Should You Buy Berkshire Hathaway or Vanguard Financials Index ETF?

  • On the surface, comparing a company to an exchange-traded fund (ETF) is obviously not an apples-to-apples comparison. But the lines get blurred a little bit when the company in question is Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 1.32%) (BRK.B 0.77%), which is usually classified as a financial stock and is more of a conglomerate than it is a single company.