$1,000 invested Amazon.com Inc. (2016)
NASDAQ · AMZN · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-08-28
Today you would have
$8,365
+$7,365 (+736.53%)
AMZNSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $31.85
- Current price
- $266.43
- Shares
- 31.3977
- CAGR
- +22.08%
- Max Drawdown
- -56.15%
- vs SPY
- +383.72 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 stake in Amazon from January 2016 was worth $8,365 by July 2026, a total return of +736.5% versus +352.8% 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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