What If You'd Bought Apple Stock Instead of AirPods?
$159 on AirPods in 2016, or the same money in Apple stock
$1,983
would be worth today — 12.5x the price of the AirPods
Apple shares
6.01
Held for
9.8 years
S&P 500 instead
$630.84
Apple's first AirPods went on sale on December 13, 2016, for $159.
How we worked it out: Launch price: $159. We put the $159 into Apple stock at its closing price on December 13, 2016 ($26.48, adjusted for later stock splits and dividends) and value those shares at today's price. Launch prices are US list prices before tax.
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