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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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