$1,000 invested International Business Machines (2016)
NYSE · IBM · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-10-15
Today you would have
$2,790
+$1,790 (+179.04%)
IBMSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $83.90
- Current price
- $234.12
- Shares
- 11.9186
- CAGR
- +9.99%
- Max Drawdown
- -40.59%
- vs SPY
- -175.20 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 position in IBM opened in early 2016 was worth $2,790 by mid-2026, a total return of +179.0%. The company spent much of the decade reshaping itself around hybrid cloud, including the major acquisition of Red Hat, before its later AI-driven recovery. The S&P 500 returned +354.2% over the same period, well ahead of IBM.
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