Which company’s Class A shares use the ticker BRK.A and rank among the world’s highest-priced stocks?

Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A shares use the ticker BRK.A and rank among the world’s highest-priced stocks.

Berkshire Hathaway is a diversified holding company led for decades by investor Warren Buffett. Its Class A shares trade under BRK.A, while its more accessible Class B shares trade under BRK.B. The two classes represent ownership in the same corporation but have different voting rights and prices.

The company owns or invests in businesses across insurance, railroads, utilities, manufacturing, retail, and financial assets. Berkshire’s insurance operations, including GEICO and reinsurance businesses, have historically supplied capital that the company can invest elsewhere.

Berkshire’s share price is unusually high partly because it has never carried out a conventional stock split of its Class A shares. A Class B share was created in 1996 to provide a lower-priced alternative, and Berkshire later performed a 50-for-one split of the Class B shares in 2010.