Scale prices in multiple stocks for comparison

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I have a chart with prices of multiple stocks.

The problem is that some prices are below 100 while others are above 1000, so the chart is really ugly.

How do I compare historical in multiple stocks, so the chart is still readable. For instace, if I add Berkshire Hathaway, I won't be able to read anything off my chart because of the large gap between prices of different stocks.

I wonder if that's what the logarithmic scale is for?

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This is precisely the idea behind having one axis using a logarithmic scale. It is always a good idea to use this if the data varies over more than an order of magnitude.