For any Berkshire Hathaway stock investors or potential Berkshire Hathaway stock investors, we put together key numbers on BRK.B shares in this daily update. You'll find the last BRK.B stock closing price, where Berkshire Hathaway stock is trading compared to a year ago, the stock's dividend yield, and more... Let's start with where BRK.B stock closed yesterday - at $172.94. From the previous trading session Berkshire Hathaway shares climbed 0.92% or $1.57 . Just looking at the Berkshire Hathaway stock price in a short time frame is not as helpful as looking at a year's worth of share price data, so let's do that... At today's price, BRK.B is trading higher than it was one-year ago, with shares up 19.98%.

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The Berkshire Hathaway stock price 52-week high is $177.86. That was hit on 3/02/2017. The BRK.B stock 52-week low is $141.92, reached on 10/13/2016. Some more numbers to note - BRK.B trading volume yesterday was 2,649,600. That's lower than Berkshire Hathaway stock's average daily trading volume of 2,921,283. Berkshire Hathaway's market capitalization - the amount of shares outstanding times the share price - is 426,620,512,000. That gives Berkshire Hathaway a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of the start of April 2016, 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 24.27. That's less 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.B to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of BRK.B is 9.15. 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 0.88. Berkshire Hathaway stock does not pay a dividend right now. Generally a dividend yield of 2% or more is decent for those investors who want income from dividend stocks. Money Morning gives you Berkshire Hathaway stock news daily. We publish new info on BRK.B 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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