Amazon Stock Price In 1997 | StatMuse Money (2024)

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If I really wanted to impress you with big numbers, I'd point out that a $1,000 Amazon stake on the date of its initial public offering (IPO) in 1997 would have grown to $1.6 million by now.

Amazon went public on May 15, 1997, and the IPO price was $18.00, or $0.075 adjusted for the stocks splits that occurred on June 2, 1998 (2-for-1 split), January 5, 1999 (3-for-1 split), and September 1, 1999 (2-for-1 split), and June 3, 2022 (20-for-1 split).

As a result, an investment of $10,000 a decade ago would be worth over $107,000 today. The company made many millionaires over the last decade, begging the question: Does it still have much to offer new investors? Let's examine Amazon's business more closely and determine whether it's still worth investing in in 2024.

Amazon stock hit $2,000 per share for the first time Thursday. Shares rose as much as 1.4 percent to $2,025.57 but ultimately shied away from the record high to close at $2,002.38.

Jake Lerch (Apple): A relatively modest investment of $10,000 in Apple when Steve Jobs returned to the company in February 1997 would have grown to more than $14 million today. AAPL total return level data by YCharts. Most of that astonishing return can be chalked up to the iPhone.

What does that look like on a brokerage statement? Check out the above chart and you'll see that if you invested $1,000 in Apple stock 20 years ago, it would today be worth almost $530,000. The same $1,000 invested in the S&P 500 would have theoretically turned into $6,186 over the same period.

Amazon (AMZN 1.95%) has generated massive multibagger gains since its initial public offering (IPO) on May 15, 1997. The stock went public at $18, or a split-adjusted price of $1.50 per share. If you had invested just $5,000 in that IPO, your stake would be worth nearly $11.4 million today.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has had four stock splits since its initial public offering in 1997, with its most recent one occurring in June 2022 in a 20-to-one split. The company has enjoyed immense success over the years by leading two crucial sectors: e-commerce and cloud computing.

Those gains translate to a 23.2% compound annual growth rate for Amazon compared to a 6.2% CAGR for the S&P 500 in that time. As a result, $10,000 in AMZN stock purchased 20 years ago would now be worth $645,262. A $10,000 investment in the S&P over the same period, however, would amount to $33,452.

What would $1 000 invested in Netflix stock 10 years ago be worth now? ›

If you had invested in Netflix ten years ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today. According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in February 2014 would be worth $9,138.15, or a gain of 813.81%, as of February 12, 2024, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.

The table below shows the present value (PV) of $10,000 in 20 years for interest rates from 2% to 30%. As you will see, the future value of $10,000 over 20 years can range from $14,859.47 to $1,900,496.38.

Ten years ago, at market close on March 28, 2014, Tesla's stock was trading at $14.16 per share. This means that $10,000 invested in Tesla in March 2014 would be worth about $124,145 today. This means that if you had invested $120,954.87 in Tesla stock in 2014, you may have been able to sell it today and retire.

As impressive as that is, original investors in Amazon fare even better. If you had invested $1,000 during Amazon's IPO in May 1997, your investment would be worth $1,341,000 as of August 31, according to CNBC calculations. That's better than the so-called FAANG stocks, plus Ebay – which debuted in that same period.

Indeed, Amazon is the highest-rated of all 30 Dow Jones stocks. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, the consensus analyst target price for AMZN stock is $214.91, representing implied upside of nearly 20% to current levels. Additionally, the consensus recommendation is a Strong Buy.

The stock has since soared more than 117,000%, which equates to an astonishing return of 32% annually over the last 25 years. Put another way, if you had invested $1,000 in Amazon stock at its IPO, it would be worth more than $1.1 million today.

Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997: by year-end, we had served more than 1.5 million customers, yielding 838% revenue growth to $147.8 million, and extended our market leadership despite aggressive competitive entry.

If you had invested $1,000 in Amazon's initial public offering in 1997, you would have roughly $250,000 currently. In 1986, if you had invested $1,000 in Microsoft, you would have approximately $500,000 today. Such gains from tech IPOs are extremely unlikely for public investors today.

A $1,000 investment could have purchased 7,692.31 shares of AAPL. The $1,000 investment in Apple stock at the time would be worth $1,455,538.90 today, based on a price of $189.22 for Apple at the time of writing.