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Ackman Bets on Howard Hughes to Be the Next Berkshire Hathaway

Bill Ackman is wagering $900 million that Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (HHH) can be transformed into a conglomerate akin to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Ackman believes HHH’s current position is “vastly superior” to Berkshire’s early days. However, challenges remain in building a trillion-dollar empire, including high capital costs and investor skepticism.

key Takeaways

• Pershing Square, led by BILL ACKMAN, has substantially increased its stake in Howard Hughes Holdings, including a $900 million investment in May 2025.
• ACKMAN intends to replicate BUFFETT’s strategy by establishing an insurance business to generate capital for future acquisitions.

Bill Ackman and Howard Hughes Holdings

While Berkshire hathaway began as a struggling textile business in 1962, Howard Hughes Holdings, with a market cap of approximately $4.1 billion as of May 2025, is already a significant real estate developer. ACKMAN aims to follow a similar trajectory, transforming HHH into a diversified conglomerate.

In the first quarter of 2025, HHH reported net income from continuing operations of $0.21 per diluted share, a significant improvement from the previous year, with a quarterly net operating income of $72 million. ACKMAN’s $900 million investment, acquiring 9 million newly issued shares at $100 per share, bolstered the company’s balance sheet and increased Pershing Square’s ownership from 37.6% to 46.9%.

The investment grants ACKMAN 40% of the voting power and reinstates him as executive chair, a role he held from 2010 to 2024.

“It’s not a business that Wall Street has assigned an appropriate value to.We’re a below-investment-grade company today to which equity investors have assigned a high cost of capital,” he told the Financial times.