Best Answer: $7,974.72. The offering price of MSFT stock was $21.00 per share at the IPO on March 13, 1986. If you had bought 1 share at the offering, you would now have 288 split-adjusted shares. So you would be worth 288 * 27.69 = $7,974.72. An interesting way to look at the increase in Microsoft, since it went public:
Cost from Penn Station: LIRR -- $6.25 (off-peak), plus AirTrain -- $5.00. Total time: 52 minutes door-to-door (my terminal was the last stop on the AirTrain, so may be shorter time for you). 184 people voted for this review
A discount rate of 7.95% was used to estimate the total benefits, in 2002 dollars. The net benefits were evaluated to be $2,067,263,000. The estimated costs for constructing and operating the monorail are $1.68 billion (in 2002 dollars). This includes a total capital cost of $1.26 billion and a total discounted stream of operating costs of $420 million (at approximately $29 million a year), using the same discount rate (7.95%).