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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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Subject: Re: Berkshire's strange market behavior...
Date: 01/11/25 11:22 AM
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Offhand, one might reasonably expect owning one share of Berkshire to get you at least around $2k/month of price gains in the next three years.
(assumes typical/conservative trend of value growth, and selling at a typical/conservative multiple of value)
Multiply your number of shares times that number and see if it's enough.
If so, there's not much reason to work harder.
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Any idea what this number looks like today? At the same $2k/month I'm meeting my current needs but not saving much for future ValueOrGoHome.


Two answers.

If starting on a typical valuation day around now, it's pretty easy.
In the last ~20 years the average P/B has been about 1.4. Book has risen about inflation + 8%/year. Let's figure about inflation + 7% for the future.
Book is currently $437580. 1.4 times that is a "normal" price for now of about $612600.
If book rises inflation + 7% in the next year, and the price is 1.4 times that, the price will be about $655500 in a year, a rise of inflation + $42883, or inflation + $3570/month.
(note that's after inflation, not the $2k nominal from that old post)

However, unfortunately for near term prospects for price rises, today's market price is not $612600, it's $663000.
So: three years of book growth at inflation + 7%/year would put book at $536000.
1.4 times that would give a rough expected market price of about $750500 in today's money. That's a forward three year price rise of inflation + $2430 per month.
That same set of figures equates to three years of inflation + 4.22%/year CAGR from today's price.

Since people like to compare them, 5 year TIPS yields are inflation + 2.06% at the moment. 10-year at 2.32%. My wild speculation is that those will do materially better than the S&P 500 for many time frames ending in the next 10 years.

Jim
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