The cash that companies hold is important for paying employees, funding operations, and as a measure of financial health.
This chart,via Visual Capitalist's Boyan Girginov,shows the 50 companies with the largest cash holdings, using data fromTradingViewto highlight who is sitting on the largest war chests.
This metric captures a company’s most liquid assets:cash plus short-term securities like T-bills that typically mature within a year.
Berkshire Hathaway leads the rankings with an impressive $382 billion.
The data table below shows the top 50 companies worldwide with the largest cash and short-term securities holdings:
Source: TradingView | Cash and Short-Term Investments | as of Feb 11, 2026
Following Berkshire are CITIC—a Chinese state-backed financial conglomerate—and Daiwa Securities Group, one of Japan’s biggest financial brokerages.
Big Tech rounds out the top five, with Alphabet holding $127 billion and Amazon holding $126 billion.
Among the top 50 companies, theFinancials sectorcollectively holds the largest cash reserves at $1.2 trillion—partially driven by strict capital rules requiring banks to maintain large liquid buffers.
Berkshire Hathawayis different: its cash position is strategic, not regulatory.
Source: ZeroHedge News
