Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NASDAQ:BRK) (NASDAQ:BRK) has outperformed the losses in the S&P 500, while the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ has emerged as the only top 10 billionaire to see a net worth gain on a year-to-date basis in 2025.
What Happened: Shares of Berkshire Hathaway’s class B shares have risen by 9.41% in 2025, being one of the only few S&P 500 components that are still in the green amid the ongoing market selloff. The S&P 500 index, on the other hand, has fallen 13.54% on a year-to-date basis.
While, has been a flurry of speculations over the company’s cash pile, having the liquid form of dollars has helped the company avert losses amid President Donald Trump‘s tariff-fueled crash on Wall Street.
Berkshire Hathaway’s cash and cash equivalents totaled a record $334.2 billion as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2024.
The firm has also added $87.81 billion in investor wealth in 2025 as its market capitalization has risen from $978.19 billion as of Dec. 31, 2024, to …