Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) is a holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States that owns 19 consumer brands across 6 categories, and has 4 recorded transactions.[1][2]
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company built by Warren Buffett from a failing textile mill. Alongside insurance and railroads it owns consumer businesses outright and holds large minority stakes in others, including Kraft Heinz and The Coca-Cola Company.
Headline figures from Berkshire Hathaway's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025. Revenue moved from $166.7bn to $247.2bn, an average of 8.2% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $247.2bn | — | — | $67bn | $1222.2bn | — | 10-K | |
| $249.7bn | — | — | $89bn | $1153.9bn | — | 10-K | |
| $254.9bn | — | — | $96.2bn | $1070bn | — | 10-K | |
| $207.8bn | — | — | $-22,759,000,000 | $948.5bn | — | 10-K | |
| $191.3bn | — | — | $89.9bn | $959.4bn | — | 10-K | |
| $166.7bn | — | — | $42.5bn | $873.7bn | — | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Berkshire Hathaway acquired Duracell from Procter & Gamble in a share exchange worth about $4.7 billion, handing back its P&G stock rather than paying cash. Structuring it as an exchange avoided a large capital gains charge on shares Berkshire had held since the Gillette merger.
Berkshire Hathaway acquired Fruit of the Loom out of bankruptcy for about $835 million in cash. The underwear maker had collapsed under debt, and Berkshire bought the operating business rather than the holding company that had failed.
Berkshire Hathaway acquired International Dairy Queen for about $585 million. Almost every Dairy Queen is franchised, so Berkshire owns the brand and the system rather than the restaurants.
Berkshire Hathaway bought See's Candies for $25 million. Warren Buffett has repeatedly described it as the purchase that taught him to pay up for a business with pricing power rather than hunt for statistically cheap ones, and it has returned many times its cost.
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Change to articles or bylaws; Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Change to articles or bylaws |
Berkshire Hathaway owns 19 consumer brands tracked here, including Dairy Queen, Duracell, See's Candies, Fruit of the Loom, Brooks Running and BNSF Railway.
Yes. Berkshire Hathaway is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States and was founded in 1839.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Duracell on 29 February 2016.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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