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True, this is a big part of it. However to calculate return people should also consider the dividends that Microsoft has been paying out as well (for longer tha
by travem 12y ago
True, this is a big part of it. However to calculate return people should also consider the dividends that Microsoft has been paying out as well (for longer than many competitors).
Starting on Jan 23rd 2009 (which is when the chart you linked to starts for me) an investment of just under $10K (with reinvested dividends) would leave you with just over $30k today [1] which is honestly not a bad return.
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/stockcalc.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/stockcalc...
- frostmatthew 12y agoSure that makes it outperform the S&P 500 over this arbitrary period, but still falls short from the other companies. It makes more sense though to look at it since he became CEO[1] in January of 2000. Now we see a huge difference with MSFT the only one in negative territory and the other companies having massive returns. Reinvesting dividends over this period would push this into positive territory, but it still wouldn't even outperform the S%P 500 (22.57% vs 34.99%). [1] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1408488110378&chddm=1433797&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:AAPL;NASDAQ:GOOG;NASDAQ:AMZN;NYSEARCA:SPY&cmptdms=0;0;0;0&q=NASDAQ:MSFT&ntsp=0&ei=jdHzU-jIFMqfrAHHp4GoCA https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
- kelukelugames 12y agoThe stock only increased by ~125%. Microsoft only started paying 3% dividends a few years ago. This does not add up to over 30k. It's barely 24k. Anyway, I do agree it's not a bad return. It's only bad relative to the other tech giants.