Living Out Of Debt

Google stock price started out at an initial public offering of just $85 per share in August of 2004. At the time analysts debated whether or not the company was worth it.

That time the market was not ready to the idea that online companies could be very valuable. Google’s value was intellectual property instead of real property.

Well in hindsight there was certainly no reason for debate as five years later, the Google stock price is five times its initial value and the company as a whole has a market value of $175 billion dollars.

The initial climb was the most impressive as the google stock price rose to over $100 in the first day, and then doubled within the next three months.

Analysts still debate the value of the company but it is more a matter of how much more it will grow and how quickly.

Obviously the early growth was unrealistic and unsustainable, but over the past few years the company has settled into a more traditional growth pattern with exception of the recession which has been detrimental to the entire tech sector and the entire marketplace.

No stock comes with a guarantee, but investors have shown that they are confident that Google is a solid, reliable company that is not likely to significantly lose value, at least not relative to the market as a whole.

The up to date Google stock price can be found at any time by searching using the company’s exchange symbol “GOOG.”

Note that Google has two types of stocks that are Common and Preferred. Usually Preferred stock prices are higher since the holders are paid dividends before they are distributed to all the common stock holders. However, both of them have voting rights.