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Is there any stock or asset that would beat the S&P500 on an absolute basis for all time periods? No. Therefore you can play this game with every single asset class, without exception. It doesn't mean anything, and that is why your comment is misleading. Just looking at a selected time-range and finding underperformance doesn't tell you anything at all about the historic performance of an asset.

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Over the last 5 years Berkshire has underperformed the S&P 500 Growth

http://amigobulls.com/articles/has-berkshire-hathaway-lost-i...

Certainly the last 5 years tells more of a trend than historic performance. My facts are correct and Berkshire has been on the decline for a while, my opinion its certainly not worthy of being downvoted

Why cherry-pick 5 years? Just look at their performance since inception. It is clearly laid out in their 13F. The company has trounced the S&P over such a long-term it is pretty incredible actually.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2015ar/2015ar.pdf

1964-2015, the S&P500 returned 11,355% and BRK returned 1,598,284%.

p.s. not downvoting you, just disagreeing.

It's not cherry picking the last 5 years its looking at the trend, rather than historical returns of a company to see the direction it is heading.

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