The last decade has seen hot technology companies give extraordinary returns to their shareholders. If you had just blindly invested in them in the 2010s, you would have made a killing. Here’s how the data looks like.
Facebook Inc
31st Dec 2015: US$104.66
31st Dec 2019: US$205.25
Annual returns: 18.3%
Google Class A
31st Dec 2015: US$778.01
31st Dec 2019: US$1337.02
Annual returns: 14.5%
Apple Inc
31st Dec 2015: US$24.18
31st Dec 2019: US$72.19
Annual returns: 31.4%
Amazon
31st Dec 2015: US$675.89
31st Dec 2019: US$1847.84
Annual returns: 28.5%
These 4 companies have become so big that they now make up a good 16% of the S&P500 index. That’s right, these
4 companies make up 16% of an index that contains
500 companies! What’s more, the impressive thing is these juggernauts are not showing any signs of slowing down.
The bull run is not just limited to the 4 companies above. Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia all gave massive returns to their owners in the past decade. Despite their past success and high likelihood of...