Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate holding company led by Warren Buffett. Revenue comes from insurance (GEICO, reinsurance), railroads (BNSF), utilities, manufacturing, and investments. This page converts the annual estimate into a per-second pace to make the scale easier to compare and teach.

Revenue from the most recent annual report. Per-second rate divides annual revenue by 31,536,000. The underlying annual number comes from Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report; the counter is a simple visualization and does not model tax, timing, or quarter-to-quarter seasonality.

This page combines a short profile, methodology notes, and source links (for example: Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report). It is an educational visualization of scale — not financial, investment, or legal advice.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is shown here as an annual revenue or turnover-style total of $364B, expressed as $11,542.3643 each second for the sake of scale. Corporations rarely earn in a perfectly even stream; quarters beat estimates, product cycles spike, and FX moves matter. Our model is intentionally simple so you can compare one company to another and to people or government budgets on the same page type.

At this annualized pace, the rough orders of magnitude are about $692,541.86 per minute, $41,552,511.42 per hour, and $997,260,273.97 per day. The chart and counter help answer "how big is this business in human time?" rather than replacing a 10-K or investor presentation. Always read official filings for precision.

Figures are synthesized from public materials and summaries; typical attribution includes Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report. We may round to significant digits. Stock prices and analyst revenue consensus change — our totals are snapshots for illustration. Mergers, restatements, and segment reporting can all shift the "right" annual number.