Overview
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company whose segments include insurance and reinsurance, the BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Pilot Travel Centers, manufacturing and the McLane distribution business.[2] Fortune classifies it as a property and casualty insurer and records fiscal 2025 revenue of US$371.4bn, profit of US$66,968m and assets of US$1,222.2bn, the largest figures of any company in that category.[1] Because its revenue includes the non-insurance subsidiaries, its lead over specialist insurers overstates the size of its insurance operations.
Berkshire Hathaway strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Largest revenue and profit of any company Fortune classes as an insurer
- Very large capital base
Limitations
- Revenue includes railway, energy, manufacturing and retail businesses, not only insurance
- Not directly comparable with specialist insurers
Appears in
- Largest Companies in the World by Revenue (2026) #11
- Largest Employers in the US (2026) #9
- Largest Insurance Companies in the World (2026) #1
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