Every material Form 8-K Berkshire Hathaway filed with the SEC in 2023, read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). Newest first; each brief links to its own page and to the filing on SEC.gov.
Berkshire Hathaway reported a third-quarter 2023 net loss attributable to shareholders of $12.8 billion, compared with a $2.8 billion loss a year earlier, driven by $23.5 billion of investment and derivative losses. Operating earnings, which exclude those investment results, rose to $10.8 billion from $7.7 billion. For the first nine months, net earnings were $58.6 billion, compared with a $40.8 billion loss in the same period of 2022.
Q3 2023 net loss attributable to Berkshire shareholders: $12.8 billion, versus $2.8 billion in Q3 2022
Q3 2023 operating earnings: $10.8 billion, up from $7.7 billion; insurance-underwriting earnings were $2.4 billion versus a $1.1 billion loss
Q3 2023 railroad earnings fell to $1.2 billion from $1.4 billion; utilities and energy fell to $498 million from $1.6 billion
Nine-month 2023 net earnings: $58.6 billion; about $7.0 billion used to repurchase shares through September 30, 2023
Berkshire Hathaway reported second-quarter 2023 net earnings attributable to shareholders of $35.9 billion, compared with a net loss of $43.6 billion in the second quarter of 2022. Operating earnings, which exclude investment and derivative gains and losses, rose to $10.0 billion from $9.4 billion, and the company said it repurchased about $1.4 billion of its shares during the quarter.
Net earnings were $35.9 billion in Q2 2023 versus a $43.6 billion loss in Q2 2022; investment and derivative gains were $25.9 billion, compared with losses of $53.0 billion a year earlier.
Operating earnings were $10.0 billion in Q2 2023, up from $9.4 billion in Q2 2022.
Berkshire repurchased about $1.4 billion of its shares in Q2 2023, bringing the six-month total to $5.8 billion.
Insurance float was about $166 billion at June 30, 2023, up about $2 billion from year-end 2022.
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