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Berkshire Hathaway
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Berkshire Hathaway trades at 22.65x forward earnings — 82% above peers (vs 14 peers in #Insurance). Price $498.23.
- Forward P/E
- 22.65
- Industry median 12.47
- Current P/E
- 22.47
- Industry median 11.36
- Forward PEG
- NM
- Next fiscal year
- Opportunity Score
- 7
- Below average
Forward P/Edivides today's price by the earnings analysts expect Berkshire Hathaway to make over the next fiscal year — see what forward P/E measures for the full definition. Opportunity Score is a separate, slower 0–100 read on how attractive today looks as a historical entry point — see how it's built.
GAAP earnings run well above the consensus basis used above, consistently rather than from a single volatile quarter — plausibly one-time items, like gains on asset sales, that consensus estimates typically exclude. Worth checking the GAAP figure too before treating this multiple as definitive.