HOW MUCH WOULD 100 SHARES OF MICROSOFT STOCK BOUGHT IN 1985 BE WORTH IN 2002?

Hello.

If you bought 100 shares of Microsoft stock in 1985 and held that
stock until today, you'd have 14,400 shares, which would be worth
$715,824 based on today's closing price of $49.71 [quote retrieved
from Yahoo Finance: http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=msft&d=v1 ]

Microsoft has had eight stock splits, according to its web page:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/stock/splits.htm

Original 100 shares after the following splits:
September 1987 (2 for 1): 200 shares
April 1990 (2 for 1): 400 shares
June 1991 (3 for 2): 600 shares
June 1992 (3 for 2): 900 shares
May 1994 (2 for 1): 1800 shares
December 1996 (2 for 1): 3600 shares
February 1998 (2 for 1): 7200 shares
March 1999 (2 for 1): 14,400 shares

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I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 14 Aug 2002 23:00 PDT

I should note that Microsoft's initial public offering was actually on
March 13, 1986, according to the Microsoft web page mentioned above.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 14 Aug 2002 23:29 PDT

I should also note that the 1986 IPO price was $21, so the initial
investment in 100 shares would have cost $2100.

Very good research on the answer Thank You...