BRK-B - Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
| Previous Close | 204.43 |
| Open | 203.28 |
| Bid | 200.44 x 1100 |
| Ask | 0.00 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 200.06 - 204.01 |
| 52 Week Range | 184.75 - 224.07 |
| Volume | 5,872,384 |
| Avg. Volume | 4,588,327 |
| Market Cap | 493.68B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 0.74 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 123.04 |
| EPS (TTM) | 1.63 |
| Earnings Date | N/A |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 239.67 |
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That's a huge figure for a retailing company.Indeed's recent survey of workplace satisfaction also showed employees appreciated other aspects besides the base pay. Costco is known for having great benefits including generous vacation pay, and it promotes heavily from within. You can make a good argument that Costco's superior team of employees has been a defining reason why its stock has crushed most other retailers over the past 25 years. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)Source: Shutterstock The Indeed survey specifically mentioned Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A,NYSE:BRK.B) subsidiary Aflac as one of its best places to work. While Aflac is known for its humorous advertising, apparently it has also set itself apart from the competition by treating its employees well. That's a trait that runs broadly across the Berkshire Hathaway set of companies. 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Capital One (COF)Source: Shutterstock Like Aflac, Capital One (NYSE:COF) is another large financial corporation that interacts with thousands of customers every day across its multitude of branches. In fact, Capital One is now one of the nation's 10 largest banks. In the competitive world of big banking, any edge can help in terms of attracting and retaining customers. Capital One has chosen to give its employees generous benefits as part of its effort to distinguish itself from rival banks. And the approach appears to be working. COF stock has reached new all-time highs after the financial crisis; that's an achievement that many other banks still haven't managed.What sets Capital One apart? According to Indeed, the company offers particularly generous health and wellness benefits. These include 18 weeks of maternity leave and assistance with adoption services, for example. One employee that Indeed quoted said that the most difficult part was, "taking advantage of all the benefits." That's not a bad problem to have. With the stock trading at just 7x earnings, Capital One is clearly doing well enough to reward both its shareholders and employees generously. FedEx (FDX)Source: Mike Mozart via Flickr Trucking and transportation isn't the first area you'd probably think of when trying to find companies with particularly happy employees. But give FedEx (NYSE:FDX) credit for topping expectations. The popular conception of a truck driver is a lonely, difficult, and stressful life. Listen to someone like Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang talk about truckers, and you'd think it were one of the worst jobs in the world. Yet, FedEx is able to keep its employees happy. It has done so, in large part by offering generous benefits to its employees. Importantly, it offers these benefits even to its part-time staff. 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An Apple product is an aspirational one. People keep buying Apple phones habitually, regardless of the cost and comparisons to competitors' products, in large part due to this effect.And a big part of that comes from keeping Apple's reputation spotless. Apple helps achieve this by making sure its employees are delighted to work there. Like others on this list, Apple offers extremely generous benefits, the most appealing of which may be its policy of giving nearly a month of vacation days every year. American companies are notably stingy with vacation days, as opposed to European and Japanese firms. This difference gives Apple a key competitive edge in finding and retaining the best employees against stiff competition across the tech industry.At the time of this writing, Ian Bezek owned BRK.B and FDX stock. You can reach him on Twitter at @irbezek. 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