Google shares climb above $500!
This post was published 3 years 3 months 27 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Out of curiosity, are there any readers who own a share of Google? The latest news that Google shares have climbed above $500 is amazing. Whodathunk that a company started in the 90’s dedicated at crawling the web would transform into such a large influence on the net?
Today, Google’s shares gained $14.60, or 3 percent to close at $509.65, passing the $500 mark for the first time. (Mr. Mahaney, whose sell recommendation came at $137, is now among those predicting that it will rise to $600 within a year.)
Not bad for a company that was forced to reduce its initial share price to $85 barely two years ago because of lackluster demand. It quickly confounded the skeptics, rising to $100 on the first day of trading, and hitting closes of $200, $300 and $400 all within the course of 2005.
Time for someone to invent a time machine to take me back to high school to invest in Google.
man wouldn’t that be nice :)
I used to own a measly 5 shares.
It was so volatile and i was stupid about 6 months ago and sold it at a $200 loss.
Stupid me.
At least i own a butt-load of Apple stock and am making like $100 a day on that recently.
Sooo…who was smart and bought at google’s IPO? Not, thats for @$^& sure.
I own about 4 shares bought back when it was sub $300
i own 1 share, i got it in january right around the time of the doj hearings, right in the middle of its slump from 450 down to below 350, i paid 393 for it. I kinda wish i got some more of it when it was down this past winter, but, whatever.
just the thought of watching it go public a few years back in my friends kitchen and saying “hmmm, wonder how thats going to work out for them” is a sign that NO ONE could have predicted they’d become such a huge influence on technology, and the market…. Derek.. if you get a response on that time machine thing… can I ride shotgun?
P.S. congrats on the Digg the other day for the WP template hombre.
I don’t own any shares, but I am currently interviewing with them for a software engineering spot (got an email from a google headhunter one day out of the blue). who knows, maybe I’ll go work for them and they can give me some options and then the stock can double :P
I have a friend who bought GOOG for around $300 and then got scared and sold and didn’t make anything off of it. This might have been around the previously mentioned DOJ scare.