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If you put $1,000 into Amazon in 1998, you would have $1.01M today

Worth today

You put in$1,000
It is now worth$1.01M
Profit +$1.01M
Multiple1,014x
Per year27.2% over 28.7 years

The prices behind it

Bought Jan 1998$0.245833
Today$249.38
Units bought4,067.80

Monthly closing prices. The buy is the first monthly close on or after January of that year.

See the Amazon chart · company page

What this does not include. No dividends, no inflation adjustment, no tax, no fees, and no account for the fact that almost nobody holds one thing for 29 years without touching it. It also only works looking backwards. The assets in this list are here because they are the ones people ask about, which means they are survivors, and the ones that went to zero are not on the menu.

The ones people ask about

Prices from Yahoo Finance, monthly closes, refreshed daily. Past performance says nothing about future returns, and nothing here is investment advice.