The real joy is if you bought 100 shares of Microsoft then, and switched teams to Apple around 1999 or 2000.
If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
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Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#12Hasn't Microsoft stock paid out a decent amount in dividends since 1999?
Yes, in particular a massive dividend in Nov 2004 of $3.08 / share. That was after every stock split, so that adds another $87,552.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#13I really, really hate this kind of thinking: "I should have bought stock X 10 years ago..." There are companies out there right now whose stock will balloon like this in the next 25 years. Go buy those stocks today. Oh wait...it's not that easy to see into the future. It's much easier to use our 20/20 hindsight and dream about what might have been.
If only you had bought a lottery ticket with today's winning numbers yesterday! You would be a multi-millionaire.
I completely agree, its a silly thing to dwell on what you didn't do but if you had you would really have benefited from it.