By Bram Berkowitz
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 17:00:00
Key Points
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Investors who purchased Microsoft stock in the 1980s or 1990s and held on have enjoyed exceptional returns.
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Microsoft is expected to remain a strong beneficiary of the artificial intelligence megatrend.
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Tech giant and “Magnificent Seven” member Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs no introduction. Many people interact with its products and services on a regular basis, whether that involves using its suite of business productivity programs to get work done, playing video games on its Xbox console, or making connections and networking on social media platform LinkedIn.
Investors who bought Microsoft around the time the company went public in 1986 have done remarkably well. In fact, if you’d invested just $300 in the company back then and held on firmly in the decades that followed, you’d have a position worth over $1.4 million now.
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