Berkshire Hathaway Stock Price Data

Context

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American holding company, whose conglomerate includes over 80 companies with activities spanning a wide range of business areas, including insurance and reinsurance, rail freight, energy supply, financial services, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail. The chairman is the major US investor and multi-billionaire Warren Buffett.

As of August 2024 Berkshire Hathaway has a market cap of $930.23 Billion. This makes Berkshire Hathaway the world's 8th most valuable company by market cap according to our data. The market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares and is commonly used to measure how much a company is worth.

Content

Geography: USA

Time period: Jan 2015- July 2024

Unit of analysis: Berkshire Hathaway Stock Price Data

Variables

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| date | date |
| open | The price at market open. |
| high | The highest price for that day. |
| low | The lowest price for that day. |
| close | The price at market close, adjusted for splits. |
| adj_close | The closing price after adjustments for all applicable splits and dividend distributions. Data is adjusted using appropriate split and dividend multipliers, adhering to Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) standards. |
| volume | The number of shares traded on that day. |

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