What's the best investment you've ever missed out on?

My own company's stock was down to below $5 in 2009....it hit $45 a month or so ago. smh

I talked myself out of putting down about $5K on a company called America Online ... in 1992.

I remember that at the time it seemed very promising but I was too concerned that it might not beat its competitors Compuserve or Prodigy, or that the major players like AT&T might just buy it instead, limiting the upside potential. And I was young so this was a big investment for me.

The amount I'd considered buying wound up being worth well over $1 million at the peak. No telling when I might have actually sold it but the profits would have been very large at any rate.

Wish I would have bought some Sirius when it was done below .15 a share. Today it is at $1.81.

$2,000 @ .15/share = 13,333 shares.

$1.81 @ 13,333 shares = 24,132.00.

I thought the same thing initially but was too lazy to go look up the history.

wrong thread?

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Something like 8 years ago I looked hard at buying Terra Nitrogen stock for $4 and decided the risk of bankruptcy was too great. Those shares would have been worth close to $190 earlier this year. Sigh.

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Yeah they sold off their retail and dedicated soley to nitrogen production right before NG (the main input in nitrogen production) when to $13. Everyone was waiting in line to nail their coffin shut.

Oh and also, fwiw (as suspected): [LINK]


eta: You could've bought the new equity at $15, which is still a handsome 200% return for sure, but its not nearly the 6800% return from the pre-bk equity.

To Jim Rockford,

I did buy around 30K shares of Crystal Oil around 1987. Your numbers are a little off because they went through a 10,000 to 1 reverse stock split which means your 25 cent stock was inflated to $25 over night. I sold several years later and essentially broke even. They were eventually bought out by El Paso Power and Light.

Just thought it might ease your mind a little

Ouch