{"id":1015,"date":"2026-02-22T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:27:54","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-hoards-more-cash-than-any-company-in-the-world-and-yet-fails-to-pay-dividends-to-stockholders-for-60-years-earning-warren-buffett-the-2025-cheapskate-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/berkshire-hathaway-hoards-more-cash-than-any-company-in-the-world-and-yet-fails-to-pay-dividends-to-stockholders-for-60-years-earning-warren-buffett-the-2025-cheapskate-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOARDS MORE CASH THAN ANY COMPANY IN THE WORLD, AND YET FAILS TO PAY DIVIDENDS TO STOCKHOLDERS FOR 60 YEARS, EARNING WARREN BUFFETT THE 2025 CHEAPSKATE OF THE YEAR AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If \u2018Cash Is King\u2019, Berkshire Hathaway Leads the World<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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The cash that companies hold is important for paying employees, funding operations, and as a measure of financial health.<\/p>\n

This chart,\u00a0via Visual Capitalist\u2019s Boyan Girginov,\u00a0<\/a>shows the 50 companies with the largest cash holdings, using data from\u00a0TradingView<\/a>\u00a0to highlight who is sitting on the largest war chests.<\/p>\n

This metric captures a company\u2019s most liquid assets:\u00a0<\/strong>cash plus short-term securities like T-bills that typically mature within a year.<\/p>\n

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Which Companies Hold the Most Cash?<\/h2>\n

Berkshire Hathaway leads the rankings with an impressive $382 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN ADDITION IT OWNS STOCK IN PUBLICLY TRADING COMPANIES AND HAVING NOT PAID A DIVIDEND IN 60 YEARS, IT MAY BE SUBJECT TO BE ASSESSED THE DREADED ACCUMULATED EARNINGS TAX BY THE IRS THAT COULD TOP $100 BILLION.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The data table below shows the top 50 companies worldwide with the largest cash and short-term securities holdings:<\/p>\n

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Source: TradingView | Cash and Short-Term Investments | as of Feb 11, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Following Berkshire are CITIC\u2014a Chinese state-backed financial conglomerate\u2014and Daiwa Securities Group, one of Japan\u2019s biggest financial brokerages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Big Tech rounds out the top five, with Alphabet holding $127 billion and Amazon holding $126 billion.<\/p>\n

Why Buffett Holds So Much Cash<\/h2>\n

Among the top 50 companies, the\u00a0Financials sector<\/a>\u00a0collectively holds the largest cash reserves at $1.2 trillion\u2014partially driven by strict capital rules requiring banks to maintain large liquid buffers.<\/p>\n

Berkshire Hathaway<\/a>\u00a0is different: its cash position is strategic, not regulatory.<\/p>\n

After 12 straight quarters as a net seller of stocks, Buffett and the team have parked much of the company\u2019s liquidity in short-term U.S. Treasury bills, implying that equity valuations look expensive.<\/p>\n

The Oracle\u2019s cash and cash equivalents as a percentage of total assets is at an all-time high\u2014roughly 31% of total assets.<\/p>\n

Historically, this has coincided with periods when he waits for a major economic or market dislocation before deploying capital as prices begin to mean-revert\u2014quietly accumulating dry powder in the meantime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why Big Tech Holds So Much Cash<\/h2>\n

The Magnificent Seven: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Tesla collectively hold $597 billion\u2014enough to buy most S&P 500 companies.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, Big Tech companies are massive cash machines: high gross margins and scalable cost structures mean incremental revenue converts into cash quickly.<\/p>\n

Despite spending heavily to build AI factories, they\u2019ve used little of their cash reserves to finance them\u2014opting instead for\u00a0debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They hold large cash stockpiles both to fund acquisitions and guard against potential economic turmoil, such as threats from tariffs or geopolitical conflicts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If \u2018Cash Is King\u2019, Berkshire Hathaway Leads the World The cash that companies hold is important for paying employees, funding operations, and as a measure of financial health. This chart,\u00a0via Visual Capitalist\u2019s Boyan Girginov,\u00a0shows the 50 companies with the largest cash holdings, using data from\u00a0TradingView\u00a0to highlight who is sitting on the largest war chests. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}