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Back when the company had its IPO in 1997, Amazon was pretty much just an online bookstore. The company sold its shares for just $18 to raise $54 million at a valuation of $438 million. Today, it takes Amazon about two days to raise that much cash (based on its 2016 free cash flow). If you had been able to buy $2,000 of Amazon's IPO and held on to it for the past 20 years, you'd be sitting on about $1,136,000 in Amazon stock today. That's a return of 56,821%, or an average of around 37% annually.
Amazon stock is on a seven-day winning streak. The shares have gained 7% during that stretch and more than 20% this year. As a result, Amazon is worth more than $430 billion. That's nearly twice the market value of its rival Walmart , which has a market cap of a mere $220 billion. Only Apple , Google owner Alphabet and Microsoft are worth more than Amazon. The Jeff Bezos-led company is now more valuable than Facebook and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway . Related: Bezos passes Buffett to become the world's second richest person. And with that $900 stock price, Amazon is approaching some rarefied air. The only company in the S&P 500 with a stock price in the quadruple digits is Priceline , which is trading at about $1,770 a share.