Good evening, all.
This is the final post in my series outlining how investing $1,000 can set your child up for life.
If you missed any part of this series, or just want to go over it from the beginning, click here. All the posts are listed from the bottom up.
This last post is meant to serve as an inspiration to you. It’s a list of real-life investments that your parents could have made that turned your birthday into a true bonanza.
Find the year that you were born, and take a look. Where would you be today had your parents invested $1000 in the listed stock?
Best Birthday Bonanza Stocks Over the Last 50 Years
| Birth Year | Stock | Initial Investment | Total Value, July 2018 |
| 1968 | Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO) | $1000 | $1,250,000 |
| 1969 | Town Centre Securities (LON: TOWN) | $1000 | $1,100,000 |
| 1970 | Walmart (NYSE: WMT) | $1000 | $11,000,000 |
| 1971 | Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) | $1000 | $1,000,000 |
| 1972 | Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) | $1000 | $3,000,000 |
| 1973 | Walgreens (NASDAQ: WBA) | $1000 | $700,000 |
| 1974 | Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) | $1000 | $4,500,000 |
| 1975 | TD Bank (NYSE: TD) | $1000 | $400,000 |
| 1976 | Boeing (NYSE: BA) | $1000 | $1,300,000 |
| 1977 | Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) | $1000 | $5,000,000 |
| 1978 | Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) | $1000 | $200,000 |
| 1979 | Eaton Vance (NYSE: EV) | $1000 | $200,000 |
| 1980 | Kellogg (NYSE: K) | $1000 | $95,600 |
| 1981 | Home Depot (NYSE: HD) | $1000 | $8,377,680 |
| 1982 | Bemis (NYSE: BMS) | $1000 | $2,000,000 |
| 1983 | M & T Bank (NYSE: MTB) | $1000 | $3,100,000 |
| 1984 | United Healthcare (NYSE: UNH) | $1000 | $2,153,536 |
| 1985 | McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) | $1000 | $108,000 |
| 1986 | Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) | $1000 | $1,316,158 |
| 1987 | Nike (NYSE: NKE) | $1000 | $1,529,800 |
| 1988 | Dell Computer (NYSE: DVMT) | $1000 | $157,000 |
| 1989 | Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) | $1000 | $31,481 |
| 1990 | Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) | $1000 | $440,000 |
| 1991 | Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) | $1000 | $125,300 |
| 1992 | Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) | $1000 | $950,000 |
| 1993 | Infosys (NYSE: INFY) | $1000 | $1,600,000 |
| 1994 | Capita (LON: CPI) | $1000 | $50,000 |
| 1995 | Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) | $1000 | $435,018 |
| 1996 | Yahoo (NASDAQ: AABA) | $1000 | $60,000 |
| 1997 | Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) | $1000 | $550,000 |
| 1998 | eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) | $1000 | $180,000 |
| 1999 | Keurig Green Mountain (no longer publicly traded) | $1000 | $500,000 |
| 2000 | Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) | $1000 | $103,700 |
| 2001 | Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) | $1000 | $46,140 |
| 2002 | Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) | $1000 | $22,000 |
| 2003 | Marvel Entertainment (acquired by Disney, no longer publicly traded) | $1000 | 18,926 |
| 2004 | Booking Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: BKNG; formerly Priceline, NASDAQ: PCLN) | $1000 | $79,787 |
| 2005 | Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) | $1000 | $31,260 |
| 2006 | Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) | $1000 | $89,400 |
| 2007 | Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) | $1000 | $8,000 |
| 2008 | Panera Bread (no longer publicly traded) | $1000 | $9,000 |
| 2009 | Pharmacyclics (no longer publicly traded) | $1000 | $172,000 |
| 2010 | Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) | $1000 | $43,837 |
You can do this for your child.
Study this series. Read my guide, The Stock Market is For Everyone. You can also reach out to me for assistance.
However you do it – please do it.
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