What If You'd Bought Google Stock Instead of the First Pixel Phone?

$649 on the first Google Pixel in 2016, or the same money in Google stock

$5,547

would be worth today — 8.55x the price of the first Google Pixel

Google shares

16.44

Held for

9.9 years

S&P 500 instead

$2,742

Google's first Pixel phone went on sale on October 20, 2016, starting at $649.

How we worked it out: Launch price: $649 for the 32GB model. We put the $649 into Google stock at its closing price on October 20, 2016 ($39.47, 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.