Over the past 20 years through Dec. 30, 2024, Amazon shares have generated a total return of 9,736% compared to a 387% total return for the S&P 500 during that stretch.
Did you know that a $1,000 investment in Amazon's IPO in 1997 would be worth $1.87 million today? That's a staggering return of over 186,900% 🚀 ✨ But it wasn't all smooth sailing. Investors had to endure a 95% drop during the dot-com bust, waiting until 2009 to recover.
Ten Year Stock Price Total Return for Amazon.com is calculated as follows: Last Close Price [ 218.94 ] / Adj Prior Close Price [ 14.74 ] (-) 1 (=) Total Return [ 1,385.6% ] Prior price dividend adjustment factor is 1.00.
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Even starting with a relatively small $1,000 just 10 years ago, you would now have about $10,500. Placing the same amount in the S&P 500 would've resulted in about $3,300.
The Numbers on Apple Stock
Those gains translate to a 32.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for Apple compared to an 8.3% CAGR for the S&P 500 in that time. That means that $10,000 in AAPL stock purchased 20 years ago would be worth more than $2.71 million today, assuming reinvested dividends.
To see what that looks like on a brokerage statement, check out the above chart and you'll see that if you invested $1,000 in NFLX stock 20 years ago, today it would be worth approximately $467,000.
If you had invested $1,000 in Apple stock 20 years ago, today you'd have more than $227,000, at an annualized return of 31.2%. Including dividends reinvested, you'd be sitting on nearly $270,000.
Ten Year Stock Price Total Return for Costco Wholesale is calculated as follows: Last Close Price [ 936.94 ] / Adj Prior Close Price [ 115.47 ] (-) 1 (=) Total Return [ 711.4% ] Prior price dividend adjustment factor is 0.81.
Amazon shies off high after hitting $2,000 per share for the first time. It's a major milestone in the stock's climb to match Apple's $1 trillion market valuation.
If you had invested $1,000 in Apple stock on Jan. 24, 1984, today, you would have $1,593,809. Likewise, if you had invested $1,000 in an index fund replicating Nasdaq, you would have $55,090. A similar $1,000 investment in an index fund that replicates the S&P 500 would be worth $29,230.
Analysts See 13% Upside For Amazon Stock
The 30-year-old Amazon is among the world's most valuable companies. It is a leader in e-commerce spending and in cloud computing through its Amazon Web Services business. It is also quickly growing its advertising business into a challenger to Google (GOOGL) and Meta (META).
He invested $10,000 from his personal savings to incorporate a company called Cadabra, Inc. Eventually, he changed the name to Amazon after one of his attorneys misheard the name as Cadaver. Then came his most risky investment. His parents invested $250,000, a significant portion of their savings.
Founder and longtime CEO Jeff Bezos instilled a "Day One" philosophy in the company and insisted that it would invest for the long term. Amazon has never paid a dividend, and the company rarely buys back its stock. In fact, its share count has grown consistently over its history due to share-based compensation.
Amazon went public on May 15, 1997, and the IPO price was $18.00, or $0.075 adjusted for the stocks splits that occurred on June 2, 1998 (2-for-1 split), January 5, 1999 (3-for-1 split), and September 1, 1999 (2-for-1 split), and June 3, 2022 (20-for-1 split).
Ten Year Stock Price Total Return for Home Depot is calculated as follows: Last Close Price [ 389.89 ] / Adj Prior Close Price [ 82.68 ] (-) 1 (=) Total Return [ 371.6% ] Prior price dividend adjustment factor is 0.79.
There's a chance that Costco will split its stock before it gets to $1,000. So while the value will theoretically be there, in actual price per share, it wouldn't. On a split-adjusted basis, one Costco share was worth $1.67 at the initial public offering price.
Currently, Microsoft has a market capitalization of $3.11 trillion. Buying $1000 In MSFT: If an investor had bought $1000 of MSFT stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $15,345.81 today based on a price of $417.96 for MSFT at the time of writing.
Summing up $93,682 and $7,748, we end up with the final value of your investment, which is $101,430. This is how much you could have made if you had invested $10,000 in Apple stock 10 years ago. This means a total return of 914.3%. In comparison, S&P 500 total return for the same period is 257.58%.
But if you were smart enough to invest $1,000 in Apple stock at the start of the year 2000, you'd be sitting on a monster gain of 21,230%. This means that modest investment would be worth a whopping $213,000 today (as of July 27).
Had you invested $1,000 in Microsoft at its IPO, you would have acquired 47 shares at $21 per share. Adjusting for the stock splits, you'd actually have 13,536 shares today with a cost basis of $0.0729 per share. Given Microsoft now trades at $238.73 per share, that translates to a return of 327,401%.
The company boasts a market cap of over $373.435 billion, per Nasdaq. If you had believed in the company and taken a stake of $1,000 in NFLX only 10 years ago, today you would have a holding worth over $18,600. This would have given you money you really need to safely retire at age 50.