GCEIP 500 Company profile
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Berkshire’s 2025 filing reports $23.3 billion in railroad revenue and $21.9 billion in utility and energy revenue. The figures sit alongside a much larger insurance, manufacturing, service and retail portfolio.
The company
What it does
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company with operating businesses in insurance, rail transport, utilities and energy, manufacturing, services and retail. It also holds a large investment portfolio. Results from a subsidiary or investment are not automatically treated as a Berkshire award or operating result.
Across markets
The 2025 Form 10-K reports $88.9 billion in insurance premiums earned, $23.3 billion in railroad transportation revenue and $21.9 billion in utility and energy operating revenue. These businesses touch insurance markets, freight movement and electricity supply. Their reach and effects vary by subsidiary and geography, so the group total should not be read as one uniform global footprint. The figures describe activity, not service quality, safety outcomes or environmental performance.
The company’s footprint and context are linked to the public sources below.
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What the record tells us
TIME selected Berkshire Hathaway for its 2025 TIME100 Companies list, an editorial placement that contributes one provisional list point in this research ledger. Fortune placed it fifth in the 2025 World’s Most Admired Companies All-Stars survey; that reputation result remains under programme review and earns no point at present. The two records reflect different selection processes and neither is a category-based judged award. The company’s operating scale explains the attention, while the recognition count remains separate from a judgement about performance.
Published recognition
Selected results
See published awards and company-list results 2 sources
- TIME100 Most Influential Companies · 2025View source
TIME100 Companies selection
Named by TIME editors among 105 businesses for company-specific influence, impact, innovation, ambition or success; analysis of the specific business case pending
- Fortune World's Most Admired Companies All-Stars · 2025View source
Insurance: Property and Casualty
Overall All-Stars rank #5; published industry: Insurance: Property and Casualty