Post #15865 by mungofitch on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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Be sure to use the total returns which include dividends reinvested, not price-only.
Also graph using Logarithmic scale, not linear...

Good advice. Everything should be inflation adjusted, too.

But even a graph that is crude and breaks the rules can express a useful amount of information. Though inflation adjusted, this one isn't semilog and it's not adjusted for dividends, so it's purely a "value of the index" discussion. Still, it speaks to me.
http://www.stonewellfunds.com/BRKandIndexValueGrow...

This one is along the same line, but messier. The intended observation is that the warm colours have done a lot better than the cool colours. It's inflation adjusted and a lot graph, but doesn't concern itself with S&P dividends, so again it's just a "value of the index" thing.
http://www.stonewellfunds.com/BerkshireAndSpyValue...

Jim

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