$1,000 invested Amazon.com Inc. (2016)
NASDAQ · AMZN · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-09-11
Today you would have
$8,062
+$7,062 (+706.23%)
AMZNSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $31.85
- Current price
- $256.78
- Shares
- 31.3977
- CAGR
- +21.57%
- Max Drawdown
- -56.15%
- vs SPY
- +356.40 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 stake in Amazon from January 2016 was worth $8,062 by July 2026, a total return of +706.2% versus +349.8% for the S&P 500. Over the decade Amazon scaled AWS into a dominant cloud platform and greatly expanded its logistics network. Holding on required sitting through a maximum drawdown of 56.1%.
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