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Berkshire Hathaway$BRK-B · filed: grew revenue 0.0% in FY2025 to $371.4BNew shipNext year $335.0B–$412.4B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Berkshire Hathaway filed
Grew revenue 0.0% in FY2025 to $371.4 billion, equity 58.7% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Berkshire Hathaway’s card. New ship: no warning signs.
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $335.0B and $412.4B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #0d3dcd · graded in public by the revenue in Berkshire Hathaway’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Berkshire's **$10B** Alphabet bet coincides with an **$80B** raise, linking Buffett's capital to the largest AI infrastructure financing outside sovereign funds.
$10 billion
to Alphabet in the first quarter
$80 billion
through debt and equity offerings earmarked for artificial intelligence…
$15 billion
in market value
$75 billion to $85 billion
for 2025
Berkshire Hathaway committed an additional $10 billion to Alphabet in the first quarter, according to regulatory filings disclosed this week, while Alphabet simultaneously announced plans to raise $80 billion through debt and equity offerings earmarked for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The timing links Omaha capital to Mountain View ambition at a scale neither firm has previously attempted in tandem.
Berkshire's stake now exceeds $15 billion in market value, placing Alphabet among the conglomerate's five largest public equity positions. The investment arrives as Alphabet outlined capital expenditure guidance of $75 billion to $85 billion for 2025, a 40 percent increase over 2024 levels, with the majority allocated to data center construction, tensor processing unit procurement, and energy infrastructure to support its Gemini model family. The $80 billion raise—structured as $50 billion in investment-grade bonds and $30 billion in a registered equity shelf—gives Alphabet the dry powder to move without quarterly Board approvals as hyperscaler land grabs intensify.
The commitment matters because Berkshire rarely doubles down mid-cycle. The firm's historical pattern involves building positions over years, not quarters, and the velocity here suggests conviction that Alphabet's infrastructure spend will produce durable returns ahead of Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in the model-serving layer. Berkshire's $10 billion moves the needle on Alphabet's cost of capital: institutional followers typically interpret Buffett's late-stage additions as validation that current multiples underprice earnings five years forward. Alphabet trades at 18 times forward earnings despite gross margins above 55 percent on its Search and Cloud divisions, a discount to Microsoft's 28 times multiple on comparable profitability.
Operators should note that Alphabet's raise is the largest single AI-focused capital event outside of sovereign wealth commitments, signaling that the infrastructure phase remains early. The debt portion carries maturities between five and thirty years, locking in rates while the ten-year Treasury hovers near 4.3 percent, a financing window that assumes model training costs decline while inference costs remain high enough to justify fixed-rate leverage. The equity shelf structure allows Alphabet to tap retail and institutional demand without a dilutive overnight offering, preserving optionality if chip supply constraints ease faster than anticipated.
Watch for Alphabet's data center leasing announcements in Virginia and Texas over the next 90 days, where utility partnerships will clarify whether the firm can secure dedicated power at rates below $40 per megawatt-hour. Berkshire's energy subsidiaries, including MidAmerican, already supply 8 percent of U.S. grid capacity, and the overlap between Alphabet's energy needs and Berkshire's generation footprint is not a coincidence. If joint power purchase agreements surface, the $10 billion investment begins to look like the anchor tenant in a vertically integrated AI stack, not merely a public equity bet.
The $80 billion raise is the fact. The $10 billion from Omaha is the opinion.
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Track Alphabet's next twelve months of capex against Azure and AWS spending; margin compression timing determines multiple expansion.
For the house
Exploring energy infrastructure exposure through MidAmerican alongside select hyperscaler positions; PPA structures under review for named accounts.
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