- If Berkshire Hathaway stock tanked 99%, Buffett would still have outperformed the S&P 500.
- Berkshire stock soared 3,800,000% between 1965 and 2022, trouncing the S&P 500’s 25,000% gain.
- Buffett’s company surpassed $1 trillion of assets last quarter, and its stock is at record highs.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could suffer a 99% crash in its stock price, and it would still have trounced the S&P 500 over a nearly 60-year period.
“Berkshire can lose 99.4% and still have outperformed the S&P 500 since ‘current management’ bought control in 1965,” Chris Bloomstran said in a recent X post. Bloomstran is the president of Semper Augustus Investments, a longtime Berkshire shareholder that counts the company as its number-one holding.
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