Berkshire Hathaway ROE 2012-2026 | BRK.B

Current and historical return on equity (ROE) values for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) over the last 10 years. Return on equity can be defined as the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation's profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.
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Berkshire Hathaway ROE - Return on Equity Historical Data
Date TTM Net Income Shareholder's Equity Return on Equity
2026-06-30 $85.77B $724.94B 11.83%
2026-03-31 $72.47B $704.97B 10.28%
2025-12-31 $66.97B $686.79B 9.75%
2025-09-30 $67.46B $669.78B 10.07%
2025-06-30 $62.92B $652.62B 9.64%
2025-03-31 $80.90B $637.04B 12.70%
2024-12-31 $89.00B $617.30B 14.42%
2024-09-30 $106.88B $596.27B 17.92%
2024-06-30 $67.86B $571.19B 11.88%
2024-03-31 $73.42B $556.34B 13.20%
2023-12-31 $96.22B $540.16B 17.81%
2023-09-30 $76.73B $518.70B 14.79%
2023-06-30 $86.70B $501.76B 17.28%
2023-03-31 $7.16B $482.04B 1.49%
2022-12-31 $-22.76B $482.99B -4.71%
2022-09-30 $-1.05B $491.30B -0.21%
2022-06-30 $12.09B $495.63B 2.44%
2022-03-31 $83.81B $497.92B 16.83%
2021-12-31 $89.94B $482.75B 18.63%
2021-09-30 $85.98B $466.85B 18.42%
2021-06-30 $105.78B $451.38B 23.43%
2021-03-31 $103.98B $431.00B 24.13%
2020-12-31 $42.52B $410.76B 10.35%
2020-09-30 $35.85B $405.07B 8.85%
2020-06-30 $22.23B $400.65B 5.55%
2020-03-31 $10.01B $397.94B 2.52%
2019-12-31 $81.42B $397.28B 20.49%
2019-09-30 $26.87B $378.26B 7.10%
2019-06-30 $28.88B $372.73B 7.75%
2019-03-31 $26.82B $366.57B 7.32%
2018-12-31 $4.02B $361.18B 1.11%
2018-09-30 $61.96B $361.05B 17.16%
2018-06-30 $47.49B $344.15B 13.80%
2018-03-31 $39.74B $329.74B 12.05%
2017-12-31 $44.94B $316.05B 14.22%
2017-09-30 $18.68B $299.41B 6.24%
2017-06-30 $21.81B $289.60B 7.53%
2017-03-31 $22.55B $280.15B 8.05%
2016-12-31 $24.07B $271.54B 8.87%
2016-09-30 $23.27B $264.83B 8.79%
2016-06-30 $25.50B $259.51B 9.82%
2016-03-31 $24.51B $255.25B 9.60%
2015-12-31 $24.08B $251.00B 9.59%
2015-09-30 $22.76B $247.10B 9.21%
2015-06-30 $17.95B $244.34B 7.35%
2015-03-31 $20.33B $241.23B 8.43%
2014-12-31 $19.87B $237.60B 8.36%
2014-09-30 $20.71B $232.96B 8.89%
2014-06-30 $21.14B $225.74B 9.37%
2014-03-31 $19.29B $217.80B 8.86%
2013-12-31 $19.48B $210.75B 9.24%
2013-09-30 $19.04B $202.53B 9.40%
2013-06-30 $17.90B $196.94B 9.09%
2013-03-31 $16.47B $191.12B 8.62%
2012-12-31 $14.82B $185.66B 7.98%
2012-09-30 $13.32B $180.01B 7.40%
2012-06-30 $11.68B $173.71B 6.72%
2012-03-31 $11.99B $169.97B 7.05%
2011-12-31 $10.25B $165.97B 6.18%
2011-09-30 $11.58B $164.47B 7.04%
2011-06-30 $12.29B $162.15B 7.58%
2011-03-31 $10.85B $157.33B 6.89%
2010-12-31 $12.97B $154.24B 8.41%
2010-09-30 $11.65B $147.46B 7.90%
2010-06-30 $11.90B $141.48B 8.41%
2010-03-31 $13.22B $134.31B 9.84%
2009-12-31 $8.06B $123.06B 6.55%
2009-09-30 $5.12B $117.54B 4.35%
2009-06-30 $2.94B $114.91B 2.55%
2009-03-31 $2.52B $114.69B 2.20%
2008-12-31 $4.99B $117.81B 4.24%
2008-09-30 $7.82B $119.56B 6.54%
2008-06-30 $11.32B $119.50B 9.47%
2008-03-31 $11.56B $118.82B 9.73%
2007-12-31 $13.21B $116.45B 11.35%
2007-09-30 $13.85B $113.37B 12.22%
2007-06-30 $12.07B $108.96B 11.08%
2007-03-31 $11.30B $104.54B 10.81%
2006-12-31 $11.02B $100.91B 10.92%
2006-09-30 $12.56B $96.67B 12.99%
2006-06-30 $10.38B $93.49B 11.10%
2006-03-31 $9.48B $91.11B 10.40%
2005-12-31 $8.53B $88.89B 9.59%
2005-09-30 $6.74B $87.49B 7.70%
2005-06-30 $7.29B $85.28B 8.55%
2005-03-31 $7.12B $83.37B 8.54%
2004-12-31 $7.31B $81.69B 8.95%
2004-09-30 $6.36B $79.61B 7.98%
2004-06-30 $7.02B $77.43B 9.07%
2004-03-31 $7.97B $74.97B 10.63%
2003-12-31 $8.15B $71.38B 11.42%
2003-09-30 $6.95B $67.99B 10.22%
2003-06-30 $6.28B $65.65B 9.57%
2003-03-31 $5.10B $63.60B 8.02%
2002-12-31 $4.29B $62.38B 6.87%
2002-09-30 $3.20B $60.86B 5.25%
2002-06-30 $1.38B $59.48B 2.32%
2002-03-31 $1.11B $58.57B 1.89%
2001-12-31 $0.80B $58.05B 1.37%
2001-09-30 $1.78B $58.99B 3.02%
2001-06-30 $3.26B $59.56B 5.47%
2001-03-31 $3.13B $59.27B 5.28%
2000-12-31 $3.33B $58.75B 5.66%
2000-09-30 $2.27B $57.76B 3.93%
2000-06-30 $1.89B $56.74B 3.33%
2000-03-31 $1.82B $56.85B 3.21%
1999-12-31 $1.56B $57.25B 2.72%
1999-09-30 $2.10B $57.16B 3.67%
1999-06-30 $2.05B $51.07B 4.00%
1999-03-31 $2.65B $45.79B 5.79%
1998-12-31 $2.83B $40.01B 7.07%
1998-09-30 $3.24B $33.53B 9.65%
1998-06-30 $3.24B $32.79B 9.88%
1998-03-31 $2.34B $30.56B 7.66%
1997-12-31 $1.90B $27.92B 6.81%
1997-09-30 $1.29B $25.91B 4.99%
1997-06-30 $1.19B $24.20B 4.92%
1997-03-31 $1.10B $22.20B 4.97%
1996-12-31 $2.49B $20.69B 12.03%
1996-09-30 $2.39B $19.01B 12.59%
1996-06-30 $2.32B $17.76B 13.08%
1996-03-31 $2.33B $16.44B 14.15%
1995-12-31 $0.78B $15.15B 5.12%
1995-09-30 $0.60B $13.93B 4.29%
1995-06-30 $0.51B $12.74B 4.00%
1995-03-31 $0.48B $11.76B 4.10%
1994-12-31 $0.50B $11.13B 4.45%
1994-09-30 $0.93B $10.77B 8.62%
1994-06-30 $0.85B $10.26B 8.24%
1994-03-31 $0.79B $9.83B 8.06%
1993-12-31 $0.69B $9.53B 7.23%
1993-09-30 $0.37B $9.15B 4.02%
1993-06-30 $0.38B $8.84B 4.33%
1993-03-31 $0.37B $8.57B 4.30%
1992-12-31 $0.41B $8.16B 4.97%
1992-09-30 $0.29B $7.79B 3.69%
1992-06-30 $0.34B $7.41B 4.62%
1992-03-31 $0.36B $6.92B 5.23%
1991-12-31 $0.44B $6.49B 6.78%
1991-09-30 $0.48B $5.97B 8.06%
1991-06-30 $0.48B $5.51B 8.67%
1991-03-31 $0.45B $5.35B 8.49%
1990-12-31 $0.39B $5.08B 7.74%
1990-09-30 $0.38B $4.99B 7.60%
1990-06-30 $0.41B $4.94B 8.32%
1990-03-31 $0.40B $4.62B 8.75%
1989-12-31 $0.45B $4.34B 10.31%
1989-09-30 $0.46B $3.96B 11.55%
1989-06-30 $0.42B $3.63B 11.59%
1989-03-31 $0.43B $3.36B 12.71%
1988-12-31 $0.40B $3.20B 12.46%
1988-09-30 $0.35B $3.06B 11.28%
1988-06-30 $0.32B $3.01B 10.65%
1988-03-31 $0.27B $2.98B 9.15%
1987-12-31 $0.23B $2.91B 8.04%
Sector Industry Market Cap Revenue
Finance Property, Casualty and Title Insurance $1102.359B $371.444B
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company, which owns subsidiaries in insurance, rail roads, utilities, manufacturing services, retail and home building. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and insurance basis, a freight rail transportation business and a group of utility and energy generation and distribution businesses. It has four major operating sectors - The Insurance group (includes GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company writes private passenger automobile insurance); General Re (conducts reinsurance business, offering property and casualty, life and health coverage to clients worldwide); Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (underwrites excess-of-loss reinsurance and quota-share coverage for insurers and reinsurers globally); Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (comprises a wide variety of independently-managed insurance businesses that principally write liability coverage for commercial accounts).
Stock Name Country Market Cap PE Ratio
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) United States $1101.424B 23.11
Chubb (CB) Switzerland $131.886B 11.75
Progressive (PGR) United States $128.495B 11.93
Sampo (SAXPY) Finland $115.421B 17.11
Tokio Marine Holdings (TKOMY) Japan $102.483B 19.55
Travelers (TRV) United States $78.852B 10.21
Allstate (ALL) United States $65.359B 5.73
MS&AD Insurances (MSADY) Japan $50.389B 7.85
Hartford Insurance (HIG) United States $37.269B 9.59
Fairfax Financial Holdings (FRFHF) Canada $33.966B 7.99
Arch Capital Group (ACGL) Bermuda $33.423B 9.06
Intact Financial (IFCZF) Canada $32.702B 14.71
Cincinnati Financial (CINF) United States $26.401B 17.64
W.R Berkley (WRB) United States $26.309B 14.77
RenaissanceRe Holdings (RNR) Bermuda $13.738B 5.94
CNA Financial (CNA) United States $13.013B 10.28
American Financial (AFG) United States $11.916B 12.36
Kinsale Capital (KNSL) United States $8.289B 16.79
Hanover Insurance (THG) United States $8.050B 10.78
First American Financial (FAF) United States $7.469B 10.30
Axis Capital Holdings (AXS) Bermuda $7.297B 7.84
Essent Group (ESNT) Bermuda $6.184B 9.60
Mercury General (MCY) United States $5.729B 7.11
RLI (RLI) United States $5.629B 17.88
Selective Insurance (SIGI) United States $5.327B 11.23
White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM) United States $4.909B 17.04
Hagerty (HGTY) United States $4.787B 92.87
Palomar Holdings (PLMR) United States $3.620B 17.13
NMI Holdings Inc (NMIH) United States $3.319B 8.70
Skyward Specialty Insurance (SKWD) United States $2.591B 12.23
HCI (HCI) United States $2.320B 8.04
Stewart Information Services (STC) United States $2.046B 12.27
Safety Insurance (SAFT) United States $1.516B 24.02
Exzeo (XZO) United States $1.473B 16.68
United Fire (UFCS) United States $1.425B 10.15
ProAssurance (PRA) United States $1.290B 14.37
Donegal (DGICA) United States $1.283B 10.40
UNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS INC (UVE) United States $1.244B 6.07
Bowhead Specialty Holdings (BOW) United States $1.111B 17.75
Heritage Insurance Holdings (HRTG) United States $1.043B 5.00
Donegal (DGICB) United States $0.928B 14.44
Root (ROOT) United States $0.842B 15.66
Investors Title (ITIC) United States $0.571B 14.17
American Integrity Insurance (AII) United States $0.519B 5.72
Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE) Cayman Islands $0.490B 10.22
American Coastal Insurance (ACIC) United States $0.442B 5.09
Global Indemnity (GBLI) United States $0.438B 11.19
Kingsway Financial Services (KFS) United States $0.329B 0.00
NI Holdings (NODK) United States $0.309B 39.79
Kingstone (KINS) United States $0.286B 7.89
Kingsway (KWY) United States $0.285B 0.00
First Acceptance (FACO) United States $0.223B 6.09
Roadzen (RDZN) United States $0.098B 0.00