Here's how badly Warren Buffett has crushed the market (BRK-A)

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May 4, 2017 5:32 PM

Since Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway, the S&P 500 has grown in value about 28-fold. Berkshire has grown by about 13,000-fold.

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The Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Shareholders Meeting kicks off on Saturday May 6, and to mark the occasion, we looked at how Warren Buffett has stacked up against the broader stock market since he bought the then-failing namesake textile company in 1964.

a 2001 retrospective Yahoo Finance performance of the S&P 500

We'll have full coverage of the Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Annual Shareholders Meeting on Saturday.

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