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Buffett Shareholder Letters - 2004 Letter

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Note: The following table appears in the printed Annual Report on the facing page of the Chairman's Letter and is referred to in that letter. Berkshire s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500 Year 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. Average Annual Gain 1965-2004 Overall Gain 1964-2004 Annual Percentage Change in Per-Share in S&P 500 Book Value of with Dividends Berkshire Included (1) (2) 23.8 10.0 20.3 (11.7) 11.0 30.9 19.0 11.0 16.2 (8.4) 12.0 3.9 16.4 14.6 21.7 18.9 4.7 (14.8) 5.5 (26.4) 21.9 37.2 59.3 23.6 31.9 (7.4) 24.0 6.4 35.7 18.2 19.3 32.3 31.4 (5.0) 40.0 21.4 32.3 22.4 13.6 6.1 48.2 31.6 26.1 18.6 19.5 5.1 20.1 16.6 44.4 31.7 7.4 (3.1) 39.6 30.5 20.3 7.6 14.3 10.1 13.9 1.3 43.1 37.6 31.8 23.0 34.1 33.4 48.3 28.6 .5 21.0 6.5 (9.1) (6.2) (11.9) 10.0 (22.1) 21.0 28.7 10.5 10.9 21.9 286,865 10.4 5,318 Relative Results (1)-(2) 13.8 32.0 (19.9) 8.0 24.6 8.1 1.8 2.8 19.5 31.9 (15.3) 35.7 39.3 17.6 17.5 (13.0) 36.4 18.6 9.9 7.5 16.6 7.5 14.4 3.5 12.7 10.5 9.1 12.7 4.2 12.6 5.5 8.8 .7 19.7 (20.5) 15.6 5.7 32.1 (7.7) (.4) 11.5 Notes: Data are for calendar years with these exceptions: 1965 and 1966, year ended 9/30; 1967, 15 months ended 12/31. Starting in 1979, accounting rules required insurance companies to value the equity securities they hold at market rather than at the lower of cost or market, which was previously the requirement. In this table, Berkshire s results through 1978 have been restated to conform to the changed rules. In all other respects, the results are calculated using the numbers originally reported. The S&P 500 numbers are pre-tax whereas the Berkshire numbers are after-tax. If a corporation such as Berkshire were simply to have owned the S&P 500 and accrued the appropriate taxes, its results would have lagged the S&P 500 in years when that index showed a positive return, but would have exceeded the S&P in years when the index showed a negative return. Over the years, the tax costs would have caused the aggregate lag to be substantial. 2

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