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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Geek Trivia: What three Facebook non-founders stand to profit the most from the company's IPO? ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Easy... MSFT.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IPO was March 13, 1986; 8 months after my 18th birthday.... Initial stock price was $21, which would allow me to purchase 47 shares.[[ /me researches a little (read: googles) for value of 1 share then compounded today... ]]1 share at IPO equals 288 shares today (after splits) which would total 13,536 shares (for the above example.) At current stock price of $32/share, that would be worth $433,152.Not to mention this: Dividends started being paid per share just *after* the latest split - including one monster (the 4th dividend paid) of $3.08/share -- Total dividends paid per share was (if I didn't oops) $6.91/share * 13536 shares = $93,534 earned on dividends; so total value would be $526,685.[sigh] is right...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rmerchberger@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:19:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If you could go back in time and invest in one stock...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...what would it be, and when would you do it?Rules: You can't have bought the stock before your 18th birthday, and you can't spend more than $1,000.00.The easy answer for me is Apple. On Jul 17, 1996 (I was 19 years old, just out of my freshman year at college) and the AAPL stock price closed at $4.22 a share. For my thousand dollars, I could have bought about 237 shares.In Dec. of '96, Apple bought NeXT Computers, paving the way for Steve Jobs's return.Today, those shares would be worth $128,433.65.[sigh]]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Garmon]]></dc:creator>
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