NYSE:BRK.A 6 December 2025 - 19 May 2026

Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B shares held close to the $500 mark on Wednesday, even as the wider U.S. market slipped. UBS called the conglomerate a defensive pick, though the firm also cast doubt on how much room was left for new share buybacks.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Class B shares climbed 0.9% to close at $480.53 on Friday, beating the broader market. Class A shares rose about 1%, finishing at $722,500. Around 5.1 million Class B shares changed hands.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc starts the week as Wall Street remains closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with risk appetite shaky following new tariff warnings from President Donald Trump. Its Class B shares ended Friday at $493.29, a slight 0.13% gain, while Class A shares closed at $740,750, up 0.28%.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc shares ended 2025 slightly lower on Warren Buffett’s final day as chief executive, as Greg Abel took over the top job at the $1.08 trillion conglomerate at the start of 2026. Class B shares closed down $1.06, or 0.2%, at $502.65, and Berkshire ended September with $381.7 billion of cash and equivalents while it has not said who will take over its $283.2 billion equity portfolio. Reuters

As of 1:27 a.m. in New York on Saturday, December 27, 2025, U.S. stock markets are closed—and Berkshire Hathaway investors are heading into the weekend with two big realities in view: the broader market is hovering near record territory, and Berkshire is days away from its most watched leadership transition in decades.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock heads into Friday’s post-Christmas session with a rare combination of “big picture” catalysts: a historic CEO handoff scheduled for January 1, 2026, a record cash-and-Treasury-bills war chest, and a portfolio that continues to shift away from Apple even as Berkshire initiates a new stake in Alphabet. With U.S. equities returning to a full trading day on Dec. 26 after the holiday closure, investors watching BRK.B and BRK.A are likely to focus less on short-term technical signals and more on what Berkshire’s balance sheet and leadership reshuffle say about 2026. Nasdaq

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is heading into a rare, market-moving moment: the end of Warren Buffett’s six-decade run as chief executive and the start of the Greg Abel era on January 1, 2026. The stock story right now isn’t just “What’s BRK.B trading at?”—it’s “What does Berkshire look like when the most famous allocator of capital in modern finance stops being the allocator-in-chief?”