FlightSafety International | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway


00:02:44 1 History
00:06:34 2 Corporate affairs
00:11:24 2.1 Governance
00:11:55 2.2 Succession plans
00:13:54 2.3 Finance
00:14:38 3 Businesses and investments
00:14:48 3.1 Insurance group
00:18:41 3.2 Utilities and energy group
00:19:27 3.3 Manufacturing, service and retailing
00:19:38 3.3.1 Clothing
00:20:47 3.3.2 Building products
00:23:27 3.3.3 Flight services
00:24:56 3.3.4 Retail
00:27:47 3.3.5 Media
00:29:23 3.3.6 Real Estate
00:31:00 3.3.7 Other non-insurance
00:34:18 3.4 Finance and financial products
00:34:56 3.5 Investments
00:40:32 3.5.1 Investments in Amazon.com Inc.
00:41:15 3.5.2 Investment in Apple Inc.
00:43:08 3.5.3 Investments in US airlines
00:44:19 3.5.4 Prior Investments
00:45:17 3.5.5 Subsidiaries and equity holdings
00:45:27 4 Assets
00:45:35 5 See also
00:45:48 6 Notes
00:45:56 7 External links



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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The company wholly owns GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and also owns 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; 26.7% of the Kraft Heinz Company, and significant minority holdings in American Express (17.6%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), The Coca-Cola Company (9.4%), Bank of America (6.8%), and Apple (5.22%). Since 2016, the company has acquired large holdings in the major US airline carriers, and is currently the largest shareholder in United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, and a top three shareholder in Southwest Airlines and American Airlines. Berkshire Hathaway has averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.0% to its shareholders since 1965 (compared to 9.7% from the S&P 500 with dividends included for the same period), while employing large amounts of capital, and minimal debt.The company is known for its control and leadership by Warren Buffett, who serves as chairman and chief executive, and Charlie Munger, the company's vice chairman. In the early part of his career at Berkshire, Buffett focused on long-term investments in publicly traded companies, but more recently he has more frequently bought whole companies. Berkshire now owns a diverse range of businesses including confectionery, retail, railroads, home furnishings, encyclopedias, manufacturers of vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales, newspaper publishing, manufacture and distribution of uniforms, and several regional electric and gas utilities.
According to the Forbes Global 2000 list and formula, Berkshire Hathaway is the third largest public company in the world, the tenth largest conglomerate by revenue and the largest financial services company by revenue in the world.As of February 2019, Berkshire the fifth largest company in the S&P 500 Index by market capitalization, and is famous for having the most expensive share price in history with Class A shares costing around $300,000 each. This is due to the fact that there has never been a stock split in its Class A shares and Buffett has stated in a 1984 letter to shareholders that he does not intend to split the stock.