Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock firmly holds the title of the world's most expensive publicly traded stock by individual share price, trading at hundreds of thousands of dollars per single share. This extraordinary nominal share price is the result of legendary investor Warren Buffett's lifelong corporate policy against executing stock splits, allowing the equity value to compound massively alongside the multinational conglomerate's extensive business operations, subsidiaries, and equity portfolios. Other companies known for exceptionally high individual share prices due to limited or absent stock splits include Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli AG, British retailer Next plc, and American homebuilder NVR Inc. These high share prices reflect decades of accumulated corporate growth, disciplined capital allocation, and strong long-term business fundamentals rather than the total market value of the companies themselves.