Daily Finance: Why MicroSoft Will Never Be Great Again

[disolitude]

theprof00 said:

disolitude said:

Lets look at 10 year history -  http://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MSFT

The way I am inerpreting this is if you wanted to buy a MS share in 2001, you would have had to pay 27 dollars no? Then in 2003 your shares doubled due to 2:1 split. Today your share is worth 27 dollars, except you have twice as many...

Are you saying that the 27 dollars per share in 2001 is already adjusted down for the splits that happened? I really doubt this is how they would keep track of historical share prices... but if there is evidence to prove this, I will not argue.

Jesus Christ dude, NO.

That is how they track historical pricing. Look up "split-adjusted". That is why at the bottom of the reports you're looking at, it says "split-adjusted".

If you KNEW what you were talking about, there wouldn't be a problem, but you don't so stop trying to correct people.

Fair enough...sorry.