If you invested $1,000 in Microsoft and Apple at IPO, this one would have made you 4 times as rich

A $1,000 investment in Apple on the day of its IPO on December 12, 1980, would be worth more than $425,000 today, according to CNBC calculations. However, a $1,000 investment in Microsoft on the day of its IPO on March 13, 1986, would be worth more than $1.7 million, or around four times more.

Those figures include price appreciation and dividends. Returns also account for stock splits and other corporate events.

Microsoft 

Microsoft’s popularity began to wane in the early 2000s as it released a string of unpopular products and failed to keep up with modern trends but, when Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, he oversaw a major turnaround.

Since Nadella took over, Microsoft’s share price has nearly tripled. In November, it dethroned Apple as the most valuable public company in the world, with a market cap of more than $850 billion. If Microsoft holds onto the spot through the end of the year, it will mark the first time since 2002 that the company closes out in the top position.

From 2014 to 2019, the stock of Microsoft tripled. 

Since Nadella took over, Microsoft’s share price has nearly tripled. In November, it dethroned Apple as the most valuable public company in the world, with a market cap of more than $850 billion. If Microsoft holds onto the spot through the end of the year, it will mark the first time since 2002 that the company closes out in the top position.