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At the end of 2017, Berkshire Hathaway's Class A shares, the ones that have existed since 1964,
traded for approximately $297,600 per share.
The stock has produced an overall gain of 2,404,748% in the 1964-2017 time period.
This implies that Berkshire Hathaway's stock price was just $12.37
at the time Buffett took over the company.
And it also means that a $10,000 investment would have bought 808 shares of the company,
which would be worth more than $240 million as of the end of 2017.
-Berkshire's 2017 annual report
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