyond these foundational sectors, Berkshire Hathaway boasts a significant manufacturing footprint. It produces a wide array of goods ranging from confectionery and specialty chemicals to metal cutting tools and components for both aerospace and power generation applications. Its manufacturing portfolio also extends to flooring products, insulation, roofing materials, engineered building components, paints, coatings, and bricks. The company is also involved in residential construction, offering both manufactured and site-built homes, supplemented by related lending and financial services. Its product offerings further include recreational vehicles, apparel, footwear, jewelry, custom picture framing, and alkaline batteries. On the industrial side, it manufactures specialized components like castings, forgings, fasteners, aerostructures, and precision parts, often utilizing advanced alloys such as cobalt, nickel, and titanium. Additionally, Berkshire Hathaway provides a variety of services, which include distributing electronic components, franchising and servicing quick-service restaurants, offering logistics, grocery, and foodservice distribution, as well as professional aviation training and shared aircraft ownership programs. Finally, the company maintains a substantial retail presence, selling an extensive selection of products such as automobiles, furniture, home appliances, electronics, computers, jewelry, and kitchenware, in addition to motorcycle clothing and equipment.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Insurance - Diversified sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $BRK-B.

Insurance - Diversified · Financial Services

No material change from last week — diversified reinsurers benefit from sustained rate firming as cat loss frequency keeps new-business pricing elevated and global reinsurance demand strong.

Top industry ETF

$KIESPDR S&P Insurance ETF
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
0.0How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-321%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
11.6%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
2.9Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
11.9%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
18.7%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 8, 2026$6.02$5.13+17.3%
Q1 2026May 2, 2026$5.25$5.08+3.3%
Q4 2025Mar 2, 2026$4.73$5.51-14.2%
Q3 2025Nov 3, 2025$14.27$5.39+164.7%
Next earningsSat, Nov 7·consensus EPS $5.60

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$101.8B+10.0%0.0%0.0%$17868.00—
Q1 FY26$93.7B+4.4%28.8%16.1%$4.68$5.5B
Q4 FY25$94.2B-0.7%23.0%13.8%$8.90$5.0B
Q3 FY25$95.0B+2.1%24.6%17.5%$14.28$8.2B

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 2 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$386.1B$378.4B – $393.7B$20.86$20.11 – $21.452
FY27$400.3B$385.9B – $414.6B$21.53$20.80 – $22.512
FY28$367.1B$356.9B – $377.4B$21.80$21.01 – $22.601

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.1×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.58%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+1.7%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+3.1%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 1.4B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.3% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.615-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyAug 12Michael J. O'sullivanSee Remarks488 sh$250KBuyAug 12Charles C ChangSee Remarks2 sh—

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentJul 15SC 13D/A
AI summary

Warren Buffett filed an SC 13D/A amendment for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) on July 15, 2026, updating Item 5 with new information about his personal holdings of Berkshire Class A common stock. This is a routine amendment to Buffett's long-standing 13D as Berkshire's controlling shareholder.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 103
8-KOfficer or director changeMay 78-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.03: Charter amendment · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
3New insider — initial holdingsMay 53
424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Apr 14424B5
424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Apr 2424B5
3New insider — initial holdingsFeb 173
+ 38 other (12 13Gs · 9 11-Ks · 3 S-8 POSs · 3 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Berkshire adds $17 billion to Alphabet stakecnbc.com·17h agoAlphabet Is Berkshire Hathaway's New Favorite Stock After Buying 48 Million Shares247wallst.com·18h agoDividend Stocks Usually Beat Non-Payers. Berkshire Hathaway Is the Exception.fool.com·20h agoWarren Buffett's Successor, Greg Abel, Pared Down Bank of America, and Piled Into a Virtual Monopoly That's Now Berkshire's 3rd-Largest Holdingfool.com·1d agoBerkshire Hathaway doubles down on the U.S. housing market with a fresh bet on this stockmarketwatch.com·1d ago

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