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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

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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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