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If you'd put $1,000 into Microsoft stock 20 years ago, here's what you'd have today

A finance expert calculates the wealth Microsoft has generated for its shareholders.

In this story published April 25, 2023, on Kiplinger:

Along the way, Microsoft stock generated $1.91 trillion in wealth for shareholders, good for an annualized dollar weighted return of 19.2%, according to Hendrik Bessembinder, professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.


Hendrick Bessembinder, professor of finance and Francis J. and Mary B. Labriola Chair in Competitive Business

Learn more about Professor Bessembinder's research.

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