What would $1000 invested in Amazon in 1997 be worth today?
If you had invested $1,000 during Amazon's IPO in May 1997, your investment would be worth $1,341,000 as of August 31, according to CNBC calculations.
If you'd had the nerves of steel to invest $1,000 in Amazon in March, 2014 that investment would be worth $9,279 today. That's close to an 830% return, compared to 174% in the S&P 500 over the same period. That is a truly incredible figure. Few companies can claim this sort of compounding over any time frame.
Since going public in 1997, Amazon stock has generated a total percent change of roughly 182,900%, which also incorporates the various stock splits that have happened along the way. That means that if you had invested $4,000 in Amazon in 1997, you would now have roughly $7.32 million.
Those gains translate to a 23.2% compound annual growth rate for Amazon compared to a 6.2% CAGR for the S&P 500 in that time. As a result, $10,000 in AMZN stock purchased 20 years ago would now be worth $645,262.
If you had invested $1,000 in Amazon's initial public offering in 1997, you would have roughly $250,000 currently. In 1986, if you had invested $1,000 in Microsoft, you would have approximately $500,000 today. Such gains from tech IPOs are extremely unlikely for public investors today.
Analysts at Coin Price Forecast do offer a 2034 projection for Amazon stock, estimating a 10-year price increase of 276%, to $672 per share.
29, 2008 be worth today? We did the math. According to our calculations, AMZN stock has increased by 3,578.8% since that day. That means that a $1,000 investment would be worth $36,788 today.
What does that look like on a brokerage statement? Check out the above chart and you'll see that if you invested $1,000 in Apple stock 20 years ago, it would today be worth almost $530,000. The same $1,000 invested in the S&P 500 would have theoretically turned into $6,186 over the same period.
Jake Lerch (Apple): A relatively modest investment of $10,000 in Apple when Steve Jobs returned to the company in February 1997 would have grown to more than $14 million today. AAPL total return level data by YCharts. Most of that astonishing return can be chalked up to the iPhone.
The 20:1 ratio dwarfed all previous ratios in the company's prior stock split history. Amazon's stock has split four times in total. The previous stock split occurred in July 1999, at 2:1. Before that, the stock split in November 1998 at 3:1, and in April 1998 at 2:1.
What would $1 000 invested in Netflix stock 10 years ago be worth now?
So, if you had invested in Netflix ten years ago, you're likely feeling pretty good about your investment today. A $1000 investment made in March 2014 would be worth $9,728.72, or a gain of 872.87%, as of March 4, 2024, according to our calculations. This return excludes dividends but includes price appreciation.
As of March 28, 2024, the price of Tesla's stock was $175.79. Ten years ago, at market close on March 28, 2014, Tesla's stock was trading at $14.16 per share. This means that $10,000 invested in Tesla in March 2014 would be worth about $124,145 today.
The closing price for Apple (AAPL) in 1997 was $0.10, on December 31, 1997. It was down 37.8% for the year. The latest price is $165.84.
Stock splits of Amazon in June 1998 (2:1), January 1999 (3:1), September 1999 (2:1) and June 2022 (20:1) would have turned the 18.55 AMZN shares into 13,334.4 shares today. Based on a price of $129.86 for Amazon shares at the time of writing, the $1,000 investment would be worth $1,731,605.18 today.
If you had invested in Amazon ten years ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today. A $1000 investment made in March 2014 would be worth $9,565.47, or an 856.55% gain, as of March 15, 2024, according to our calculations.
Amazon stock hit $2,000 per share for the first time Thursday.
I like valuing the stock on its operating cash flow because Amazon invests heavily in growing the business, even at its current size. If you compare the share price to the operating cash flow per share, the stock is still cheap relative to its long-term average. Investors can confidently add Amazon to their portfolios.
The table below shows the present value (PV) of $10,000 in 20 years for interest rates from 2% to 30%. As you will see, the future value of $10,000 over 20 years can range from $14,859.47 to $1,900,496.38.
Amazon is a forever stock, and it has many opportunities coming at it from its different businesses. It's still the king of e-commerce that started the whole story, and e-commerce continues to increase as a percentage of total retail sales.
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).
How much did Jeff Bezos initially invest in Amazon?
In 1994, Bezos started with nothing but a plan to capitalize on the burgeoning potential of the Internet. 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.
For example, if an investment scheme promises an 8% annual compounded rate of return, it will take approximately nine years (72 / 8 = 9) to double the invested money.
If you had invested $1,000 in Apple stock on Feb. 4, 1997, today, you would have $1,343,269. Likewise, if you had invested $1,000 in an index fund replicating Nasdaq, you would have $11,038. A similar $1,000 investment in an index fund that replicates the S&P 500 would be worth $6,140.
Factoring in the company's five stock splits, these 454 shares would have increased to 101,696 shares, as of today. With Apple closing last week at $140.09, it means an initial $10,000 investment nearly 42 years ago would now be worth $14,246,593. Keep in mind that this figure doesn't take into account dividends paid.
Those gains translate to a 36.6% compound annual growth rate for Apple compared to a 7.4% CAGR for the S&P 500 in that time. That means that $10,000 in AAPL stock purchased 20 years ago would be worth about $5.08 million today, assuming reinvested dividends.
