Bank of America is owned by its public shareholders, and its three largest are The Vanguard Group, Berkshire Hathaway and BlackRock. The company's 2026 proxy statement, filed March 23, 2026, lists Vanguard at 9.1%, Warren E. Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway at 7.9% and BlackRock at 6.9%, though Berkshire has sold shares since the filing it relied on.
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That last point is the one most ownership pages miss. The proxy's Berkshire number traces to a November 2025 filing, and Berkshire's own later 13F shows a smaller position. Both are covered below with dates.
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Bank of America Corporation is a publicly traded company owned by the investors who hold its common stock, ticker BAC. No parent company or government owns it. Three holders are large enough to be named in the proxy: Vanguard, Berkshire Hathaway and BlackRock, which are the only holders the proxy names above its disclosure threshold.
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The Bank of America 2026 DEF 14A states that each of those three reported beneficial ownership of more than 5% of outstanding common stock as of December 31, 2025. The rest of the company is spread across other institutions and individual investors, none of which crossed the 5% line.
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The same proxy puts the number of common shares outstanding and entitled to vote at 7,145,709,181 as of the March 13, 2026 record date. That share count falls over time as the company repurchases stock, which nudges every holder's percentage up if its share count stays flat.
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The largest shareholders of Bank of America are The Vanguard Group, Berkshire Hathaway and BlackRock, in that order, according to the 2026 proxy. Berkshire's proxy figure comes from an older filing, and its latest Form 13F reports fewer shares.
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The rows are not all from the same date. Vanguard's figure dates from January 2026, Berkshire's proxy figure from November 2025 and BlackRock's from January 2024. The fourth row is Berkshire's own, more recent disclosure.
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Berkshire Hathaway still owns Bank of America shares, but fewer than the proxy shows. Its most recent quarterly Form 13F reports a smaller position than the figure in Bank of America's latest proxy.
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The Berkshire 13F-HR for the June 2026 quarter lists Bank of America across several information-table lines, one per reporting subsidiary, which sum to 483,394,015 shares with a reported value of $27,543,790,975. The earlier count of 568,070,012 shares comes from the Schedule 13G/A filed November 14, 2025, as cited in the Bank of America proxy.
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The gap between the two filings is 84,675,997 shares. A 13F is a quarter-end snapshot, so it does not show exactly when shares were sold within the period, or whether any trading happened after June 30, 2026.
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Berkshire's recent Form 4 filings on EDGAR through September 29, 2026 relate to other issuers and to Berkshire itself, not to Bank of America. Form 4 is required from insiders and the very largest holders, and Berkshire's reported stake sits below that level, so the next firm read on the position will come from its next 13F.
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According to the 2026 Bank of America proxy, Mr. Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had shared voting and investment power over all 568,070,012 shares reported in November 2025. National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire insurance subsidiary, had shared power over 450,665,500 of those shares, which the proxy says represented 6.3% of Bank of America's common stock.
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No. Berkshire Hathaway is a large minority shareholder, not a controlling owner. It files on Schedule 13G, the form used by holders that do not intend to influence control, and its stake is well under a majority. Bank of America's board and management run the company and answer to all shareholders.
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Management leadership is separate from any holder. The 2026 proxy lists Brian T. Moynihan as Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, with 2,803,195 shares of common stock beneficially owned. It also says each director and named executive officer, and the group as a whole, owned less than 1% of outstanding common stock.
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Vanguard and BlackRock are also passive filers. According to the proxy, Vanguard's January 2026 filing reported shared voting power over 65,352,937 shares, a small fraction of its 651,058,822-share position, while BlackRock reported sole voting power over 445,519,442 shares.
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Use SEC EDGAR. Bank of America's annual DEF 14A lists every holder above its disclosure threshold with the filing each figure came from. Each large holder's Schedule 13G amendments show updates, Form 13F shows institutional managers' quarterly positions, and Form 4 covers insiders and the very largest holders.
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Bank of America's filings are listed on EDGAR under CIK 70858, and Berkshire's are under CIK 1067983. A workable order of checks:

Every figure here is tied to a date, and the dates differ. The proxy mixes filings of different ages, and Berkshire's latest count is a quarter-end snapshot published weeks later. None of these sources is real time, and any holder may have traded since.

Yes, as of June 30, 2026. Berkshire's Form 13F filed August 14, 2026 reports 483,394,015 Bank of America shares.
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The Vanguard Group, with 651,058,822 shares or 9.1%, per the March 2026 proxy citing Vanguard's January 30, 2026 Schedule 13G/A.
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No. It is a public company, and no government entity appears among the 5% holders in its 2026 proxy statement.
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7,145,709,181 common shares were outstanding and entitled to vote as of March 13, 2026, according to the 2026 proxy.
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2,803,195 shares of common stock beneficially owned as of March 13, 2026, per the proxy's ownership table.
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All figures were taken from the SEC EDGAR filings listed below. No third-party aggregators or news summaries were used for any number.