If you'd put $1,000 into Google stock 20 years ago, here's what you'd have today
According to a W. P. Carey finance expert, Google is one of the most successful stocks of all time.
In this story published Sept. 4, 2025, in Kiplinger:
GOOGL stock has been one of the best stocks of all time, according to research by Hendrik Bessembinder, a finance professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Over its entire lifetime as a publicly traded company, Alphabet generated more than $1 trillion in lifetime wealth creation, which accounts for a stock's increase in market cap adjusted for cash flows in and out of the business and other factors.
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