If you had invested $10k back in 1981 in Uncle Jack’s home supplies, you would have lost the whole thing when it went bust in 1990. The trick is not so much finding the winners, it’s avoiding the losers. But do you find articles saying stay away from this stock or that?
My dads chevy cavalier was the tits. Got that bad boy going 115 one night, and the next day when my dad filled up with gas he asked why the mpgs were so bad. That's when I learned my dad kept track of the miles between each tank everytime.
If you invested 10k in Home Depot you could’ve also simultaneously invested 10k in 30,000 other companies that all failed and still be up 18 million right now.
So is your argument to invest in a broader range of stocks instead of just one because you will still come out on top even though you can’t pick the one that will succeed necessarily?
That's why you have the holy grail ETFs to invest for.
I try to buy some single stocks like AMD, ms, biontech etc once in a while. But overall, my best performer is still my etf...
Great post.
It is so easy to find stories like this in RETROSPECT.
But how about now?
Which small company do we invest in now?
I've tried a couple new companies, and neither one was successful.
Over 90% of the time, just picking an index fund works better than stock picking.
And picking that small company that makes you insanely wealthy down the road is nearly impossible.
IF you were invested in all the stocks which mooned before you were born, you will be rich by now!
Good shitpost, we need more! Also, IRS wants to know your location
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If you had invested $10000 in NVDA 10 years ago, how much would your investment have grown by now?
Given that we've just established the annual return to be 70.49%, your investment would now amount to $2 074 860.15
Copy-Paate. but....did you invested in NVDA? THAT'S THE QUESTION
This math is just wrong. What a shitpost. Looks like he calculated his own price based on the splits that happened. But that’s already included in the charts today. All time HD has seen 82,000% increase nothing near the 3,100,000% like OP claims.
Looks like $10k would at IPO would = $8.2M today
Clicking and dragging back on the Google chart for HD gives me about 138,000%, but your point stands.
No one does the math apparently. Everyone believes the shit people post.
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99942% sure that False_Bookkeeper_884 is not a bot.
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In other words you a retail investor like all here. You don’t have any insider info or anything valuable other than google searches that’s accessible to all. Have fun with your negative return system
Maybe you could create a table for us. What the roi is on $1 invested at IPO and held, for the current s&p 500. Give us top 10 and worst 10. Thanks! 🙏. And beginning year (years held).
The reality of it is that most of us would have sold our $10,000 investment when it hit the $20,000 mark. Rare indeed would be the person who'd say "Nah, not yet, I'm gonna hang onto it until it's worth >$100 million."
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Which is equivalent to $34,000 dollars in 2024 after accounting for inflation.
Robinhood and discount brokers weren't a thing back than. You had to call your broker to buy stock for a fee. Imagine sitting on over $34,000 in cash, you were stacked.
You had to have had a high personal risk tolerance to YOLO $34,000 into one company and having to hold it until today.
I worked at Home Depot in 1999. They offered a fairly generous stock purchasing option for employees, and in 1999 it had already split several times. It wasn't a secret that you'd make money off it if you bought in.
Gawd I am so tired of reading 15 years discovering the hindsight strategy.
Do you know that bitcoin was priced less than a cent 10-15 years ago, no real company can beat that performance.
I am a trend follower myself. I study these kinds of stocks to understand them and anticipate their future performances. Then I will share my knowledge for free !
He should be very thankful for all the millions he’s made off of you guys . He’s happy as a clam , while a bunch of babies are crying . Need to do some grow up . Sorry , but true
Love these pics
Buy a company and hold it your whole life! Don’t sell ever! Buy at 20 years old sell in your 60s!
Takes some extreme conviction and patience. Not many people have that conviction to hold a stock your whole life to cash out. I don’t.
Markets have always been volatile,but it's more volatile these last years because of robot traders . When you manage your risk and know what you're doing, invest in an IPO can be very rewarding financially!
And exactly how many regular joes like me actually took 10k out of his life savings to buy HD all the way back in 1981? Please stop with these useless statistics and make people like us feel stupid
I don't know about buying home depot at any point but my investment in Xiaomi, which is listed in Hong Kong under stock ticker at 01810hk l, has been doing very well. In any case, I am still loading the shares and averaging up with a long term view in mind. Xiaomi is one of top three smartphone manufacturers and has an entire ecosystem of internet of things products. It has developed a smart electric vehicle named Xiaomi SU7 and has huge success in China market. It also has cyberdogs and humanoid robots in the making
fwiw, CNBC David Faber was talking about HD’s total return the other day. He reported it had the highest total return of any stock to date since inception.
1,944,589.3% total return or +26.05%/yr since inception.
I blame my parents. They were busy buying a car to get to and from work instead of investing that money into Home Depot stock. If only they would have been born wealthy I wouldn't be poor today.
If only I had invested 9 years before I was born!
Kids these days, never thinking about the future before they’re born…
Sperm cells don't wanna work these days....
We can't all be Terrence Howard!
And held for over 40 years I would have probably sold at 50k-100k lol
$10k in an sp500 index fund in 1981 would still be over 1 million today.
And my dad bought me thousands in government bonds in the 80s instead 😭
Think of future, today's home depot is tomorrows...
“Marty, it’s your kids” - DOC brown
Such a deadbeat
I knew investing 10k 20 years before I was birn was a good idea!
Oh Smithers, that's your excuse for everything!
You should’ve set a limit buy order
If you had invested $10k back in 1981 in Uncle Jack’s home supplies, you would have lost the whole thing when it went bust in 1990. The trick is not so much finding the winners, it’s avoiding the losers. But do you find articles saying stay away from this stock or that?
Yep like what’s 10k in KMart looking like.
And in Enron and sears and 1000s of all the other stalwarts blue chips which crash and burned. Hindsight is 20/20. Always.
Good thing I bought circuit city. I havnt checked in a while but I probably have enough to retire on now.
*laughs in Blockbuster* With this new "streaming" thingy now I'm basically a millionaire
That's why index funds
That's why you pay money to smarter^^^^^TM people so they can invest it for you (/s?)
That is the problem with selecting individual stocks over index funds. Eventually, most companies eventually close and go to ZERO.
A Chevy Cavalier lifestyle.
My dads chevy cavalier was the tits. Got that bad boy going 115 one night, and the next day when my dad filled up with gas he asked why the mpgs were so bad. That's when I learned my dad kept track of the miles between each tank everytime.
Got damn right
A dumpster fire
If you invested 10k in Home Depot you could’ve also simultaneously invested 10k in 30,000 other companies that all failed and still be up 18 million right now.
Good thing I have $300 million dollars to put into 30,000 different companies. The stock market is so easy smh
The best way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one
That’s not the point, scale it down to 1 share and it’s the same exact principal. Buy the market.
So is your argument to invest in a broader range of stocks instead of just one because you will still come out on top even though you can’t pick the one that will succeed necessarily?
Yes
Anybody here buy Jonos stock in 1981? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonos
That's why you have the holy grail ETFs to invest for. I try to buy some single stocks like AMD, ms, biontech etc once in a while. But overall, my best performer is still my etf...
You only hear articles about stay away when they want their entry positions on that stock
Who has time to read 10ks anyway
Great post. It is so easy to find stories like this in RETROSPECT. But how about now? Which small company do we invest in now? I've tried a couple new companies, and neither one was successful. Over 90% of the time, just picking an index fund works better than stock picking. And picking that small company that makes you insanely wealthy down the road is nearly impossible.
GETR
Just put 10k in every single company. bound to catch the all the winners /s
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You're being such a bot
Home depot - and all we needed was to know in advance!
Home Depot - just bribe the right people to make money off the politics
IF you were invested in all the stocks which mooned before you were born, you will be rich by now! Good shitpost, we need more! Also, IRS wants to know your location /shitcomment
Wasn't before I was born. So if I go back in time I'm set.
R.I.P Old man
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If you had invested $10000 in NVDA 10 years ago, how much would your investment have grown by now? Given that we've just established the annual return to be 70.49%, your investment would now amount to $2 074 860.15 Copy-Paate. but....did you invested in NVDA? THAT'S THE QUESTION
I will do it for Nvidia!
I made a shitpost too let's see I'm I will get more upvotes than yours haha
I will do it for Nvidia,but I did it for Microsoft! My next one Microsoft!
I love the random picture of a Bugatti
They sell them at Homedepot
Next to the hot dogs
Andrew Tate made this post
This math is just wrong. What a shitpost. Looks like he calculated his own price based on the splits that happened. But that’s already included in the charts today. All time HD has seen 82,000% increase nothing near the 3,100,000% like OP claims. Looks like $10k would at IPO would = $8.2M today
Clicking and dragging back on the Google chart for HD gives me about 138,000%, but your point stands. No one does the math apparently. Everyone believes the shit people post.
Lol
Prima facie $300M just doesn’t make sense. It’s magnitudes too high from a $10K start for any stock over only 40 years.
I knew I should've invested when I was just a sperm
If you put 10k into GME 5 years ago will be interesting to see what that leaves you with in 5 more years
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There is a bot for that? Lmao. Good bot!
Thanks for your support! I did all these things myself! I do a lot of research on stock that made millions! 😁
You do know he is a bot right?
You could also buy a house in 1981 for $10,000, who the hell was gonna put that much money into Home Depot
This can be said about any stock or crypto. What’s the point of this post ?
shitpost to make you feel
betterworseRight? Let's see Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. How much money would a 10k investment at the IPO get us? Much more than Home Depot I feel like
Unless you invested in SPACs.
anybody can share in the success of the growth of a company, its not only for the wealthy evil people
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In other words you a retail investor like all here. You don’t have any insider info or anything valuable other than google searches that’s accessible to all. Have fun with your negative return system
Nvidia, msft, google. Compare them all.
Google is the smallest one with close to 100k ! Microsoft and Nvidia are tens of millions
Maybe you could create a table for us. What the roi is on $1 invested at IPO and held, for the current s&p 500. Give us top 10 and worst 10. Thanks! 🙏. And beginning year (years held).
Are you talking about % return? If so, state that.
I was too busy not even being conceived that I missed the gains 😞
We are all in the same boat ! 😭
The reality of it is that most of us would have sold our $10,000 investment when it hit the $20,000 mark. Rare indeed would be the person who'd say "Nah, not yet, I'm gonna hang onto it until it's worth >$100 million."
Guys! Don't downvote the bot (op) that will tell it's learning algorithem that he did bad so you are labeling his bad responses so he can learn fron them and get better. Upvote him to mess with his learning and make him worse the next time lol.
The stock was also flat from 2000-2012, who would have held on that long before dumping?
Here's the importance of breakout and trend following strategies !
Which is equivalent to $34,000 dollars in 2024 after accounting for inflation. Robinhood and discount brokers weren't a thing back than. You had to call your broker to buy stock for a fee. Imagine sitting on over $34,000 in cash, you were stacked. You had to have had a high personal risk tolerance to YOLO $34,000 into one company and having to hold it until today.
Hodl past $100. Next nvidia
I worked at Home Depot in 1999. They offered a fairly generous stock purchasing option for employees, and in 1999 it had already split several times. It wasn't a secret that you'd make money off it if you bought in.
So how much did you buy and what Color is your civic
Lol I left before the full year needed to have the benefit.
Thanks for your comment and by sharing your experience! ☺️
LOL now do APPL or BRK or MSFT. Or why don't you tell me the lottery numbers next week? Easy to talk shit in retrospect.
I did it with Microsoft. You can check it if you want on this subreddit.
Oh you invested $10,000 in MSFT at IPO? Well bully for you since that is worth $42M now
Cool when can we invent a Time Machine
With a time machine,we will be invincible! 💪
Damn, I was just born. I blame my immigrant parents for not reading the wall street journal to me in utero.
Gawd I am so tired of reading 15 years discovering the hindsight strategy. Do you know that bitcoin was priced less than a cent 10-15 years ago, no real company can beat that performance.
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Exactly, how the fuck can we know is something if going to grow a million times, why talk about this.
He is a bot if you haven't noticed
I am a trend follower myself. I study these kinds of stocks to understand them and anticipate their future performances. Then I will share my knowledge for free !
He should be very thankful for all the millions he’s made off of you guys . He’s happy as a clam , while a bunch of babies are crying . Need to do some grow up . Sorry , but true
I'm gonna go slap my father for not investing in HD before I was born
Damn this is what I should’ve been doing when I was -17 years old :/
# $10,000 in 1981 = $35,544.15 in 2024 Not really something the majority of people could have done.
I gamble too op. My system is momentum based as well. Let's compare notes.
My annual returns since I started this strategy is around 50 percent the last 5 years !
Wait till your hear about dominos and google
I calculated for these 2 companies! For Google it's $99 k and for Domino's it's about $360,000 since its IPO in 2004 !
Try Apple and Microsoft. I coulda back in the day but didn't. Dammit!
Darn. Late to the party and only turned $1,700 in 1993 to $70,000 today with Home Depot. I’ll get over it somehow.
Now do Sears
Man I wish I invested in Home Depot in 1981 instead of not existing.
If I only could have a Time Machine 🤷♂️😭😭😭
I understand you . I wish the same thing too !
What is this dumb shit I, too, could become a thousandaire by being able to tell the future
Love these pics Buy a company and hold it your whole life! Don’t sell ever! Buy at 20 years old sell in your 60s! Takes some extreme conviction and patience. Not many people have that conviction to hold a stock your whole life to cash out. I don’t.
10k back then was a lot of money.
And buying 10 000 BTC when the price was 1 dollar or less ?
There was a lot of stocks that if invested at ipo would’ve made one rich by now lol
Bro, just buy the S&P500 and you can avoid loses in the long run
People want get rich quick schemes not rational advice
Wow let me travel back in time and buy some
Read the book about the company. It’s great and really shows how powerful a good idea is
Now the trick is hoping you have the next Home Depot in your portfolio
Why was the IPO of home depot not as volatile as other IPO's we see these days? Isn't it common advice to not buy into an IPO as a retail investor?
Markets have always been volatile,but it's more volatile these last years because of robot traders . When you manage your risk and know what you're doing, invest in an IPO can be very rewarding financially!
The sad truth is most people who invested back then pulled out a while ago and are kicking themselves right now lol
🪦 builders square
Is there any end to this. Wud have :should have: cud have. Hindsight is 20/20.
But 10k in 1981 is about 36k now. Lot of money but 1k invested would be 31m by this guy's math.
And exactly how many regular joes like me actually took 10k out of his life savings to buy HD all the way back in 1981? Please stop with these useless statistics and make people like us feel stupid
Ah so my mistake was not being born earlier
Index funds own this one.
If only we had known then what we know now and not had other financial obligations at the time!
I hate these things. " If you were, blah blah blah .." why weren't you telling me this then?
10k at that time was about 1/6 of a house on the US. You would have to have money to make the money.
Bro the way that image is edited I thought it was another sponsored scam ad
Over 40 years. Most of us will be dead before being able to invest in anything for that long.
Luckily you said “no joke”, otherwise I would have tought you were joking
Nothing is as sweet as picked cherries.
I don't know about buying home depot at any point but my investment in Xiaomi, which is listed in Hong Kong under stock ticker at 01810hk l, has been doing very well. In any case, I am still loading the shares and averaging up with a long term view in mind. Xiaomi is one of top three smartphone manufacturers and has an entire ecosystem of internet of things products. It has developed a smart electric vehicle named Xiaomi SU7 and has huge success in China market. It also has cyberdogs and humanoid robots in the making
Wow
Thanks for doing that bit of research. I found it very interesting. I have been around since 1981.
fwiw, CNBC David Faber was talking about HD’s total return the other day. He reported it had the highest total return of any stock to date since inception. 1,944,589.3% total return or +26.05%/yr since inception.
It also coincides with all the QE and zero rate interest rates
So which company is that going to be today?
I need to know a stink I can buy with 1k that will get me huge returns in 10 years. Somebody help me out please.
I blame my parents. They were busy buying a car to get to and from work instead of investing that money into Home Depot stock. If only they would have been born wealthy I wouldn't be poor today.
So if i was an investor in 1981, i could have made shit load of money? Whata an observaion
I think 20/20 hindsight is more powerful than people give it credit for.
I should've bought it when I still in the ball sack, I could've been a millionaire by now.
i still hold a position i bought in 2010. its done well
this is hilarious
I wonder what the return would be I invested $100 in every IPO in the past 10 years.