Amazon . Toast up 5000 percent since IPO (Chart)

Amazon (AMZN), Ten Year Chart, Monthly.

In May, 1997 Amazon (AMZN) was labeled Amazon.toast and Amazon.bomb by Forrester Research and Barron's. Since then it has risen more than 5,000 percent.

Highlights:

• Amazon was founded in 1994, and went public in 1997.
  
• In 1997, Amazon was labeled Amazon.toast and Amazon.bomb by Forrester Research and Barron's.
• By 1999, cumulative losses at Amazon exceeded $550 million.
  
• In December, 1999, Jeff Bezos was chosen as Time magazine's person of the year (see Cover).
• In December 1999, Amazon reached its highest raw price in history at $113 a share.
  
• In the summer of 2000, an analyst at Lehman Brothers warned investors that the company might run out of cash and advised them to avoid its stock.
• In September 2001, Amazon dropped to its lowest raw price in history--$5.67 a share.
• In October, 2007 Amazon traded over $100 a share for the third time, and the first time since 1999.
• The split adjusted price of Amazon dating back to 1997 is $1.31 a share.
  
• On March 23, 2009 Amazon closed at $75.61 a share, its highest price since falling to $34.68 a share in November, 2008.
• Amazon is currently up more than 50 times its adjusted initial public offering price, or 5,700 percent.

A month after Jeff Bezos' was named Time's person of the year, the company fired 150 workers as part of an internal reorganization. Just five days later, Amazon reported a loss of $323 million for the holiday fourth quarter and promised that future losses would be lower. (The company, however, would later exceed that amount by more than $200 million).

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GoldCorp (GG) Twelve Times Your Money in Ten Years (Chart)

Gold Corp (GG), Ten Year Chart, Monthly (not dividend adjusted).

You don't hear much about Gold Corp (GG). The gold stock has risen from the $2.50 area in 1999 to a high of $52.65 during July, 2008 (prices are adjusted for stock splits).

The stock closed Friday at $33.76. GoldCorp dropped to a low in the $14.00 area in October, 2008 and is now moving up again.

If you had invested $10,000 in GoldCorp in 1999, it would now be worth more than $125,000. This does not include adjustments for dividends. 12.5 times your money in ten years, not bad.

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I ran across this interesting article. It includes the 50 best performing stocks from 1932 to 1954 by cumulative total return. Lately, I find myself thinking we are near one of the greatest investing opportunities of a lifetime. There is little doubt in my mind that once the market capitulates there will be some stocks you can buy, own them for twenty years, and make a future. I am also thinking hard about which international stocks will be big winners of the future. China?

I also want to remind people that the final big lows in the depression market were not made in 1929 but in 1932. The Dow did not regain its pre-crash level until 1954. Same story in the period from 1966-1982. Does this mean we are in for 20 years of sideways action in the market?

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