Berkshire Hathaway

American multinational conglomerate holding company
Organization business Q217583
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 19 annual filings
Revenue
$247.24B
▼ 1.0% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$66.97B
▼ 24.8% YoY FY2025
Assets
$1.22T
▲ 5.9% YoY FY2025
EPS (diluted)
$3035.00
FY2013
$0.00$70.10B$140.20B$210.30B$280.40B FY2007: $118.25B · NI $13.21B (11.2% margin)FY2008: $107.79B · NI $4.99B (4.6% margin)FY2009: $112.49B · NI $8.05B (7.2% margin)FY2010: $136.19B · NI $12.97B (9.5% margin)FY2011: $143.69B · NI $10.25B (7.1% margin)FY2012: $162.46B · NI $14.82B (9.1% margin)FY2013: $182.15B · NI $19.48B (10.7% margin)FY2014: $194.70B · NI $19.87B (10.2% margin)FY2015: $210.94B · NI $24.08B (11.4% margin)FY2016: $215.11B · NI $24.07B (11.2% margin)FY2017: $239.93B · NI $44.94B (18.7% margin)FY2018: $175.44B · NI $4.02B (2.3% margin)FY2019: $176.51B · NI $81.42B (46.1% margin)FY2020: $166.73B · NI $42.52B (25.5% margin)FY2021: $191.25B · NI $89.94B (47.0% margin)FY2022: $207.77B · NI -$22.76B (-11.0% margin)FY2023: $254.91B · NI $96.22B (37.7% margin)FY2024: $249.71B · NI $89.00B (35.6% margin)FY2025: $247.24B · NI $66.97B (27.1% margin) '07'09'11'13'15'17'19'21'23'25
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-12-31 · accession 0001193125-26-083899

Summary

Berkshire Hathaway is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 0.024% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,830 views/month, #7 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: company[4], holding company[5], enterprise[6], public company[7]
  • Founder: Oliver Chace[8]
  • Owned by: Warren Buffett[9], Charlie Munger[10], David Gottesman[11], Bill Gates[12], Fidelity Investments[13]
  • Named after: Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates[14], Hathaway Mills[15]
  • Headquarters location: Omaha[16]
  • Chief executive officer: Greg Abel[17]
  • Child organization or unit: GEICO[18], NetJets[19], Berkshire Hathaway Energy[20], Marmon Group[21], Central States Indemnity[22], Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies[23], General Re Corporation[24], Medical Protective[25], National Indemnity Company[26], Acme Brick[27], Ben Bridge Jeweler[28], Benjamin Moore & Co.[29], Borsheim's Fine Jewelry[30], Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation[31]
  • Part of: S&P 500[32], S&P 100[33]
  • Commons category: Berkshire Hathaway[34]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[35]
  • Industry: conglomerate[36], insurance[37], aircraft industry[38]
  • Chairperson: Howard Graham Buffett[39]
  • Inception: 1955[40], 1839[41], June 16, 1998[42]
  • Location of formation: Omaha[43]
  • Official website: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/[44]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Berkshire Hathaway[45]
  • Described at URL: https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/berkshire-hathaway-inc-history/[46]
  • Employees: 361,270[47], 360,000[48]
  • Replaces: Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates[49]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[50]
  • Native label: Berkshire Hathaway[51]
  • Owner of: American Express[52], Charter Communications[53], The Coca-Cola Company[54], IBM[55], Moody's Corporation[56], Phillips 66[57]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 5493000C01ZX7D35SD85[58]

  • Registered legal name: Berkshire Hathaway INC.[59]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[60]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[61]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[62]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[63]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[64]

  • Entity created: 1998-06-16[65]

  • LEI first registered: 2015-03-13[66]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-08-21[67]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-08-21[68]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[69]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[70]

  • Authority entity ID: 2908471[71]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[72]

Why It Matters

Berkshire Hathaway has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[73] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[74]

References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  14. [71] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [72] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [73] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [74] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24d ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Levels.fyi company id → berkshire-hathaway
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Levels.fyi company id: berkshire-hathaway, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/324839791|berkshire hathaway (#324839791)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8504"
  2. 4w ago · ~2026-35460-07 · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Chairperson → Howard Graham Buffett
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Chairperson: Howard Graham Buffett"
  3. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → FC40-39E8-0833-191D-40B0
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: FC40-39E8-0833-191D-40B0, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  4. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani id → berkshire-hathaway
    Harper's tag → berkshire-hathaway-inc
    Treccani's enciclopedia italiana id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: berkshire-hathaway-inc, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911878|berkshire hathaway inc (#289911878)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalo"
  5. 19w ago · Ossistyl · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani's enciclopedia italiana id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Treccani's enciclopedia italiana id: berkshire-hathaway"
  6. 20w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Chief executive officer → Greg Abel
    Central index key → 0001067983
    Named after → —
    Described at url → —
    + 143 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||es */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; normalize text; replace property; split multiple reference URLs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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