Few people will remember that in the movie Forrest Gump The protagonist is made up of a piece of fruit company. That fruit company was no other Apple, as can be seen in the picture from the movie. If we follow the path that began in this belief, today Forrest Gump would be Apple's biggest investor.
Forrest Gump, thanks to potential billionaires at Apple
(Lieutenant Dan) Yes, he took care of Bubba-Gump's money. He put it in the form of a fruit company. He immediately phoned me and told me that we were not going to worry about money anymore. And I said, that sounds good, one little bit.
As you can see in the video, that "fruit company" is Apple. You can see its colorful logo on the head of a book by Forrest Gump, and the name "Apple Computer Inc.". This data gives us an overview of the time period in which money is being made. The company was founded in 1976 under the name Apple Computer Company. A year later the name was changed to Apple Computer Inc. It retained the name until 2006, when Apple Inc. it was renamed.
As stated in the film, Apple's investment must have taken place after the name change was January 3, 1977 once before its IPO on December 12, 1980. Finding a percentage of Apple's investments isn't easy, but in Quora they say the following:
- Mike Markkula originally set about $ 92,000 as a public dollar.
- In the first foreign competition, they collected $ 15,000 of a 15% company in 1978.
- Shortly thereafter, another 7 million foreigners were planted.
Some media estimates Lieutenant Dan's investment of $ 100,000 in that first round half a million dollars. That would represent 3% of the company at that time. To perform the calculations, it would include 1,476,460 shares which on the first day of the stock market was $ 43 million.
Assuming the lieutenant he offers does not sell shares and holds until today, those shares would have increased because to pieces done at this time. A separate Simply increase the number of shares and divide their value, ultimately neutral. The to pieces they are designed to make the act more "fluid" and available to smaller investors. According to Stock Split history, Apple made four to pieces in total: the first three go from 2 to 1 and the last from 7 to 1. This translates to 82,681,760 shares.
As of today and priced at $ 266 per share, Forrest Gump shares today They could cost $ 21,199,330,000. By comparison, Warren Buffett has tripled shares with a total value of approximately $ 80 billion. Not at all bad.
