If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
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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...
#2$21 was the actual IPO price, not adjusted for the 9 splits.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#3$21 was the actual IPO price, not adjusted for the 9 splits.
Which is why they clearly state:
If you had the good fortune to have bought 100 shares at the $21 offering price that day and sat on the investment for 25 years, it would have mushroomed into 28,800 shares over the course of nine stock splits and be worth about three quarters of a million dollars today.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#4"Gates earned a mere $1.6 million for shares he sold that day, but his remaining 45% stake in the company was worth $350 million, instantly making him one of the nation's 100 wealthiest individuals."
I'm surprised. I thought that, even in 85-86, you needed like a billion to crack that list.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#5Anyone remember a really old free game that came on floppies (5.25")? I think it was from BusinessWeek and came out around 1989. You ran Microsoft for 5 years and tried to maximize your profits (or share value).
I remember that the best I could do was cut all their product (Word, Excel, Windows, DOS, ?) prices to the bare minimum ($8-20) for a year or two, lock up market share, then jack the prices the $500-1000 range. I thought it was pretty unrealistic at the time.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#6Oracle would have gone from $1500 to $259,200. About 23% annual gains. Microsoft was 26.5% annually.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#7"Gates earned a mere $1.6 million for shares he sold that day, but his remaining 45% stake in the company was worth $350 million, instantly making him one of the nation's 100 wealthiest individuals." I'm surprised. I thought that, even in 85-86, you needed like a billion to crack that list.
It turns out you only needed $150 million to make the Forbest 400 in 1985 (the equivalent of around $310 million today): http://tinyurl.com/4sjgdbh
These days it takes a billion: http://tinyurl.com/4ggvbak
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#8I 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.
Re: If you'd bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago...
#9Hasn't Microsoft stock paid out a decent amount in dividends since 1999?
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