Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in several business activities. Co.'s segments include: Insurance and Reinsurance Businesses, which provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty and life, accident and health risks; Railroad Business, which operates railroad systems in North America; Utilities and Energy Businesses, which generate, transmit, store, distribute and supply energy; Manufacturing Businesses, which include industrial products, building products and consumer products; and Service and Retailing Businesses, with service businesses providing grocery and foodservice distribution and retailing businesses including automotive operation. The BRK.A YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the BRK.A YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether BRK.A YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the BRK.A YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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