Another comment on stock growth

From: Marshall Burns <ListMail2_at_fabbers.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:49:14 -0700

I've found it interesting to compare the growth of the 3D printer stocks
with that of other wildly successful companies, and to watch the public
perception of this. Google had a large surge in stock price yesterday. This
prompted the New York Times to comment [1]:

 

"The jump brought its gain since its initial offering to roughly 1,100
percent. During the same period, the shares of Amazon.com rose 830 percent.
Samsung, which makes smartphones as well as the chips that go into many
other manufacturers' devices, rose 760 percent. And Apple leapt a staggering
3,300 percent."

 

Neither the article nor the comments mentioned the two primary 3D printer
stocks. But a check of data shows that those companies firmly belong in the
stratospheric domain of the companies mentioned. In particular, the price
growth of 3D Systems has been far greater than that of Google. (Note that
the Times data are incorrect, especially for Samsung.)

 


Symbol

Company

2004 08 19 Open

2013 10 19 Close

Growth, %


PCLN

Priceline

20.34

1,048.25

5,154


AAPL

Apple

15.76

508.89

3,230


NFLX

Netflix

15.92

333.50

2,095


DDD

3D Systems

3.92

56.77

1,449


SSNLF

Samsung

121.32

1,450.00

1,195


GOOG

Google *

85.00

1,011.41

1,190


WDC

Western Digital

7.06

71.76

1,016


SSYS

Stratasys

12.87

110.85

861


AMZN

Amazon

40.34

328.93

815

 

Source: www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ <symbol> /interactive-chart,

                e.g., www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ddd/interactive-chart

using "OHLC" setting, which shows the opening price for each date

* Exception: Google price for 2004 08 19 is the IPO offering price.

 

[1]
www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/technology/google-stock-scales-1000-a-share.html

 
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