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Shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (Class A) have finished the year with a gain of 21.4 percent for 2010, far outperforming the benchmark S&P’s 12.8 percent gain, excluding dividends.

The win reverses Buffett’s defeat in 2009, when the S&P’s 23.5 percent advance clobbered Berkshire’s 2.7 percent gain.

Berkshire has beaten the S&P in four of the past five years, and six of the past ten years.

 

Berkshire Hathaway Stock vs. S&P 500 Index
Annual Gains
YearBRK.A CloseBRK Pct. ChangeS&P CloseS&P Pct. Change
2010120,450+21.4%1257.64+12.8%
200999,200+2.7%1115.10+23.5%
200896,600-31.8%903.25-38.5%
2007141,600+28.7%1468.36+3.5%
2006109,990+24.1%1418.30+13.6%
200588,620+0.8%1248.29+3.0%
200487,900+4.3%1211.92+9.0%
200384,250+15.8%1111.92+26.4%
200272,750-3.8%879.82-23.4%
200175,600+6.5%1148.08-13.0%
200071,000+26.6%1320.28-10.1%
199956,100-19.9%1469.25+19.5%
199870,000+52.2%1229.23+26.7%
199746,000+34.9%970.43+31.0%
199634,100+6.2%740.74+20.3%
199532,100+57.4%615.93+34.1%
199420,400+25.0%459.27-1.5%
199316,325+38.9%466.45+7.1%
199211,750+29.8%435.71+4.5%
19919,050+35.6%417.09+26.3%
19906,675-23.1%330.22-5.8%
19898,675+84.6%350.67+26.3%
19884,700+59.3%277.72+12.4%
19872,950+4.6%247.08+2.0%
19862,820+14.2%242.17+14.6%
19852,470+93.7%211.28+26.3%
19841,275-2.7%167.24+1.4%
19831,310+69.0%164.93+17.3%
1982775+38.4%140.64+14.8%
1981560+31.8%122.55-9.7%
1980425+32.8%135.76+25.8%
1979320+110.5%107.94+12.3%
1978152+10.1%96.11+1.1%
1977138+55.1%95.10-11.5%
Average+27.5%+8.9%

Source: CNBC

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