If You'd Put $1,000 Into Berkshire Hathaway Stock 20 Years Ago, Here's What You'd Have Today

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is in a class by itself when it comes to really long-term outperformance. It's not for nothing that Warren Buffett, who will retire as CEO at the end of 2025, is known as the greatest long-term investor of all time.

BRK.B stock has been a market beater over the past 20 years, too, but all the millionaires Berkshire minted had skin in the game long before the turn of the century.