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.
A $1,000 investment could have purchased 7,692.31 shares of AAPL. The $1,000 investment in AAPL shares would be wroth $1,331,385 today, based on a price of $173.08 for AAPL shares at the time of writing. According to CashNetUSA, a $1,000 investment in Apple in December 1980 would be worth $651,000 today.
If you had invested $10,000 in Microsoft at the time, your investment would now be worth more than $9 million. Apple went public in December 1980 with its IPO priced at a pre-split price of $22 per share. A $10,000 invested in Apple back then would now be worth more than $1.6 million.
Those gains translate to a 38.4% compound annual growth rate for Apple compared to a 7.8% CAGR for the S&P 500 in that time. As a result, $10,000 in AAPL stock purchased 20 years ago would be worth about $6.62 million today, assuming reinvested dividends.
What was the offering price at Apple's initial public offering (IPO)? Apple went public on December 12, 1980 at $22.00 per share. The stock has split five times since the IPO, so on a split-adjusted basis the IPO share price was $.
And if you had given your $1,000 investment a decade to grow, you'd have about $6,665 now — up nearly 540%, according to CNBC's calculations, which also factors in the company's various stock splits over the years.
Have a look at the above chart and you'll see that if you invested $1,000 in Apple stock 20 years ago, it would be worth more than $695,000 today.
Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to hit a $1 trillion market cap during intraday trading on Aug. 2, 2018.
Apple first surpassed $2 trillion in market capitalization in August 2020, as consumers flocked to its devices amidst the COVID pandemic. The Cupertino-based company even briefly reached a market capitalization of $3 trillion on Jan. 3, 2022, almost exactly a year ago. Yet Apple shares have fallen sharply since then.
It first reached $1 trillion in value in mid-2018, and it achieved a $2 trillion valuation in August 2020, making it the first US company to surpass that level, though Saudi Aramco was the first $2 trillion company overall.
If you invested $10,000 with founder Elon Musk 10 years ago, your stake would be worth $2.1 million now. That works out to a more than 70% average annual return. The same $10,000 put into the S&P 500 during that time grew just 274% to $37,376. That's just 14% compounded annually.
Accounting for the Tesla stock splits, this debut-day investor would hold 8,820 shares today. In other words, a $10,000 investment in Tesla's IPO in 2010 would now be worth a staggering $2,643,178. For those of you keeping score at home, this equates to a 26,332% increase in value in just over 12 years.
In dollar terms, that $1,000 investment in 1986 would be worth a whopping $3.23 million today.
The Bottom Line. If you'd invested $1,000 in Apple in September 2017, you'd have around $3,900 by September 2022. You could have had even more — nearly $4,600 — if you'd sold at the stock's peak over the past five years, though.
Achieving $500 will probably take longer than 12 months, possibly around five years if Apple maintains its robust median annual return of 24% since the early 1980s. Potential catalysts for reaching $500 include macroeconomic improvements and disruptive innovations like mixed reality or autonomous vehicles.
Apple makes history as first $3 trillion company amid tech stock surge.
Apple closed on Friday with a record $3 trillion market value, making it the most valuable company ever. The technology company closed the trading day at $193.97 per share, up more than two percent from the day before.
Now valued at $3.02 trillion, Apple remains the only $3 trillion company in history, having briefly crossed the threshold in January 2022.
For a long time, Musk seemed to be the consensus choice to become the first person to reach a $1 trillion net worth. After all, his wealth was on a seemingly meteoric rise, and he was at one point valued at over $200 billion.
Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. Apple has purchased Canadian company Mobeewave, which will allow it to create mobile pay hubs out of iPhones, Bloomberg reported. The deal went down for $100 million, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg.
Amazon.com Inc. is the world's first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation, tightening monetary policies and disappointing earnings updates triggered a historic selloff in the stock this year.
The 40 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Apple Inc have a median target of 190.00, with a high estimate of 240.00 and a low estimate of 140.00. The median estimate represents a -3.07% decrease from the last price of 196.02.
Five Year Stock Price Total Return for Apple is calculated as follows: Last Close Price [ 195.83 ] / Adj Prior Close Price [ 45.63 ] (-) 1 (=) Total Return [ 329.2% ] Prior price dividend adjustment factor is 0.96.
In order to hit your goal of $1 million in 10 years, SmartAsset's savings calculator estimates that you would need to save around $7,900 per month. This is if you're just putting your money into a high-yield savings account with an average annual percentage yield (APY) of 1.10%.