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Warren Buffett Net Worth (2026)
Warren Buffett is Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
WHAT WE KNOW · FROM FILINGS
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— BRK.B shares × $493.12.
WHAT WE ESTIMATE
varies
Past cash compensation, sold shares, real estate, and other public holdings — estimable from records, but not exact.
WHAT CAN’T BE KNOWN
private
Private company stakes, trusts, cash, debts, and undisclosed assets. Anyone publishing these as a single number is guessing.
At a glance
| Company | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) |
| Title | Chairman & CEO |
| Verified stake | — |
| Shares owned | — |
| Latest total pay | $405,111 breakdown → |
| Age | ~96 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares Warren Buffett reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930, the son of a stockbroker who later served in Congress. He was a relentless boy entrepreneur, delivering newspapers, selling gum and Coca-Cola door to door, and buying his first stock at 11. He studied at Wharton and the University of Nebraska, then went to Columbia to learn from Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing.
After a stint as an analyst at Graham’s firm, Buffett started his own investment partnership in Omaha in 1956. He began buying a failing textile maker called Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, took control in 1965, and spent the next half century turning it into a sprawling holding company built on insurance, railroads, energy, and large stakes in public companies.
Buffett is an owner-operator, not a hired manager. His wealth is one of the great fortunes in history, and almost all of it sits in Berkshire stock he has pledged to give away, which is the equity this page measures.
Born 1930 · University of Nebraska (BS); Columbia Business School (MS)
CAREER
1970-presentChairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
1956-1969General Partner, Buffett Partnership
NOTABLE
- Co-founded the Giving Pledge in 2010 and has committed to give away more than 99 percent of his fortune.
- Remains Berkshire largest individual shareholder even after handing the chief-executive role to Greg Abel at the start of 2026.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $405,111 |
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*Estimated net worth is a third-party figure from Forbes (2026), not our own calculation; it is an estimate that changes with the market. The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Photo: Mark Hirschey, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
