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This goes a long way toward its ability to pay hefty dividends to shareholders. On a per-share basis, Microsoft produced $2.20 per share in free cash flow over the last nine months, and paid just $0.84 per share in dividends during this time.
If you look at today's MSFT closing price of $27.69 down 6 cents; the March 1986 IPO price, accounting for 9 splits, would have cost you 9.7 cents. That would be almost what MSFT lost in value today. So 970 cents invested i.e. $9.70, would now be worth $2,769.00. Although quite a good record, the stock has lost value since its peak of about $60 in early 2000.