Berkshire

The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is concentrated in these three stocks as of the end of the first quarter of 2025. What Happened: The foundation has received donations from Gates and the Oracle of Omaha, Warren...

The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, during the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, expressed his disappointment over the depreciating U.S. dollar and said that no one would want to hold assets in a currency that was falling in value. What Happened: Talking about the U.S. dollar, Buffett said...

On Saturday, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) registered a decline in third-quarter operating earnings, driven by weakness in the insurance underwriting segment. The Omaha-based company’s quarterly operating earnings of $10.09 billion slumped over 6% from $10.761 billion in the year-...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK), on Saturday, registered a solid increase in first-quarter operating earnings, driven by strength in its insurance businesses, both in underwriting and investment income. The Omaha-based company's quarterly operating earnings of $11.22 billion rose over...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) on Saturday registered a solid increase in fourth-quarter operating earnings, driven by strength in its insurance businesses, both in underwriting and investment income. The Omaha-based company’s quarterly operating earnings of $8....

The best of the best aren't expected to win every time, and that applies universally, especially in corporate America. Consider for instance billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) who proposed an acquisition of a bankrupt utility company called...

Warren Buffett is having a pretty good week. How good? $12 billion good. Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will not only collect a $12 billion profit in an investment made in Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) six years ago but will also become the...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) isn't the only entity to be sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars of cash. Legendary billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) currently holds $95 billion in cash and can't find proper use for the funds. Speaking as a...

What will Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) fund do with its $86 billion cash hoard that could hit $100 billion by mid-2017? According to a Bloomberg report, the "Oracle of Omaha" could make use of the cash and shop around for a deal valued in the 12-digit...

Warren Buffett released over the weekend his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B)'s shareholders, which according to analysts at Barclays, was consistent with what was expected and didn't include any surprise announcements. Barclays' Jay Gelb highlighted the...

This week, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares over the course of their lives in a philanthropic gift that has been named the largest in the world to date. The couple's shares are currently valued at $45...

Shares of Precision Castparts Corp. (NYSE: PCP) were trading higher by nearly 20 percent mid-Monday after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BKR-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) confirmed it will acquire the company in a deal valued at more than $30 billion and $235 per share. Here's a...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) reported Q1 financial results Friday. Revenues came in at $48.644 billion compared to $45.453 billion in the first quarter of 2014. Operating earnings came in at $4.244 billion, above the $3.533 billion in the prior year period. Operating...