{"id":348038,"date":"2025-11-01T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:18:13","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-brk-earnings-q3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348038\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway BRK earnings Q3 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025.<\/p>\n

David A. Grogen | CNBC<\/p>\n

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> reported a sharp rebound in operating profit on Saturday, while its cash pile swelled to a new high with no buybacks.<\/p>\n

Berkshire’s operating profit generated from the conglomerate’s wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads\u00a0jumped 34% year over year to $13.485 billion in the third quarter. The gains were driven by a more than 200% surge in insurance underwriting income, which rose to $2.37 billion.<\/p>\n

Buffett once again refrained from repurchasing shares despite a significant pullback in the stock. The company said there were no share buybacks during the first nine months of 2025. Class A and B shares of the conglomerate are up 5% each in 2025, while the S&P 500 is up 16.3%.<\/p>\n

Without any buybacks, Berkshire’s cash hoard swelled to a record $381.6 billion, surpassing the previous high of $347.7 billion set in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n

Berkshire also didn’t find other stocks attractive, net selling equities in the third quarter for a taxable gain of $10.4 billion.<\/p>\n

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Berkshire Hathaway class A shares year to date<\/p>\n

The 95-year-old Buffett in May announced\u00a0he’s stepping down as CEO<\/a>\u00a0at the year-end after six legendary decades. Greg Abel, Berkshire’s vice chairman of non-insurance operations, is set to take over as chief executive, while Buffett will remain chairman of the board. Abel will also start writing annual letters in 2026.<\/p>\n

The Omaha-based conglomerate’s shares have tumbled double digits from all-time highs following the announcement. The sell-off partially reflects the so-called Buffett premium, or the extra price investors are willing to pay because of the billionaire’s unmatched record and exceptional capital allocation skills.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0Berkshire announced a deal to buy\u00a0Occidental Petroleum’s<\/a>\u00a0petrochemical unit, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion in cash. The deal marks Berkshire’s largest since 2022, when it paid $11.6 billion for insurer Alleghany.<\/p>\n

Overall earnings, which include gains from Berkshire’s investments in other publicly traded companies, rose 17% to $30.8 billion year on year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71411,9167,7789,133,64,81,3346,135,134,67,132,68,3642],"class_list":{"0":"post-348038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-berkshire-hathaway-inc","9":"tag-breaking-news-business","10":"tag-breaking-news-investing","11":"tag-breaking-news-markets","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-investment-strategy","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-stock-markets","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wall-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115474642352176892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}