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If you had invested $100...

Pick a company and a year. See what your money would be worth today. Then see how it did against the whole market.

$100 in Apple at the start of 2010 would be worth

$5,468

today, with dividends reinvested. From the share price alone: $4,579.

  • That is 55x your money.
  • It works out to 26.8% a year on average.
  • The same $100 in the S&P 500 would be $911. So Apple did $4,557 better.

To have $1 million today, you would have needed $18,289 in Apple back then.

$100$1,000December 2009October 2026
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Past returns do not predict future ones. Prices from Yahoo Finance, monthly closes. Ignores taxes and fees. Not financial advice. SPY is an index fund that tracks the S&P 500.

$100 in famous companies: who won?

The same $100 at the start of each year, in names everyone knows. The grey row is the S&P 500, the line to beat.

  1. 1NVIDIA$47,907
  2. 2Netflix$7,888
  3. 3Apple$5,468
  4. 4Amazon.com$3,573
  5. 5Microsoft$2,306
  6. 6Alphabet$1,821
  7. 7JPMorgan Chase$1,239
  8. 8Walmart$973
  9. 9S&P 500 (SPY)$911
  10. 10McDonald's$652
  11. 11Coca-Cola$550
  12. 12Intel$498
  13. 13Walt Disney$407
  14. 14Boeing$407
  15. 15Ford Motor$246
  16. MetaNot trading yet (listed 2012)
  17. TeslaNot trading yet (listed 2010)

$100 at the start of 2010, worth today with dividends reinvested. Bars use a log scale so every company fits. Examples, not recommendations.

Company by company

Every start year since 1995 in one table, for the most searched names:

Good to know

How does the calculator work?

It takes the share price at the start of the year you pick and the price today. Dividends are reinvested, so the result is what a buyer who simply held would have. It uses monthly closing prices from Yahoo Finance.

Does it include dividends?

Yes. The big number assumes every dividend bought more shares. The line under it shows the share price alone, without dividends.

Does it include taxes and fees?

No. Real results would be a little lower after trading fees and taxes on dividends and gains.

Can past returns tell me what to buy now?

No. The companies that did best in the past are famous partly because they did best. Many others from the same years shrank or disappeared. Use this to learn how growth compounds, not to pick stocks.

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