Value Today of $1000 Invested 5 Years ago (Bitcoin and Stock)

[BTC_Mouse]

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

[Fortify]

Interesting comparison, it would be nice to see a volatility index alongside it. It would also be interesting to see a year on year comparison as well, to see how much of the gains came from certain years. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I still think it is sensible to have a fair chunk invested in the stock market in dividend bearing companies - that way you have a steady return from company profits without having to sell anything off.

[bittick]

that's why some parties are trying to consider bitcoin as the future investment. That looks very interesting to see that. Even people have invested when the price of bitcoin was around 10k can still get 240% return in a short time.
Bitcoin is not yet adopted by a lot of big parties and when these parties will bring multi-billion dollars for bitcoin and I expect 5 years ago when people bought 1k worth of bitcoin will be $100k.

[newwest]

Bitcoin was one of the top choices for me and rightly so even this chart confirm the decision was correct. Just in order to diversify and not to keep allocation under one thing, we need to even invest some in stocks too but bitcoin is where you should have a greater allocation based on the risk. For longer term holding bitcoin is always favourable than stocks to me.

[Mauser]

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

That's a nice list. Imagine if you bought all of these stock's. It's good to know that behemoth like apple or amazon still made a decent return over the last 5 years. Bitcoin is definitely the best investment here and you don't have such high risks like when investing in some stocks.

[TGD]

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

Providing graphs and data like the price of each stock/BTC during purchase date then sold date will make this thread educational. You are providing data without source to easily verify your content. This thread is a very good comparison of investment in stocks to BTC, You just need to add more data to support it.

[Chrystora123]

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Bitcoin was the least interesting in investors 5 years ago of everything on the list but proven by the data is the most profitable asset.  a habit that always recurs is Bitcoin will be in demand when the price is high.  Bitcoin will definitely break through $ 25k soon..

[tabas]

It would be also a good comparison if you will make another comparison if someone invests with the same amount 10 years ago. There will be a massive gains for bitcoin on that chart and looking into other stocks, I don't think that there be any of them that can par with bitcoin.
Even with this simple chart for 5 years ago, shopify was the one that's close to it but that's not yet enough to par bitcoin. I've thought that Amazon took a lot of gains for the past 5 years and would be at the top of this but I'm wrong.

[dothebeats]

5 years ago, people are laughing at bitcoin because it's one of those investments that saw rapid decline from its 2013 ATH. Everyone at that point thought bitcoin was far gone, and would not survive the pressure from people who continuously sold whatever bitcoin they have left. I was one of the 'wiser' people who believed in it despite the general bearish sentiment towards bitcoin from this very forum. It paid off 2 years after, and have changed the way how I use my money. Also, shopify is not surprising to be at the top of the list, considering how drop shipping and e-commerce picked up the pace that was left stagnant by eBay and Amazon for quite some time.

[hatshepsut93]

The risk of buying Bitcoin 5 years ago was pretty big, and even today it's big too. Unlike with stocks, there no way to calculate how much Bitcoin should be worth, everyone is just taking a guess. So, there's nothing actually remarkable here that Bitcoin outperformed stocks, in fact if it didn't outperform them, it would have been a terrible investment, because you'd get less reward for more risk - just like we currently see with altcoin investments.

[Darker45]

Who would have thought, right? I got into Bitcoin almost 5 years ago and it was beyond my crazy imagination that Bitcoin would reach $24,000 a few years later. I guess many people weren't looking forward to a $24,000-Bitcoin at that time. While many were generally positive on Bitcoin's future, they must have sold a lot when their Bitcoin investment already doubled or tripled in value.

Well, lucky for those who have held on to their Bitcoin all these years. As for me, I learned a precious lesson. If $24,000 is possible in a decade's time, $30,000 is possible in a year's time.

[Wexnident]

Well, there's also the factor of time to consider tbh. Yes, it's quite obvious as a fact that Bitcoin as an investment in any time before today except the bull run in 2017 would show that investments would prove to be quite a profit, but let's also take into account how much of a bloody risk it was to invest in a completely unknown asset that, well, is quite revolutionary. Especially for people driven by profits, it's quite difficult to invest, even if it was only a part of their assets, to something they don't know much and is the first of its kind to actually come out.

Well, right now I'm also hoping to profit off of it though, hodl late, but hey, at the least it's a start right?

[Sithara007]

LOL.. the OP had carefully chosen year 2015 as the base. Back in 2015, we were having a very severe correction and the prices were down by 85%. If you take 2014 as the base year, then you will not get this much return. Anyway, you can't compare Bitcoin (which has been in existence for just 12 years), with stocks such as Amazon, Apple and Paypal which have been in existence for many decades. These stocks also gave very good returns, for those who invested in them during the early years.

[so98nn]

Interesting comparison, it would be nice to see a volatility index alongside it. It would also be interesting to see a year on year comparison as well, to see how much of the gains came from certain years. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I still think it is sensible to have a fair chunk invested in the stock market in dividend bearing companies - that way you have a steady return from company profits without having to sell anything off.

I think bitcoin coefficient of volatility stands at 150% for the period five years ago while today it stands at 50%. So the volatility has reduced a lot for the bitcoin if you compare periodic trends.

I am not sure about other stocks but they would never ever match the CoV of bitcoin since it's but obvious due to controlled nature of stocks.

@op that's amazing comparison and states how bitcoin is far more profitable than any other currency, commodity, assets or bonds throughout globe. It's powerful stuff. :-)

[exstasie]

The risk of buying Bitcoin 5 years ago was pretty big, and even today it's big too. Unlike with stocks, there no way to calculate how much Bitcoin should be worth, everyone is just taking a guess.

There is no intrinsic value, sure, but there are some thought experiments built around the idea of mass adoption that I think are informative.

For example, if everyone in the world wanted to own some BTC, there would only be 0.002-0.003 BTC per capita to go around. That means if you own 1 BTC (and manage to hold onto it into the new paradigm), it would likely put you within the purview of the world's financial elite.

Or consider the idea of central banks holding Bitcoin reserves. Today, they hold 17% of the world's gold. Just imagine them trying to obtain a few million BTC from the market.

We can only guess, but we also know the potential growth from here is insane. The sky is the limit.

[Josefjix]

The calculations proves how solving human problems yields profits and real time gain, Shopify and Bitcoin are the only investments that gave over 2000% profit in just 5 years and the don't need physical appearance necessarily. The stock market isn't as profitable as it used to be years back, so, I'm not a bit surprised with the result ROI.

[fiulpro]

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

Hello

I do think that you should make this list a little bit longer and at the same time you should publish it publicly on some site, Now What Would it do ??

- This would make people realize that Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are something that can make them understand the value in just a couple of years.

The thing is , if we could see stats of a person who invested in 2009, 2010 , the results are actually going to be astounding.

Let's consider this now :

The first real price increase occurred in July 2010 when the valuation of a bitcoin went from around $0.0008 to $0.08 for a single coin.

(Taken from google)

Let's consider you brought $1000 worth of bitcoins back when it started , then you will have :-

1000/0.0008= 1250000 BTC
Now if you 😂 do the maths , the value of those bitcoins that is :
1250000*24745 =30931250000 USD !!!

This would have made you a millionaire!!! According to me Bitcoins is one of the best investments one can make during this time. Even during the holiday season we have seen a really stable price.

[kolesozw]

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

Interesting, but result oriented.

It could be done in the other way:

If you invested $1,000 in 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

HSBC: $866
Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY): $300
Coty (COTY): $355

Or THIS: How WeWork spiraled from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks

https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo?

Just check every project and create your own opinion before investing.

[error08]

that's why some parties are trying to consider bitcoin as the future investment. That looks very interesting to see that. Even people have invested when the price of bitcoin was around 10k can still get 240% return in a short time.
Bitcoin is not yet adopted by a lot of big parties and when these parties will bring multi-billion dollars for bitcoin and I expect 5 years ago when people bought 1k worth of bitcoin will be $100k.

Bitcoin is on a different level compared to stocks, its growth over time is impressive, yet the volatility may hit harder when the time comes.
If we think about institutional investors and traditional payment companies adopt bitcoin as one of their options to bet on for the future, why they want to do it?
Probably the same reason that we have all the time, could it be the future of an alternative payment for fiat currency? a question to be answered by time.

[zanezane]

Who would have thought, right? I got into Bitcoin almost 5 years ago and it was beyond my crazy imagination that Bitcoin would reach $24,000 a few years later. I guess many people weren't looking forward to a $24,000-Bitcoin at that time. While many were generally positive on Bitcoin's future, they must have sold a lot when their Bitcoin investment already doubled or tripled in value.

Well, lucky for those who have held on to their Bitcoin all these years. As for me, I learned a precious lesson. If $24,000 is possible in a decade's time, $30,000 is possible in a year's time.

No one would've thought because if everyone speculates about the increase in prices then the proportion of people becoming more doubtful about the price increase increases also. The best thing to do right now would be to hold what is in your wallet or go all the way and sell everything whenever you feel that it will be enough. The lesson that I have learned so far is not be extreme when it comes to being optimist and pessimist, always consider that both scenario can happen.

If you invested $1,000 in BTC and Stock 5 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now:

Bitcoin : $51,269
Shopify : $46,905
Etsy : $22,320
Nvidia: $15,688
Tesla: $14,010
PayPal: $6,471
Apple: $4,850
Amazon : $4,718
Netflix : $4,385
Microsoft : $3,790
Facebook : $2,553
Google : $2,290

This list only makes me cry inside but I do not have the money back then so what can I do but to grind myself to get some for investment. In the end, we never knew that it will go this far, there were a lot of FUD's spread around that some were scared and at that time, scams were more bolder that they even held seminars and event gatherings that the people generalized bitcoin and put it together with the scams.