A sure thing

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You STILL got about 6% IRR ($10 in 1964 to now at $180).

Trying to figure out a good stock he could have bought in 1964 instead. How about Coca Cola? $10 would have gotten you about 4 shares? It has split a billion times since then, plus dividends.

 

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Trying to figure out a good stock he could have bought in 1964 instead. How about Coca Cola? $10 would have gotten you about 4 shares? It has split a billion times since then, plus dividends.

True enough. But for whatever reason, I don't look at things that I (or someone) didn't do, only things I (or someone) might wish they did more of. In other words "I shoulda put $50 on that horse instead of $2", rather than "Malabar in the 4th race paid 60 to 1", but I didn't get to the track until the 5th race. But neither of the two kinds of scenarios are really all that helpful unless you have a time machine. And then you'd go with the Malabar scenario, hehe.