You can't just look at the stock price. INTC has split and had dividends since 1998.
If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.
If you bought $10,000 of INTC in Sept 19th, 1998 and held it to today the stock would be worth $17,000 and you would've collected almost $12,000 in dividends.
Is pretty good.
That's still crap. The only way you'd be in decent shape is if you took the dividends and invested those in any of INTC's competitors.