If you'd put $1,000 into IBM stock 20 years ago, here's what you'd have today
IBM stock created over $525 billion for shareholders between 1926 and 2019, according to a W. P. Carey finance expert.
In this story published Oct. 9, 2025, in Kiplinger:
IBM stock was a fantastic buy-and-hold bet over those many decades. From 1926 to December 2019, IBM created $525.9 billion in shareholder wealth, according to research by Hendrik Bessembinder, a finance professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
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