Tech-titan Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has executed nine stock splits over its long history. Let's say you bought one share between the initial public offering (IPO) in 1986 and the first split in 1987. It would have multiplied into 288 stubs after all the splits. A $1,000 Microsoft investment on the day of that first stock split would be worth $1.05 million today:

MSFT data by YCharts.

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