[Statista] Which Big Tech Investment Paid Off the Most?

 

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Which Big Tech Investment Paid Off the Most?

by Florian Zandt, May 17, 2022

 

On May 18, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg took Facebook public in what became the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in tech history at the time. At close, 567 million shares had been traded at an average price of $38 per share, topping the record for the biggest first trading day set by General Motors in 2010 by around 120 million shares according to CNN. Now, Zuckerberg's company is called Meta and shares are traded at $200. How do these gains stack up to Meta's Big Tech competitors and which stock has become the most profitable over the last ten years?

As our chart based on data from Yahoo Finance and Statista calculations shows, investing in Amazon would've paid off the most when comparing the prices from today and ten years ago. Investing $1,000 on May 17, 2012, would have resulted in $10,149 today. Coming in second is Microsoft, which went public in 1986 and would have netted investors $8,798 over the last ten years if they would've bought company shares for $1,000 back then. Meta, on the other hand, sits in last place with only $5,264 generated out of $1,000.

Even though minor fluctuations in tech stock are not unusual, this sector has seen relatively big drops in the past couple of weeks. While share prices for Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple started going down at the beginning of April, Meta felt the stock market twinge even earlier. On January 10, the company's share price started its downhill tumble at about $332, now it's worth almost 40 percent less.

Some reasons for this dip in value include investors speculating that GAFAM will be coming down from its pandemic high sooner rather than later and the exorbitant rise in interest rates, which makes investing in safe bonds rather than high-risk stocks more appealing.

DESCRIPTION This chart shows the estimated current worth of $1,000 invested in GAFAM stocks ten years ago.

 

References: Statista

https://www.statista.com/chart/27455/estimated-current-worth-of-dollar1000-invested-in-gafam-stocks-ten-years-ago/

Summary

Yahoo Finance 및 Statista 계산 데이터를 기반으로 10년전 가격과 비교한 결과

• Amazon에 투자하는 것이 가장 큰 성과를 거두었을 것: 2012년 5월 17일에 $1,000를 투자했다면 오늘 $10,149가 되었을 것
• 2위는 마이크로소프트로 1986년 기업공개를 했으며 당시에 회사 주식을 $1000에 샀다면 오늘 $8,798의 순수익을 올렸을 것
• 반면 Meta는 $1,000 중 $5,264달러가 생성되어 최하위를 기록

GAFAM에 대한 지속적인 하락 중 몇 가지 이유는 GAFAM이 팬데믹 고점에서 조만간 벗어날 것이라고 추측하는 것과 이자율이 상승하여 고위험 주식보다 안전한 채권에 투자하는 것이 더 매력적이라고 ​​생각하는 것이 포함됨

Infographic: Which Big Tech Investment Paid Off the Most?