Microsoft celebrates their 40th anniversary, but only went public in 1986. Oracle interestingly had their IPO one day previous. CNBC looks back at what they've done since. Let me take a look too.
Checking Yahoo, MSFT first day of trading was on 3/13/86 (a mere 29 years ago). It opened at 25.50 which was the low of the day, hit a high of 29.25, and closed at 28.00. [Bloomberg says it closed at 27.75.]
So say you bought 100 shares of MSFT at the closing price that day. So you paid $2800. The split adjusted price of MSFT on that day is 7 cents. Which means the stock increased 28/.07 or 400 times. So your $2800 would now be worth $1.12 million!
How about Oracle? Interestingly, Yahoo has their first day of trading on that same day of 3/13/86. It opened at 21.00 which was the low for the day, hit a high of 21.25, and closed at 21.00. (So it really didn't do much that day.)
So say you bought 100 shares that day, paying $2100. Yahoo has the adjusted close at 6 cents. So the stock has increased 2100/.06 = 350 times. So your $2100 would be now worth $735,000.
Those figures might not be exactly right since CNBC said MSFT gained 33% on the first day and ORCL gained 37%. And they said that ORCL has outperformed MSFT, gaining 92600% vs. 64000%. That's quite a bit off my calculations. But why quibble with your (near) million bucks?
Oddly, looking at Google, they have ORCL's price at 5.14 on that 3/12/86. And Google has MSFT's price at .10 on 3/13/86. I dunno, but I trust Yahoo more in this case.
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Then again, if you had sold on 12/1/99...
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