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Apple traded at a split-adjusted price of $0.13 on the Monday after Super Bowl XVII (Jan. 23, 1984). A $1,000 investment could have purchased 7,692.31 shares of AAPL.
Forget that. APPL opened in 1981 at $0.154 so for $1000 invested that would have been 6493.51 shares
06/16/1987 2 for 1 = 12,987.01
06/21/2000 2 for 1 = 25,874.02
02/28/2005 2 for 1 = 51,948.05
06/09/2014 7 for 1 = 363,636.36
08/31/2020 4 for 1 = 1,454,545.45 shares held today.
$239,010,909.09. Today’s value in real numbers without the phony “split-adjustment”