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>GOOG is around the same price as it was in 2022

Even after the massive total market correction in the last few weeks, the earliest that GOOG was the same price as today is not even a full year ago. In fact, it's up 90% since 2022.




What?

Any stock market source would tell you GOOG was ~140 USD at the start of 2022. Today it is ~170 USD. A 20% increase over three years, about the same rate as inflation and S&P.

This is extremely trivial to verify. Was this written by a GPT bot?


This really depends on which day of 2022 you start the calculation. But to be fair, you can claim the same for AAPL (+25%)/MSFT (+22%)/AMZN (+22%)/...

It's just the up and down of the entire market (and these big techs dominate S&P 500). I don't think that actually indicates anything.


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My friend why so irritated... I was just explaining why you two got different numbers. And my numbers of other companies are also calculated from the start of 2022.

I guess my broken English doesn't match today's bot quality :)


> But I did specify "start of 2022".

Your initial comment didn't:

> > GOOG is around the same price as it was in 2022

That's the comment pb7 replied to by saying it's up 90% since 2022 (which is true, or even an underestimate, depending on where you measure from) and to which you responded calling them a bot because your own measurement, from the start of the year, gives a lower number.

cvhc is pointing out that it's the different choice of where to measure from that caused the difference in results - neither are incorrect.


Yeah, whatever.

I replied to @cvhc.




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