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856612.00 USD Market data. Sources for Share priceClose of Nov 6, 2026

Market data as of Nov 6, 2026. Ratios computed Nov 7, 2026.

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NYSE / Financial Services / Insurance - Diversified

Reading

The evidence behind it

Overview

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

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Valuation

Price to earnings

18.26x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

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Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

n/m Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Why n/m

For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.

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Strength

Debt to equity

n/a Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

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Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 215.11B USDFY2016 Net income: 24.07B USDFY2017 Revenue: 239.93B USDFY2017 Net income: 44.94B USDFY2018 Revenue: 247.84B USDFY2018 Net income: 4.02B USDFY2019 Revenue: 254.62B USDFY2019 Net income: 81.42B USDFY2020 Revenue: 245.58B USDFY2020 Net income: 42.52B USDFY2021 Revenue: 276.19B USDFY2021 Net income: 89.94B USDFY2022 Revenue: 302.02B USDFY2022 Net income: -22.76B USDFY2023 Revenue: 364.48B USDFY2023 Net income: 96.22B USDFY2024 Revenue: 371.43B USDFY2024 Net income: 89.00B USDFY2025 Revenue: 371.44B USDFY2025 Net income: 66.97B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Market capitalisation
1.22T USD Market data. Sources for Market capitalisationClose of Nov 6, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 2, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 18.26x at the close of 2026-11-06 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (658 companies), 18.26x sits at the 65th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 11.40x to 24.48x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (740 companies), 9.3% sits at the 50th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.7% to 13.7%.

Year by year against peers
Whether Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial Services sector, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (3 of sixteen figures read for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.)

These are BRK-A’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-083899.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 25 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 15 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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