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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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Subject: Re: BRK, the VL is out, if you can read it.
Date: 06/01/25 9:44 AM
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in the last 10 years...ARKK beat Berkshire...

Actually, no.
BRK ten year CAGR 13.42%
ARKK ten year CAGR 11.20%

Which is really surprising, since what's basically a momentum strategy should have done pretty well in what was mostly one long bull market for tech.

And for further comparison, to see if the manager earned her fees,
SPY ten year CAGR 12.74%
QQQE ten year CAGR 12.02%

As always, a single start point and single end point doesn't say that much. For once, a chart tells you more: ARKK did amazingly for 12 months from the pandemic low, then scarily gave all that back in the next 12 months, and had nice boring returns the other 8 years, though below market overall.

If there is a lesson, it's that overhyped growth stocks are *on average* poor picks. That they were poor picks for her in the last ten years, a golden age for them, is surprising.

Jim
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
BRK: Why Not XOM? · 62 recs · 2024
Second quarter comments · 60 recs · 2023
Berkshire's Profit Contributors · 57 recs · 2023
Summary of 2Q 2026 · 54 recs · 2026
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