Now vs. IPO: Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google & Tesla

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Some companies have become household names because their products and services have been around for so long time, that we began to take them for granted. But we shouldn’t become oblivious to their long-term success, and how far they’ve evolved to where they are today. We will take a look at 5 companies and compare where they are today to where they were when they just IPOed.

Apple - when Apple IPOed, their main products are personal computers Apple II and Apple III. Today Apple is a behemoth in consumer electronics, as well as technological services. Their products and services are in our everyday lives.

Amazon - it was just a online book website back in 1997! Later it began to sell many more things. Then it entered into cloud. It made $31M revenue in 1997, and 2021 it made $470B!

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Microsoft - 1985 was still the era when you IPO, you need to be profitable already, even as a tech stock. Microsoft made a handsome $24M profits back in 1985. Now it made a whopping $61B net profits in 2021!

Google - Of the ‘old-school’ big 4, Google was the last to have IPOed. It was mostly an ads company in 2003, now it still is, just way bigger. Who would have thought Google could become this big and still makes most of its revenue from ads, at >$250B a year?

Tesla - it barely sold anything in 2008 when it IPOed. Not a surprise over the journey lots of people were naysayers. Equally unexpected, it now made more than $50B a year selling EVs.

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