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Berkshire Hathaway just surpassed a trillion-dollar market cap. Here's why

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Berkshire Hathaway ( NYSE : BRK.A) just surpassed a trillion-dollar market cap.

It is the eighth non-state-owned company in history to reach this milestone.

Buffett took control of the company in the late 60s by buying 49% of its shares.

Today , the stock trades at a price of $ 696,502 . That is a 46,871 times increase from Buffett 's initial purchase.

Buffett is the indisputable best investor ever.

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now and Berkshire Hathaway wasn’t one of them.

Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005 ... if you invested $ 1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $ 731,449 !.

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