What If You'd Bought Apple Stock Instead of the First iPad?
$499 on the first iPad in 2010, or the same money in Apple stock
$23,106
would be worth today — 46.3x the price of the first iPad
Apple shares
69.96
Held for
16.5 years
S&P 500 instead
$4,367
The first iPad went on sale on Saturday, April 3, 2010, starting at $499 for 16GB with Wi-Fi. Markets were closed, so the stock is bought at Monday's close.
How we worked it out: Launch price: $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model. We put the $499 into Apple stock at its closing price on April 5, 2010 ($7.13, 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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Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.