$1,000 invested Amazon.com Inc. (2016)
NASDAQ · AMZN · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-10-15
Today you would have
$7,999
+$6,999 (+699.89%)
AMZNSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $31.85
- Current price
- $254.76
- Shares
- 31.3977
- CAGR
- +21.28%
- Max Drawdown
- -56.15%
- vs SPY
- +345.65 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 stake in Amazon from January 2016 was worth $7,999 by July 2026, a total return of +699.9% versus +354.2% 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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