Quick Read – Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) holds $397 billion in cash and short-term investments, nearly triple its 2022 level of $129 billion. – Berkshire’s forward P/E of 24 implies earnings compression ahead, with analyst targets offering less than 3% upside from current prices….
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The number in this article’s headline highlights just how massive Berkshire’s real cash hoard has become, and its size raises questions about what the company can still do with it. The Number $397.4 billion. That is Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) cash and short-term investments as of Q1 2026 (March 31), per its balance sheet.
I’m of the view that this number has likely already eclipsed $400 billion (given the clip at which the company has been selling assets, and choose to not reinvest). Notably, this figure has kept climbing, with Berkshire’s cash pile a year earlier standing at $347.7 billion. Three years earlier (at the end of 2022), it was $128.6 billion.