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If you put $1,000 into Microsoft in 2000, you would have $16,963 today

Worth today

You put in$1,000
It is now worth$16,963
Profit +$15,963
Multiple17.0x
Per year11.2% over 26.7 years

The prices behind it

Bought Mar 2000$31.28
Today$530.61
Units bought31.97

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

See the Microsoft 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 27 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.

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