You'd have made around $15,958.00
If you invested $1,000.00 in MSFT on 1/4/10. Today, your shares would be worth around $15,954.12 - a gain of $14,954.12 on price alone - buuuUUUuut you'd also have received $1,003.88 in dividends, for a net gain of $15,958.00 (1,595.80% total return).
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Uninvested cash keeps its nominal value, but inflation erodes what it can actually buy
Your investment grew by an average of 0.26% per day over this window (simple average of total return over 16 years 261 days).
Projected at 18.45% annually if the same growth rate compounded over a full year (16 years 261 days).
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