Historical Performance
When we compare the long-term performance of Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B) stock with the performance of the S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), we can see Berkshire has strongly outperformed the market index since 2000. During 2016, Berkshire repeated this outperformance by appreciating 24% versus 10% appreciation in the S&P 500 index.
We are now in the middle of 2017 and this year the outperformance of Berkshire is somewhat slowing down. The S&P 500 (9.86% increase YTD) is even outperforming Berkshire (2.68% YTD).
