Outlook

If you bought Apple stock – instead of its products

by Mick Weinstein|Published March 11, 2011

Just had to have that bleeding edge PowerBook G3 in 1997? Well, if you had plunked down the $5,700 it ran you on Apple stock instead of the Apple laptop (with its massive 5GB hard drive), that stock would be worth over $330,000 today. Kyle Conroy put together this chart – depressing for many, no doubt – on what Apple stock (Nasdaq: AAPL) would be worth if you had bought it instead of the latest gear at the time of its release. Click to enlarge:

More products and Conroy’s data sources here.

Nick Bilton at the Bits blog at NYT adds:

Now if you had spent $3,500 for Hewlett-Packard stock in 1997 instead of an H-P laptop, you’d have shares worth $4,560.

AUTHOR

Mick Weinstein

Mick is the Head of Editorial for Covestor, a financial journalist and online content specialist. Prior to joining Covestor, Mick was for five years the Editor in Chief and VP Content at stock market analysis website Seeking Alpha, where he built the editorial function as the site attracted over 3.5 million unique monthly visitors and developed an innovative platform for intelligent stock market discussion. Mick is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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