Gmail Turns 20: If You Invested $1000 When Google Went Public 20 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (2024)

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What if you invested $1000 in Google 20 years ago? ›

Its stock price today is $150.93, which is an increase of 5,911% during this period. If you had invested $1,000 in Google stock on Aug. 19, 2004, today, you would have $60,107.

We watched the first trade, but it wasn't at $85—it was at $100, an 18% increase over our IPO price. Someone was making fast money. Despite our efforts, people were buying and flipping within an hour, taking a quick $15-a-share gain. The volume was huge.

As our chart shows, an initial investment of $1,000 at the IPO price of $85 would now be worth more than $65,000. A $5,000-investment is now worth more than $300k and anyone lucky enough to bet a little more than $15,000 on Google in 2004 is now sitting on $1 million worth of Alphabet shares.

Google's IPO was a major event in the tech world. Today, early investments in that initial offering have seen exponential growth, highlighting the tech giant's immense success. An initial investment of $85 for 1 share bought in the 2004 IPO has now turned $5,400.

$1000 invested in Google in 1998 as an Angel Investor would be worth ~$77,510,183 today. Who is the next Google that you are investing in now? Follow me on Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram for more exponential growth and investing insights.

The $250,000 Bezos invested into Google was to buy 3.3 million shares at $0.08. When Google went public in 2004, his shares were equivalent to $280 million - while it's unknown when he exited Google, but it's not likely he held onto them 20 years later.

As of 2024-05-27, the Fair Value of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) is 159.68 USD. This value is based on the Peter Lynch's Fair Value formula. With the current market price of 174.99 USD, the upside of Alphabet Inc is -8.8%.

Average Price Target

Based on 37 Wall Street analysts offering 12 month price targets for Alphabet Class A in the last 3 months. The average price target is $197.53 with a high forecast of $225.00 and a low forecast of $168.00. The average price target represents a 13.24% change from the last price of $174.44.

Is Google paying dividends? ›

Meta Platforms (META) made headlines in early February with the unexpected announcement that it was initiating a regular quarterly dividend. Now Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL), in conjunction with its first-quarter earnings release on April 25, said it is initiating a quarterly dividend for all its share classes.

As of today (2024-05-24), Alphabet(Google)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF is $73.15. The stock price of Alphabet(Google) is $176.33.

Apple's History

Apple went public on December 12th, 1980, with a share price of $22. Since then, the company's stock has split five times. On a split-adjusted basis, the IPO price was only $0.10.

Unlike Microsoft's stock vesting schedule, which vests equally across four years, the portion of GSUs that vest for Google employees will vary from year to year. About a third of them will vest at the end of your first year with the company, and the same is true for your second year.

The company went public at $85, sold 22.5 million shares and raised over $1.9 billion. Shares of Google rose 18.05% to $100.34 at the close on its IPO date. If you had been able to purchase Google's shares at $85, you would have acquired 12 shares, or $1,020 divided by $85, before the company split its stock.

So, if you had invested in Netflix ten years ago, you're likely feeling pretty good about your investment today. A $1000 investment made in March 2014 would be worth $9,728.72, or a gain of 872.87%, as of March 4, 2024, according to our calculations. This return excludes dividends but includes price appreciation.

19, 2004. The company went public at $85, sold 22.5 million shares and raised over $1.9 billion. Shares of Google rose 18.05% to $100.34 at the close on its IPO date. If you had been able to purchase Google's shares at $85, you would have acquired 12 shares, or $1,020 divided by $85, before the company split its stock.

The company has generated cash flow growth of 15.1%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 16.7% in 2024. Investors should take the time to consider GOOGL for their portfolios due to its solid Zacks Rank rating, notable growth metrics, and impressive Growth and VGM Style Scores.

Google was initially funded by an August 1998 investment of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. This initial investment served as a motivation to incorporate the company to be able to use the funds.