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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch 🐝🐝🐝 GOLD
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Number: of 21938 
Subject: Re: 5 year challenge - update
Date: 12/18/22 12:46 AM
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No. of Recommendations: 9
44% (32 Votes) 1 BRK-A
22% (16 Votes) 930 SPY (with dividends)
18% (13 Votes) 18.8 Bitcoins
9% (7 Votes) 940 SNOW
5% (4 Votes) 590 TSLA

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BRK-A +33.7%
SPY +8.4%
Bitcoin -7.5%
TSLA -21.8%
SNOW -60.1%


So far, this seems to say something about the voters on that old poll: they weren't so dumb.
Note the near one-for-one correspondence between the order of choice popularity and the order of returns so far.

Best fit:
Return to date = (original fraction of votes) * 2.1 - 51%

If anything, the biggest error so far was giving T&T a bit too much credit for SNOW's prospects.
It was an unpopular choice, but not quite unpopular enough.

Of course, the fat lady has not yet sung.
Time will tell.

Jim
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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Second quarter comments · 60 recs · 2023
Berkshire's Profit Contributors · 57 recs · 2023
Summary of 2Q 2026 · 54 recs · 2026
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