BRK-B - Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

NYSE - NYSE Delayed Price. Currency in USD
188.91
+0.05 (+0.03%)
At close: 4:02PM EDT
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Previous Close188.86
Open190.00
Bid0.00 x 1000
Ask189.18 x 800
Day's Range188.66 - 190.48
52 Week Range166.78 - 217.62
Volume6,996,675
Avg. Volume4,100,200
Market Cap466.143B
Beta0.86
PE Ratio (TTM)11.73
EPS (TTM)16.11
Earnings DateN/A
Forward Dividend & YieldN/A (N/A)
Ex-Dividend DateN/A
1y Target Est233.50
Trade prices are not sourced from all markets
  • MarketWatch12 hours ago

    Here’s how Atul Gawande and the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health-care venture could slash costs 15%-20%

    Negotiate package prices. The new health-care venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced on June 20 that Harvard professor and well-known author Atul Gawande would be the company’s CEO. The idea for the new company is to innovate by cutting costs from the health-care system, starting with the more than 1 million employees of the three companies behind the venture.

  • InvestorPlace12 hours ago

    Buffett, Bezos and Dimon Found Their CEO — Now Comes the Hard Part

    If you’re a medical practitioner being asked by Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon to head up a potentially historical healthcare initiative that conveniently doesn’t have to worry about making money has got to feel like winning the Powerball lottery. Boston-based surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande, metaphorically speaking, has been given the keys to the candy store, tasked with finding healthcare delivery solutions for the employees of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) that lower the cost while improving the experience. It is hoped that by using these three companies as guinea pigs, the lessons learned through Dr. Gawande’s initiative could be rolled out to other Americans, ultimately changing the trajectory of America’s healthcare system for the better.

  • CNBC14 hours ago

    Here's what dinner with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates is like, according to their Omaha waitress

    As the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett built what was once a struggling textile mill into a financial conglomerate now worth $472 billion BRK.A . Both captains of industry are billionaires many times over: Buffett is worth $81.4 billion according to Forbes , and Bill Gates is worth $92.3 billion. Not so, Ellen Augustine tells CNBC Make It.

  • Investopedia17 hours ago

    How Berkshire Should Prepare for Life After Buffett

    Widely lauded as the world's greatest investor, multi-billionaire Warren Buffett also is one of the richest people on earth, as a direct result of having built Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ( BRK.A) into one of the most valuable public companies on the planet. Barron's columnist Andrew Bary argues that succession planning at Berkshire, as well as some key strategic pivots, are long overdue. Much of the mystique surrounding Buffett comes from the spectacularly outsized returns that Berkshire generated in its first three decades under his leadership.

  • Study: These DFW companies rank among America's most valuable brands
    American City Business Journals17 hours ago

    Study: These DFW companies rank among America's most valuable brands

    Texas companies fared very well on the 500 Most Valuable American Brands 2018 list – and the North Texas region raked in 29 companies on the list.

  • Reutersyesterday

    Head of new U.S. corporate health plan cites surgery as biggest cost

    Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thursday cited surgery as the single biggest U.S. healthcare cost and said there are ways to both cut costs and improve patient care. Speaking in San Diego at the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance trade association, Gawande also said that end-of-life care needs to take into account the wishes of patients, something which he said is now sorely lacking.

  • TheStreet.comyesterday

    Why Warren Buffett's Investment Style Is Fumbling the Ball

    Omaha! Every time Warren Buffett is mentioned, I think of Peyton Manning's ardent line-of-scrimmage call and wonder if the wisdom of the Oracle is location-specific. To "lose" to the market by 280 basis points over a five-year period is really an unacceptable performance, and it shows the lack of exposure to technology, which is endemic to Berkshire. You don't need to go to Morningstar to know that Berkshire shares have lagged the Nasdaq by a huge amount over the past five years, and that is the problem with Buffett's investing style.

  • Reutersyesterday

    Head of new U.S. corporate health plan cites surgery as biggest cost

    Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thursday cited surgery as the single biggest U.S. healthcare cost and said there are ways to both cut costs and improve patient care. Speaking in San Diego at the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance trade association, Gawande also said that end-of-life care needs to take into account the wishes of patients, something which he said is now sorely lacking. Gawande, who practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and as an author has made a name for himself as a critic of medical practices, said some of the focus on the high cost of health care in the United States is misplaced.

  • Atul Gawande Says His Goal Is Better Health Care for 1 Million Workers
    Bloombergyesterday

    Atul Gawande Says His Goal Is Better Health Care for 1 Million Workers

    Atul Gawande, named to head a new health-care venture jointly formed by Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., said he’s now in a position to reduce waste and improve medical treatment for a million workers. “We will come to a place where we can generate scalable solutions that change the practice of medicine,” Gawande said at the America’s Health Insurance Plans conference in San Diego on Thursday, a day after he was appointed chief executive officer of the health-care partnership. The not-for-profit startup aims to improve care and lower costs for the three companies by creating systems that connect complex medical services with patient counseling while reducing waste caused by irrelevant tests or costly treatment that doesn’t improve quality of life, Gawande said, citing his research as a medical journalist.

  • Will Amazon's Entry Into Healthcare Disrupt the Market?
    Zacks2 days ago

    Will Amazon's Entry Into Healthcare Disrupt the Market?

    Appointment of a CEO for the healthcare alliance of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan marks invasion in the space.

  • MarketWatch2 days ago

    Amazon-Berkshire-JP Morgan health initiative makes an out-of-the-box choice for CEO

    Dr. Atul Gawande, an accomplished surgeon, writer and Harvard professor, has been named the chief executive officer of a new health-care initiative started by Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. The new independent venture has as its goal improving health care for the three companies’ more than a million combined U.S. employees, as well as making it more cost-effective. “We said at the outset that the degree of difficulty is high and success is going to require an expert’s knowledge, a beginner’s mind, and a long-term orientation,” Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said in the Wednesday release.

  • The Wall Street Journal2 days ago

    [$$] Gawande to Head Health Venture of Berkshire, Amazon, JPMorgan

    Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. named prominent surgeon and researcher Atul Gawande as chief executive of their new venture that aims to overhaul workers’ health care. The appointment of Dr. Gawande is effective July 9, and the still-unnamed health-care initiative will be based in Boston, the companies said. The selection of Dr. Gawande, a best-selling author known for his work on health-care quality, ensures the effort will remain under a spotlight, and provides the most concrete signal so far that the partners’ ambitions go beyond conventional tweaks to employer health-benefit plans.

  • Reuters2 days ago

    Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan name Atul Gawande CEO of healthcare venture

    Well-regarded surgeon and author Atul Gawande, a critic of his industry's medical practices, will lead the new company being formed by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) that aims to cut U.S. employee healthcare costs, the companies said on Wednesday. Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan announced the joint venture in January, saying U.S. healthcare costs were rising too fast and holding back economic growth.

  • Here’s what Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway’s health initiative could look like
    Yahoo Finance Video12 hours ago

    Here’s what Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway’s health initiative could look like

    Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith and Jen Rogers, as well as Benchmark CEO Kevin Kelly, discuss the rise of direct primary care and discuss why this model could be a part of Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway’s health initiative.