# Rs 8.5 lakh Apple bet 10 years ago would be worth Rs 1.07 crore today 2026-08-09T13:54:45+00:00 | Business & Economy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A $10,000 (Rs 8.5 lakh) investment in Apple stock made in August 2016 would be worth about $126,000 (Rs 1.07 crore) today, according to The Motley Fool. Apple shares traded at around $27 in August 2016, adjusted for its 2020 stock split, and now trade at about $311, an 11.5-fold increase. Reinvested dividends pushed the total return slightly higher. The outsized return was driven by a roughly fourfold increase in Apple's earnings per share to $8.72 and a near-tripling of its price-to-earnings multiple from 13 to 36. Apple's share count also shrank from nearly 22 billion to 14.6 billion via buybacks. The Motley Fool cautions that another tripling of the P/E multiple is unrealistic, so future returns will depend on business growth rather than valuation expansion. ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com Tags: Apple, earnings growth, investment returns, stock market, The Motley Fool, valuation Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rs-8-5-lakh-apple-bet-10-years-ago-would-be-worth-rs-1-07-crore-today/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rs-8-5-lakh-apple-bet-10-years-ago-would-be-worth-rs-1-07-crore-today/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.