[papercrane]

You can't just look at the stock price. INTC has split and had dividends since 1998.

If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.

[modeless]

Is there any site that shows historical stock graphs with an option to include dividend reinvestment and adjust for inflation? Practically every online conversation about stock returns makes these mistakes.

[Wytwwww]

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio

Is pretty good.

[ucha]

Koyfin and yCharts do that. You're looking for "total return".

[happyopossum]

That's just over a 4% annualized return, if we back out inflation it's about 1.5%.

That's still crap. The only way you'd be in decent shape is if you took the dividends and invested those in any of INTC's competitors.

[defen]

Just imagine if you'd invested that money in Domino's Pizza instead (the hungry investor strategy). You'd have like $350,000.