Berkshire Hathaway | Technology Sector
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Berkshire’s operating earnings jump 34%, Buffett buys back no stock and raises cash hoard to $381 billion.Berkshire’s operating profit generated from the conglomerate’s wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads jumped 34% year over year to $13.485 billion in the third quarter. Without any buybacks, Berkshire’s cash hoard swelled to a record $381.6 billion, surpassing the previous high of $347.7 billion set in the first quarter of this year. Berkshire’s operating profit generated from the conglomerate’s wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads jumped 34% year over year to $13.485 billion in the third quarter. The gains were driven by a more than 200% surge in insurance underwriting income, which rose to $2.37 billion. |
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Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings dip 4% as conglomerate braces for tariff impact. Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday reported a small decline in second-quarter operating earnings as Warren Buffett’s conglomerate warns of negative impacts from steep U.S. tariffs. Berkshire’s operating profit — those from the company’s wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads — dipped 4% year over year to $11.16 billion in the second quarter. The results were impacted by a decline in insurance underwriting, while railroad, energy, manufacturing, service and retailing all saw higher profits from a year ago. |
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Q2-2025 |
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Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings drop more than expected as Buffett warns of tariff uncertainty. Operating earnings, which include the conglomerate’s fully owned insurance and railroad businesses, fell 14% to $9.64 billion during the first three months of the year. Much of that decline was driven by a 48.6% plunge in insurance-underwriting profit. Berkshire said President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other geopolitical risks created an uncertain environment for the conglomerate, owner of BNSF railway, Brooks Running and Geico insurance. |
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Q1-2025 |
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Berkshire operating earnings surge 71% in fourth quarter, cash hoard balloons to record $334 billion. The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate said its operating profit — which encompasses earnings from the company’s wholly owned businesses — skyrocketed to $14.527 billion during the final three months of 2024.The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate said its operating profit — which encompasses earnings from the company’s wholly owned businesses — skyrocketed 71% to $14.527 billion during the final three months of 2024. That was led by a whopping 302% jump in insurance underwriting from the year-earlier period to $3.409 billion. Insurance investment income also ballooned by nearly 50% to $4.088 billion. Operating earnings also popped 27% for the full year, coming in at $47.437 billion. |
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Berkshire Hathaway Earnings: Cash Balances Hit $358 Billion on Mostly Solid Results Across the Firm. With Berkshire’s third-quarter operating results being in line with our expectations, we expect to keep our recently revised $765,000 ($510) per Class A (B) share fair value in place and view the shares as slightly to modestly undervalued. Adjusted operating earnings increased 33.6% year over year to $13.5 billion, as solid insurance results were augmented by solid results across most of the firm’s operations. |
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Warren Buffett raises Berkshire cash level to record $277 billion after slashing stock holdings. Berkshire Hathaway ’s cash pile swelled to a record $276.9 billion last quarter as Warren Buffett sold big chunks in stock holdings including Apple. The Omaha-based conglomerate’s cash hoard jumped significantly higher from the previous record of $189 billion, set in the first quarter of 2024. The increase came after the Oracle of Omaha sold nearly half of his stake in Tim Cook-led tech giant in the second quarter. |
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Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings soar 39% as Buffett’s cash hoard swells to record $188 billion. The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate posted an operating profit — which encompasses earnings from the company’s wholly owned businesses — that surged 39% to $11.22 billion from the year-earlier period. That gain was led by a 185% year-on-year increase in insurance underwriting earnings to $2.598 billion from just $911 million. |
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Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings jump 28% in the fourth quarter, cash pile surges to record. Berkshire Hathaway posted operating earnings — which refers to profits from businesses across insurance, railroads and utilities — of $8.481 billion in the fourth quarter. Operating earnings rose to $37.350 billion in 2023, up 17% from $30.853 billion in the prior year. Berkshire held $167.6 billion in cash in the fourth quarter, a record level that surpasses the $157.2 billion the conglomerate held in the prior quarter. |
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Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings, cash pile swells to a record $157 billion. The Omaha-based conglomerate’s operating earnings totaled $10.761 billion last quarter, 40.6% higher than the number from the same quarter a year ago. Berkshire held a record level of cash at the end of September — $157.2 billion. The “Oracle of Omaha” has been taking advantage of surging bond yields, buying up short-term Treasury bills yielding at least 5%. Geico, the crown jewel of Berkshire’s insurance empire, reported another profitable quarter. |
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Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings rise nearly 7%, cash pile approaches $150 billion. The Omaha-based conglomerate’s operating earnings totaled $10.043 billion last quarter, 6.6% higher than the figure from the same quarter a year ago. Net income totaled $35.91 billion, compared with a $43.62 billion loss during the second quarter last year. Berkshire’s massive cash pile grew to $147.377 billion at the end of June, near a record and much higher than the $130.616 billion in the first quarter. |
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Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings increase 12% in the first quarter, cash hoard tops $130 billion. Operating earnings, which encompass profits from the conglomerate’s fully-owned businesses, totaled $8.065 billion in the first quarter. That’s up 12.6% from $7.16 billion a year prior. Profit from insurance underwriting came in at $911 million, up sharply from $167 million a year prior. Insurance investment income also jumped 68% to $1.969 billion from $1.170 billion |
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Berkshire Hathaway fourth-quarter operating earnings fall 8%, cash hoard swells to nearly $130 billion. Berkshire Hathaway ’s operating profits fell during the fourth quarter as inflationary pressures weighed on the conglomerate’s businesses. Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings totaled $6.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, a release read Saturday. That’s down 7.9% from the year-earlier period when profits totaled $7.285 billion. Operating earnings refers to the total profits made from the businesses owned by the conglomerate. |
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Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings jump 20%, conglomerate buys back another $1 billion in stock. erkshire’s operating earnings totaled $7.761 billion in the third quarter, up 20% from year-earlier period. The conglomerate spent $1.05 billion in share repurchases, bringing the nine-month total to $5.25 billion. The Omaha-based company suffered a $10.1 billion loss on its investments during the third quarter’s market turmoil, however. |
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Berkshire Hathaway reports operating earnings surge, but posts big investment loss amid market rout. The conglomerate’s operating earnings totaled $9.283 billion in the second quarter of 2022, marking a 38.8% increase from a year ago. However, the company posted a $53 billion loss on its investments during the quarter. Warren Buffett again asked investors to not focus on the quarterly fluctuations in its equity investments. |
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Berkshire earnings decline in the first quarter on slowing economic growth, stock market pullback. The company’s net earnings came in at $5.46 billion, down more than 53% from $11.71 billion in the year-earlier period. Berkshire’s operating earnings were flat year over year at $7.04 billion. This comes amid a sharp drop in the company’s insurance underwriting business.The flat operating results were impacted by the slowing U.S. economy, which contracted in the first quarter for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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Berkshire’s operating earnings surge as Buffett repurchases record $27 billion in stock during 2021. The company’s operating earnings — which encompass profits made from the myriad of businesses owned by the conglomerate — totaled $7.285 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. That’s up roughly 45% from the year-earlier period’s profit of $5.021 billion. Berkshire used $6.9 billion to buy back shares in the fourth quarter, bringing the total in share repurchases to a record $27 billion for 2021. |
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Berkshire’s operating earnings pop 18% last quarter with Buffett’s cash pile at record $149 billion. Berkshire reported operating income of $6.47 billion in the third quarter, rising 18% from $5.48 billion in the same quarter a year ago. At the end of September, Berkshire’s cash pile reached a record $149.2 billion. The record amount of cash came despite Berkshire’s aggressive share buybacks. |
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Q3-2021 |
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Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings jump 21% as recovering economy boosts railroad, energy units. Berkshire Hathaway reported operating earnings of $6.69 billion in the second quarter, up 21% from $5.51 billion in the same period a year ago. Overall earnings, which reflect Berkshire’s fluctuating equity investments, increased 6.8% year over year to $28 billion in the second quarter. Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett kept buying back Berkshire shares aggressively instead of making sizable acquisitions. |
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Q2-2021 |
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Berkshire Hathaway’s operating earnings jump, Buffett continues to buy back stock. Berkshire Hathaway reported operating income of $7.018 billion in the first quarter, up 20% from $5.871 billion in the same period a year ago. During the first quarter, the company bought back $6.6 billion of Berkshire shares, after a record $24.7 billion in buybacks last year in lieu of deal-making. Berkshire’s cash pile grew about 5% during the quarter to more than $145.4 billion |
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Buffett is buying back more Berkshire stock this year after record $25 billion repurchase in 2020. Berkshire Q4 Profit Up 23%. Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) reported that its fourth-quarter net earnings attributable to shareholders rose about 23 percent to $35.84 billion from last year's $29.16 billion, with earnings per share improving to $23,015 per Class A share from $17,909 per Class A share in the prior year. Operating earnings for the fourth-quarter grew to $5.02 billion from $4.42 billion in the previous year. Total revenues for the fourth-quarter declined to $64.38 billion from $65.37 billion in the prior year. |
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