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Author: RaplhCramden ✧  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: About that Berkshire
Date: 05/26/2024 4:03 PM
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Mungofitch wrote:
Random math to illustrate the concern: imagine that net margins gradually fell from today's roughly 11% back to the old normal of 6.1%, and that squiggly fall took place over 50 years. Let's say real sales rise at inflation + 2.5%/year in that time. In that scenario, real net profits would have risen at only 1.26%/year.

I asked GPT 4o how much revenues had risen for 3 large members of the SP500 annualized over the last 20 years and it obliged with the following table:

Company	Revenue 2004 (billion USD)	Revenue 2024 (billion USD)	Annualized Growth Rate (CAGR)
Amazon		6.92				590.74				24.7%
Apple		8.28				394.33				16.6%
Google		3.19				279.82				23.1%
Won't
Is there some reason to believe that this relatively long-lived trend will sink back to inflation+2.5% sometime soon?

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