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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: BenSolar ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Current Peak Book Value
Date: 03/15/23 12:05 PM
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I'm starting this thread so we can have a quick place to find BRK's peak book value, which has been put forth as a better indicator of BRK's value than current book value by mungofitch.

Current Peak Book Value, using numbers reported on these boards by longtimebrk in this thread: longtimebrk writes on 20 Years of BV and Market Price

Quarter 1, fiscal year 2022:
$345,469 for A shares.
$230.31 for B shares, dividing by the above A share figure by 1,500.

Later in that thread Aguila gives directions how to compute the quarterly book value precisely:

As found in the Quarter 1 2022 10-Q:

BRK shareholders' equity: $508,141 million
equivalent Class A common stock basis: 1,470,875 shares
Book value: 508,141/1.470875 = $345,469

Also of interest, PickTrader posted his analysis of trend adjusted book value in the following thread, proposing it as a potentially better marker of value than Peak Book. PickTrader writes on Price to Book has been a quick, sim...
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