Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B

Berkshire Hathaway’s latest SEC filings landed this week like a slow-moving convoy of filing trail: four S-8 forms on Wednesday to top up share authorisations for employee compensation, and a fresh 11-K for the 401(k) plan showing 132,943 shares sold and retired in 2025. The company’s preference for regulatory thoroughness over narrative flair is nothing new, but the sheer volume of filings in a single week still reads like a filing trail stack auditioning for a role in a bureaucracy film festival. (source: SEC EDGAR S-8 POS filings, 2026-06-22, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526277638/d22632ds8pos.htm)

Berkshire Hathaway is a diversified holding company whose operating businesses span insurance, railroads, energy, manufacturing, and consumer products, with an investment portfolio that famously includes household names like Geico, BNSF Railway, and Dairy Queen. The company’s scale is best measured in billions rather than products, but its inventory line item-$25.52 billion on the books as of March 31, 2026-suggests it still keeps a few physical assets around, even if the real magic happens in the allocation of capital rather than the turnover of widgets. (source: BRK-B 10-Q, 2026-05-04, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526202243/brka-20260331.htm)

The first-quarter 2026 filing lays bare the company’s financial plumbing: $93.67 billion in total revenues, $63.14 billion labelled “Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax,” $10.11 billion in net income attributable to shareholders, and $727.18 billion of shareholders’ equity. Operating cash flow clocked $10.44 billion, while capital expenditures gobbled up $4.99 billion-numbers that look less like dry accounting entries and more like the receipts from a very large, very disciplined shopping spree. Inventory rose $1.01 billion from the prior period to $25.52 billion, a line item that invites speculation about whether Berkshire is hoarding raw materials, finished goods, or simply ensuring its accounting shelves are tidy enough for an auditor’s white-glove inspection. (source: BRK-B 10-Q, 2026-05-04, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526202243/brka-20260331.htm)

For context on the company’s regulatory footprint, the SEC submissions JSON page and the companyfacts JSON feed offer a real-time ledger of Berkshire’s filings, exhibits, and XBRL data points. These are not marketing brochures; they are the raw transcripts of corporate disclosure, where every footnote, every schedule, every hypercited exhibit is preserved like a fossil in amber. If the source requires readers to know how Berkshire talks to the world, these files are the transcript; if you need colour, you’ll need to look elsewhere. (source: BRK-B SEC submissions JSON, https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001067983.json; BRK.B SEC companyfacts JSON, https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001067983.json)

The company’s latest 11-K filing for the 401(k) plan confirms that 132,943 shares were sold and retired during 2025, exchanged for other eligible investments in the plan-corporate jargon that translates to “we swapped stock for alternative investments because we could.” The filing does not disclose which investments, leaving shareholders to imagine a treasure chest of Berkshire-approved alternatives ranging from Treasury bonds to a private farm in Nebraska. The absence of detail is deliberate: Berkshire’s disclosure style favours completeness over colour, which means the 11-K reads like a technical manual rather than a storybook. (source: BRK.B 11-K (2026-06-25), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526282257/brka-20251231.htm)

Berkshire’s recent 8-K from May 7, 2026, confirms the release of first-quarter 2026 earnings, while the April 16, 2026 8-K documents the issuance of senior notes through Mizuho Securities USA LLC and Merrill Lynch International. These are bread-and-butter capital-markets moves rather than headline-grabbers, but they underscore a company that treats its balance sheet like a fortress and its disclosure like a steady drumbeat. There are no surprises here-just the quiet hum of a machine that keeps running whether the markets are calm or chaotic. (source: BRK-B SEC EDGAR 8-K (2026-05-07), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526212148/d74313d8k.htm; BRK-B SEC EDGAR 8-K (2026-04-16), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526159326/d903301d8k.htm)

Chart context: The SEC does not provide a trading chart, but the company’s filings, cash flows, and capital allocation decisions are the real story. If you’re looking for a technical view, the standard equity rails (e.g., TradingView) will show the price action, but this file focuses on what Berkshire actually does versus how its shares trade. The gap between disclosure and drama is where the interest lies: Berkshire’s numbers are immense, its disclosure is meticulous, and its reputation for predictability is only occasionally punctured by the occasional share repurchase or bolt-on acquisition. (source: SEC EDGAR index, https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1067983)