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I'm starting this thread so we can have a quick place to find BRK's peak book value, which has been put forth as a better indicator of BRK's value than current book value by mungofitch.
Current Peak Book Value, using numbers reported on these boards by longtimebrk in this thread:
longtimebrk writes on 20 Years of BV and Market PriceQuarter 1, fiscal year 2022:
$345,469 for A shares.
$230.31 for B shares, dividing by the above A share figure by 1,500.
Later in that thread Aguila gives directions how to compute the quarterly book value precisely:
As found in the Quarter 1 2022 10-Q:
BRK shareholders' equity: $508,141 million
equivalent Class A common stock basis: 1,470,875 shares
Book value: 508,141/1.470875 = $345,469
Also of interest, PickTrader posted his analysis of trend adjusted book value in the following thread, proposing it as a potentially better marker of value than Peak Book.
PickTrader writes on Price to Book has been a quick, sim... 