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Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B stock (BRK.B) live: the price, what a Class A share costs, the chart, its results, its cash pile and the news moving it.
- After hours
- $548.20 +0.22% 7:57 PM ET
- Day’s range
- $542.01–$549.96
- 52-week range
- $464.01–$549.96
- Volume
- 5.7M
The chart fills in as the desk logs prices.
What’s moving Berkshire Hathaway
The headlines from the last three days that the LemonTrades desk scored highest for BRKB, with why each one matters.
No big Berkshire Hathaway headlines in the last three days.
Class A and Class B
| One Class B share (BRK.B) | $547.28 | +1.19% |
| One Class A share (BRK.A)worth 1,500 Class B shares | ≈ $820,920 | |
A Class A share can be converted into 1,500 Class B shares at any time, which keeps the two prices in step.
Berkshire Hathaway stock chart
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Daily closes, split-adjusted. Highest close: $547.28 on Oct 22, 2026, 0.0% from here.
BRKB returns
| Period | BRKB then | Return | $1,000 became |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 weekOct 15, 2026 | $525.68 | +4.1% | $1,041 |
| 1 monthSep 22, 2026 | $503.49 | +8.7% | $1,087 |
| 6 monthsApr 23, 2026 | $470.55 | +16.3% | $1,163 |
| This yearDec 31, 2025 | $502.65 | +8.9% | $1,089 |
| 1 yearOct 22, 2025 | $491.81 | +11.3% | $1,113 |
| 3 yearsOct 20, 2023 | $335.86 | +62.9% | $1,629 |
| 5 yearsOct 22, 2021 | $289.24 | +89.2% | $1,892 |
| 10 yearsOct 21, 2016 | $143.60 | +281.1% | $3,811 |
| Since listingMay 9, 1996 | $23.20 | +2,259.0% | $23,590 |
About Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is the conglomerate Warren Buffett built. It owns GEICO and other insurers, the BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy and dozens of other businesses outright, plus a stock portfolio led by Apple and American Express. Greg Abel became CEO on January 1, 2026; Buffett stayed on as chairman.
What moves BRKB stock
- Operating earnings from insurance, the railroad and the energy business, reported each quarter.
- The cash pile: about $365 billion at the end of June 2026, and what Abel spends it on.
- Buybacks: Berkshire buys back its own shares only when it thinks they’re cheap, so investors read them as a signal.
- Its stock portfolio, disclosed every quarter in a 13F filing.
Q2 2026 results (August 8, 2026)
- Operating earnings of $12.98 billion, up from $11.16 billion a year earlier.
- About $4.5 billion of share buybacks and a $10 billion investment in Alphabet.
- Cash fell to about $365.5 billion from nearly $400 billion at the end of March. Berkshire sold the last of its Amazon shares in the first quarter.
Sources: AP via WTOP: Abel spends a chunk of the cash pile · Yahoo Finance: the Amazon sale
Questions
What is BRKB stock’s price today?
$547.28 at the last trade, updated every minute above.
What’s the difference between BRK.A and BRK.B?
One Class A share equals 1,500 Class B shares. Class A shares carry more votes and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each; Class B shares, created in 1996 and split 50-for-1 in 2010, let ordinary investors buy in.
Does Berkshire Hathaway pay a dividend?
No. It has paid only one, in 1967; it prefers to reinvest its profits or buy back shares.
Who runs Berkshire Hathaway now?
Greg Abel, CEO since January 1, 2026. Warren Buffett remains chairman.
Did Berkshire sell its Amazon stock?
Yes: 77% in late 2025 and the rest in early 2026. See Warren Buffett’s Amazon stock sale.
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