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"Apple is the most valuable company in the world today. If only you&amp;#8217;d predicted that coming two and a half decades ago, you&amp;#8217;d be a lot richer as well.\nThirty-five years ago this weekend, Apple \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\taapl\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t went public. At the offering price of $22 a share, 100 shares would have cost you $2,200. Since then the stock has split four times, including three 2-for-1 splits and one 7-for-1 split, which occurred last year.\nThat means your 100 shares would have multiplied into 5,600 today, and your initial investment would now be worth $632,800. That&amp;#8217;s a return of 28,663%. And that&amp;#8217;s before dividends, which would have added another $5,936 to your return so far this year alone.\n\nBy comparison, a $2,200 investment in the S&amp;amp;P 500 in the same time would have netted you about $79,000. Even betting on Warren Buffett, often considered the greatest investor of all time, won&amp;#8217;t have made you as much money. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbrk.a\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t are up about 7,500% in the same time, turning your then $2,200 investment in to $167,200.\nBut you would have had to see greatness four years before the company launched the Macintosh. And you would have had to hold on to the company&amp;#8217;s stock through the Steve Job-less years. Through much of the 1990s, Apple&amp;#8217;s shares went nowhere. But for the faithful, the wait would have, obviously, more than paid off."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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