3 Stocks With Microsoft-like Return Potential

3 Stocks With Microsoft-like Return Potential

From a split-adjusted stock price near $0.10 per share in the mid-1980s to its dot.com peak north of $58 a share at the end of the millennium, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock enjoyed a run for the ages. It was a run probably no other stock will ever duplicate in such a short timespan. (Unless the stock names itself "bitcoin.bitcoin.com" and wrangles the ticker symbol "COIN," that is -- and even then, only maybe.)

Simply put, investors looking to invest in "the next Microsoft" are probably on a fool's errand. Then again, here at The Motley Fool that's kind of what we do. Without further ado, here are a few stocks our Foolish investors think have the potential to produce Microsoft-like returns: Raven Industries (NASDAQ: RAVN), Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: GERN), and ... I don't want to ruin the surprise for you on the last one.

Microsoft shareholders caught lightning in a bottle in the 1980s. Can lightning strike more than once? Image source: Getty Images.

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