If You Invested $500 or More in Apple Stock at the Beginning of 2025, Here’s How Much You’d Have Now
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If you bought shares of Apple (AAPL) at the beginning of 2025, there’s both good and bad news. The good news is your investment turned a profit. The bad news is you would have turned a bigger profit by simply investing in an S&P 500 fund.
According to Barron’s, Apple’s stock returned almost 12% in 2025, which was below the S&P 500’s return for the year. What that shows is that while investors still have a fairly positive view of Apple, it hasn’t been an elite performer on Wall Street.
How much would your investment be worth if you had bought Apple stock on the first day of trading in 2025?
How Much You’d Have Now
Because the stock markets were closed on New Year’s Day in 2025, the first day of trading was Jan. 2. Apple’s stock opened the year at $248.93 a share. Here’s how much money you’d have now, based on different investment amounts. The following values reflect stock performance only and do not include dividends paid by Apple.
$500 Investment
Here’s a look at what an investment of $500 would look like now.
- Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $248.93
- Number of shares with $500 investment: 2
- Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $259.37
- Current value: $518.74
$1,000 Investment
If an investor put $1,000 into Apple at the beginning of 2025, here’s what they’d have now.
- Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $248.93
- Number of shares with $1,000 investment: 4
- Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $259.37
- Current value: $1,037.48
$2,000 Investment
Doubling the investment to $2,000, here’s how much an investor would have.
- Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $248.93
- Number of shares with $2,000 investment: 8
- Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $259.37
- Current value: $2,074.96
$5,000 Investment
The following is what an investment of $5,000 at the beginning of 2025 would look now.
- Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $248.93
- Number of shares with $5,000 investment: 20
- Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $259.37
- Current value: $5,187.40
$10,000 Investment
Finally, here’s a look at what a whopping $10,000 investment in Apple would look like in 2026.
- Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $248.93
- Number of shares with $10,000 investment: 40
- Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $259.37
- Current value: $10,374.80
What’s Driving the Stock Price?
Although Apple’s stock performance lagged many of its Big Tech peers and the markets in general in 2025, that doesn’t mean it has been a bad investment. After all, the company’s share price touched an all-time high on Dec. 2 before trending lower the rest of the month.
Prior to that dip, there was speculation that Apple’s stock could hit $300 a share before the end of 2025. But the company will have to wait to see if it can reach that milestone in 2026.
For now, Apple has benefited from a bullish stock market driven by heavy investment in artificial intelligence (AI), though it hasn’t seen the kind of robust gains enjoyed by other “Magnificent 7” tech stocks like Alphabet (GOOG) and Nvidia (NVDA).
As previously reported by GOBankingRates, one concern among experts is that so much of Apple’s growth is tied to the iPhone. The company also has less potential upside from AI than other tech heavyweights.
“Apple is an incredible company, but so much of its story is still tied to the iPhone,” Edward Corona, founder of The Options Oracle AI Trade Manager, told GOBankingRates. “That’s great for steady cash flow, but it makes it harder for Apple to find the next big growth engine.”
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