BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC: retained earnings or deficit
Retained earnings or deficit for BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.
All BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC financial histories
What this measure means
Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.
Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.
Coverage of this history
Selected reporting periods run from 2008-12-31 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.
Selected filing history
| Period start | Period end | Value | Unit | Filed | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At date | 2025-12-31 | 763,186,000,000 | USD | 2026-03-02 | 10-K · 0001193125-26-083899 |
| At date | 2024-12-31 | 696,218,000,000 | USD | 2026-03-02 | 10-K · 0001193125-26-083899 |
| At date | 2023-12-31 | 607,350,000,000 | USD | 2025-02-24 | 10-K · 0000950170-25-025210 |
| At date | 2022-12-31 | 511,127,000,000 | USD | 2024-02-26 | 10-K · 0000950170-24-019719 |
| At date | 2021-12-31 | 534,421,000,000 | USD | 2023-02-27 | 10-K · 0000950170-23-004451 |
| At date | 2021-01-01 | 443,949,000,000 | USD | 2024-02-26 | 10-K · 0000950170-24-019719 |
| At date | 2020-12-31 | 444,626,000,000 | USD | 2022-02-28 | 10-K · 0001564590-22-007322 |
| At date | 2019-12-31 | 402,493,000,000 | USD | 2021-03-01 | 10-K · 0001564590-21-009611 |
| At date | 2018-12-31 | 321,112,000,000 | USD | 2020-02-24 | 10-K · 0001564590-20-005874 |
| At date | 2017-12-31 | 255,786,000,000 | USD | 2019-02-25 | 10-K · 0001193125-19-048926 |
| At date | 2016-12-31 | 210,846,000,000 | USD | 2018-02-26 | 10-K · 0001193125-18-057033 |
| At date | 2015-12-31 | 187,703,000,000 | USD | 2017-02-27 | 10-K · 0001193125-17-056969 |
| At date | 2014-12-31 | 163,620,000,000 | USD | 2016-02-29 | 10-K · 0001193125-16-483023 |
| At date | 2013-12-31 | 143,748,000,000 | USD | 2015-03-02 | 10-K · 0001193125-15-070966 |
| At date | 2012-12-31 | 124,272,000,000 | USD | 2014-03-03 | 10-K · 0001193125-14-078778 |
| At date | 2011-12-31 | 109,448,000,000 | USD | 2013-03-01 | 10-K · 0001193125-13-087679 |
| At date | 2010-12-31 | 99,194,000,000 | USD | 2012-02-27 | 10-K · 0001193125-12-079022 |
| At date | 2009-12-31 | 86,227,000,000 | USD | 2011-02-28 | 10-K · 0001193125-11-048914 |
| At date | 2008-12-31 | 78,172,000,000 | USD | 2010-03-01 | 10-K · 0001193125-10-043450 |
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Inspect the source
- Entity
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC / CIK 0001067983
- Captured
- 2026-09-20T05:19:07.468Z
- SEC response SHA-256
10088d8a156e01c366e55c70d8585b3ee7b70221ecbb7597a1147ece0c511246
Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON
Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.
Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.
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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen
with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0001067983.json") as response:
record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))