If you invested $1,000 in Microsoft in 2009, here’s how much you’d have now

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If you had invested in Microsoft 10 years ago, that decision would have paid off. According to CNBC calculations, a $1,000 investment made on April 25, 2009, would be worth nearly $8,000 as of midday April 25, 2019, for a total return of almost 700%.

Over the same period, the S&P 500 returned just over 300%.

And Microsoft’s stock is trending up: It ended Thursday with a gain of more than 3% after earlier in the day briefly surging 5% to a $1 trillion market cap. Revenue climbed 14% to $30.6 billion, beating the $29.84 billion estimate.