A look at Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Returns

This is pretty incredible to think about. Below is a year-by-year listing of Berkshire Hathaway’s year-end closing prices for their Class A stock.



It’s pretty incredible to think that a $20.50 investment at the end of 1967 would have been worth $141,600 at the end of 2007. That’s an average annual rate of return of 24.73% over each of those forty years! Had you purchased just 100 shares (a $2,050 investment + brokerage fees) of Berkshire at the end of 1967, you would have had over $14.1 MILLION at the end of 2007.