For any Berkshire Hathaway stock investors or potential Berkshire Hathaway stock investors, we put together key numbers on BRK.A shares in this daily update. You'll find the last BRK.A stock closing price, where Berkshire Hathaway stock is trading compared to a year ago, the stock's dividend yield, and more... First, BRK.A shares went up 0.55% or $1,399.98 from the day before. That brought the Berkshire Hathaway stock closing price to $257,500.00. Looking at the 52-week highs and lows for BRK.An is a good way to make sense of the current price, so let's do that now... The Berkshire Hathaway stock price is higher than it was last year at this time, with the stock price having risen by 16.90%.

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The Berkshire Hathaway stock price 52-week high is $266,445.00. That was hit on 3/02/2017. The BRK.A stock 52-week low is $213,030.00, reached on 10/13/2016. Some more numbers to note - BRK.A trading volume yesterday was 200. That's not quite as high as Berkshire Hathaway stock's average daily trading volume of 224. Berkshire Hathaway's market cap is 422,300,000,000. That gives Berkshire Hathaway a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of the beginning of April, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Berkshire Hathaway stock is 24.21. That's smaller than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare BRK.A to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of BRK.An is 13,713.00. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Berkshire Hathaway is 0.87. Berkshire Hathaway stock does not pay a dividend right now. Most income investors look for "dividend stocks" that have a yield of 2% or more, but there are different factors that affect the health of a company's payout. Money Morning gives you Berkshire Hathaway stock news daily. We publish new info on BRK.An and dozens of other key companies we're watching now, every day, so investors will never miss an opportunity. As always, our content is free.

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