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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Security Holder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
Berkshire’s Class A and Class B common stock are listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange, trading symbols: BRK.A and BRK.B, respectively.
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Shareholders
Berkshire had approximately 1,100 record holders of its Class A common stock and 16,800 record holders of its Class B common stock at February 10, 2025. Record owners included nominees holding at least 319,000 shares of Class A common stock and 1,332,000,000 shares of Class B common stock on behalf of beneficial-but-not-of-record owners.
Dividends
Berkshire has not declared a cash dividend since 1967.
Common Stock Repurchase Program
Berkshire’s common stock repurchase program permits Berkshire to repurchase its Class A and Class B shares at any time that Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, believes that the repurchase price is below Berkshire’s intrinsic value, conservatively determined. Repurchases may be in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions. No Class A or Class B shares were repurchased in the fourth quarter of 2024.
| Period | Total number of shares purchased | Average price paid per share | Total number of shares purchased as part of publicly announced program | Maximum number or value of shares that yet may be repurchased under the program | ||||||||||
| October | — | $ | — | — | * | |||||||||
| November | — | $ | — | — | * | |||||||||
| December | — | $ | — | — | * |
** The program does not specify a maximum number of shares to be repurchased or obligate Berkshire to repurchase any specific dollar amount or number of Class A or Class B shares and there is no expiration date to the repurchase program. Berkshire will not repurchase its common stock if the repurchases reduce the value of Berkshire’s consolidated cash, cash equivalents and U.S. Treasury Bills holdings to less than $30 billion.*
Stock Performance Graph
The following chart compares the value of $100 invested in Berkshire common stock on December 31, 2019 and subsequent values with a similar investment in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index and in the Standard & Poor’s Property & Casualty Insurance Index.**
** Cumulative return for the Standard & Poor’s indices based on reinvestment of dividends.*
*** It is difficult to develop a group of companies comparable to Berkshire. Berkshire owns subsidiaries engaged in numerous diverse business activities of which an important component is the property and casualty insurance business. Accordingly, Berkshire uses the Standard & Poor’s Property & Casualty Insurance Index for comparative purposes.*
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