{"id":142,"date":"2025-05-07T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:43:21","slug":"warren-buffet-retiring-investment-results-in-past-60-years-5502284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffet retiring – investment results in past 60 years: 5,502,284%"},"content":{"rendered":"

So if you put $1,000 with him in 1965 and let it ride you'd now have five and a half billion dollars. In Feb. 2024, Ruth Gottesman, a professor at Albert Einstein Medical School and her husband gave a school $1 billion so students accepted there would be tuition free.  When asked about their generosity they said the husband had been an early investor with Buffet and they still had over $2 billion left.<\/p>\n

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When Warren Buffett relinquishes the CEO title at Berkshire Hathaway , he will leave investors with decades of outsized returns. Buffett shocked the investing world on Saturday with a surprise announcement that he intends to step down from the chief executive post by year-end after six decades. Berkshire\u2019s board approved his decision, with the billionaire continuing his other role as chairman. He will pass the CEO baton to designated successor Greg Abel. <\/a><\/p>\n

To be exact, Berkshire shares have skyrocketed 5,502,284% between when Buffett took over what was then a failing textile company in 1965 and the end of 2024, according to the company\u2019s most recent annual report<\/a>. By comparison, the broad S&P 500 <\/a><\/span><\/span>has risen 39,054% during that period with dividends.<\/p>\n

Berkshire\u2019s monster figure equates to a compounded annual return of 19.9%. That is nearly double the 10.4% recorded by the S&P 500.<\/p>\n

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That outperformance has been driven by some years where Berkshire\u2019s stock left the broader market in the dust. In 1998, for example, Berkshire surged 52.2% while the S&P 500 advanced 28.6%. Berkshire shares soared 129.3% in 1976, far outpacing the S&P 500\u2032s 23.6% gain.<\/p>\n

In other years, Berkshire was able to side-step declines that dragged on the market. As technology stocks led a market meltdown that pulled the S&P 500 down 18.1% in 2022, Berkshire was able to end the year with a 4% increase. In 1981, while the S&P 500 slid 5%, the Nebraska-based conglomerate rallied 31.8%.<\/p>\n

There were some periods when Berkshire lagged. Most recently, as the S&P 500 rebounded 26.3% in 2023, the company\u2019s stock added just 15.8%. Berkshire finished 2020 higher by 2.4%, underperforming the S&P 500 by 16 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Still, Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, noted Berkshire\u2019s ability to outperform the S&P 500 by nearly 2% over the past decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a value-oriented investor to be above the S&P 500 over the last 10 years \u2014 which have been one of, if not the, most difficult decade for value investors in the 100 years \u2014 is absolutely extraordinary,\u201d Siegel told CNBC on Monday morning. \u201cI don\u2019t think any value investor can touch him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buffett is poised to end what should be his final year as CEO on a high note. Class A shares of Berkshire have climbed nearly 19% in 2025 and hit an all-time high ahead of the annual meeting on Friday. The S&P 500 has dropped more than 3% year to date.<\/p>\n

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So if you put $1,000 with him in 1965 and let it ride you'd now have five and a half billion dollars. In Feb. 2024, Ruth Gottesman, a professor at Albert Einstein Medical School and her husband gave a school $1 billion so students accepted there would be tuition free.  When asked about their generosity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6998,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}