Online services giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has made plenty of millionaires over the years. You'd have more than a million dollars in the Google parent's stock today if you invested just $15,000 when it entered the public stock market in 2004. If you put the same cash to work in a broad market tracker like the SPDR S 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) instead, you'd have a total return of just $105,000:

GOOGL Total Return Level data by YCharts

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