Facebook IPO: If You Bought 10 Shares of …
By ZUNAIRA ZAKI and LAUREN PEARLE
In the coulda/woulda/shoulda category with Facebook's upcoming IPO, here is how you might have fared with some other IPO stocks:
- Johnson & Johnson for $375 at its IPO price in 1944, your investment would be worth about $10 million (source: Johnson & Johnson)
- Apple for $220 at its IPO price in 1980, your investment would be worth about $44,800
- Amazon for $180 at its IPO price in 1997, your investment would be worth about $27,240
- Google for $85 at its IPO price in 2004, your investment would be worth about $6,111
- McDonald's for $225 during its IPO in 1965, it would now be worth about $676,000. (source: McDonald's)
- AOL for $254.50 at its (second) IPO price in 2009, it would now be worth about $270 (you made essentially no profit, taking inflation into account)
- PETS.com for $1,110 at its IPO price in 2000, it would now be worth NOTHING