Post #9684 by rayvt on the Berkshire Hathaway board

Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) ❤

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5 years isn't long enough to derive any meaningful conclusions.

Here is a site that has P/B back to 2004. https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/BRK.B/value/p...
You said you derived it using SEC filings for more than 5 years, so why didn't you do more than 5?

The time between datapoints is not regular, which would make analyzing it a bit painful. Which is why I haven't done it yet.*

BTW, you don't really need Python to scrape price history from Yahoo financial. Cut/paste works just fine.

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[*] Duh, I just realized it would be easy. In Excel, just have another table of historical prices and do a table look up for each P/B datapoint. **smacks forehead**

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