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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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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: Dagdom   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: About that Berkshire
Date: 05/24/24 6:58 PM
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in the long run profits, therefore value, can't rise faster than sales do.


Of course they can. Bring down the costs. COGS for a heavy non-recurring cost company like Meta and maybe even NVidia and in general all tech companies don't follow this logic at all.


No, it's a mathematical impossibility.
If profits rose faster than sales over the long run, then soon enough profits would exceed revenues, which obviously can never happen.

You are confusing two things. It’s of course true that margins are range bound, that is obvious. But that doesn’t mean that profits can’t rise faster than sales over the long run. They can, they are just bound by their range.

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