Personal & Random 04 Oct 2005 10:38 am
Go AAPL Go!
AAPL is at a new 52-week high.
Back on April 19, I bought 14 shares of AAPL at $36.28. It's now at $54.92 That's almost a $20 increase per share in 6 months.
I am sad, though, because I considered buying AAPL when it was around $5/share back in January of 2003, but I didn't consider it a good risk. I really contemplated buying it, but opted to go for something else (which lost me money). I sort of regret it now, but not really. There was no way to know that the iPod would take off and spur all kinds of new Apple growth, so I don't kick myself too hard. I had about $800 to invest then, and today that would be…
::drumroll please::
$7304.36
Yikes.
on 04 Oct 2005 at 10:49 am 1.Jacqui said …
Actually, it would be more than that, because Apple stock has split between 2003 and now. So you would have double the # of shares you bought in 2003.
So if you spent $800 in 2003, you would have bought 160 shares. It would have split in 2005 (I forget when though), so you'd have 320 shares. 320 shares at $54.92 is… $17,574.40.
Unless I'm on total crack, which I may be…
on 04 Oct 2005 at 10:55 am 2.Rian said …
:'(
on 04 Oct 2005 at 11:03 am 3.Jacqui said …
You're tellin' me, buddy.
on 04 Oct 2005 at 11:14 am 4.d said …
jacqui, that's incorrect as the graph is already adjusted for splits. the price was never $5, it was at its lowest $14.10 in Jan 03. He could have bought about 56 shares, which would be "worth" $3K now. still a big leap but not that big.
on 04 Oct 2005 at 12:07 pm 5.Jacqui said …
d - I was thinking about that after I posted it.