Berkshire Hathaway Inc. operates in the Fire, marine, and casualty insurance sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with three other
insurance companies in North America:
Anthem Inc
(2020
sales of $121.87 billion
of which 59%
was Government Business),
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
($257.14 billion
of which 78%
was Health Care Services), and
Cigna Corp
($160.35 billion
of which 73%
was Health Services).
Sales Analysis.
During the second
quarter of 2021, sales at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. totalled
$69.11 billion.
This is
an increase of 21.6%
from the $56.84 billion in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020.
This was the largest same quarter increase in sales since the first
quarter of 2017.
During the first two
quarters of 2021, sales totalled $133.71 billion, which is
13.2% higher
than through the first two quarters of 2020.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported sales of $245.51 billion
for the
year ending
December of 2020.
This
represents
a
decrease of 3.6%
versus 2019, when the company's sales were $254.62 billion.
Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 75.4% decline
in Reconciliation, from $619.00 million to $152.00 million.
There were also decreases in sales in
Manufacturing Businesses (down 5.8% to $59.08 billion)
and
Mclane Company (down 7.2% to $46.84 billion)
and
Service and Retailing (down 4.4% to $28.18 billion)
and
Bnsf (down 11.3% to $20.87 billion)
.
However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of
Insurance Group (up 2.5% to $69.36 billion)
and
Berkshire Hathway Energy Company (up 4.6% to $21.03 billion)
.