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Berkshire Hathaway's share price increased by less than 1%, a ho-hum move despite Apple's great quarterly update. On Jan. 27, 2022, Apple again posted terrific results.
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
Berkshire’s A shares have never split. However, to attract small investors, the company introduced B shares (NYSE: BRK.B). Today, a B share is about 1/1,500 the size of an A share.
Since then, Booking shares have skyrocketed, and its share price is now approaching $4,000 a share, making it higher than any other U.S. stock except for homebuilder NVR and Berkshire Hathaway ...
However, in 1996, Berkshire Hathaway created Class B shares, with a per-share value of 1 ⁄ 30 of that of the original shares (now Class A) and 1 ⁄ 200 of the per-share voting rights, and after the January 2010 split, at 1 ⁄ 1,500 the price and 1 ⁄ 10,000 the voting rights of the Class-A shares. Holders of class A stock are allowed to ...
The highest share prices on the NYSE have been those of Berkshire Hathaway class A, trading at over $625,000/share (in February 2024). Berkshire Hathaway has refused to split its stock and make it more affordable to retail investors, as they want to attract shareholders with a long-term vision.
The Oracle of Omaha has increased Berkshire Hathaway's stake by 262% in the only brand-name company set to conduct a reverse-stock split.
Berkshire Hathaway has never conducted a stock split on its A shares. But, as you can see in the graph above comparing Berkshire's A shares to the S&P 500 Index , it has grown massively over time.