What if I had invested? › Sherwin-Williams
$1,000 in Sherwin-Williams in 2005
$1,000 put into Sherwin-Williams (SHW) on January 3, 2005, its first trading day of 2005 in our data, was worth $29,212 on September 23, 2026, with dividends counted to the end of 2024. Over the same days to July 31, 2026, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $9,692.
Bought at the close on January 3, 2005, dividends put back in, no costs and no tax. Dividends are counted to the end of 2024; from 2025 on our prices are adjusted for splits only, so dividends paid since then are left out. The stock figure counts dividends; the S&P 500 index figure does not, so compare the stock with the whole-market figure. The market figure is the Fama-French US market return (Kenneth R. French data library), which runs to July 31, 2026. Our stock prices run to September 23, 2026.
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Also in 2005
- Nvidia · $1,000 became $1,251,234
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $353,523
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $26,972
- Amazon · $1,000 became $111,977
- Alphabet Inc. (Class A) · $1,000 became $66,800
- Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock · $1,000 became $66,269
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $91,261
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $37,337
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.