Tomorrow I celebrate 3650 days on MUD ...

[a.greenspan]

A rear-view mirror is designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle's rear window .....

....let´s do it.

A young delivery boy ,a 1910

a shoe shine boy ca 1905

a chauffeur in his shine black boots

At that time some license plates are made of leather .
Ohio leather license plate.

History

License plate history that includes old license plates, vintage license plates and antique license plates.

leatherlicenseplates.com

 

[a.greenspan]

A rear-view mirror is designed to allow the driver to see rearward through the vehicle's rear window .....

View attachment 1927110....let´s do it

If you had invested right after Coca-Cola's IPO (KO) 1919
for $40 per share into a single share of Coca-Cola
your investment would be worth $394,352 today 2012.... 2019 a bit more
if you had reinvested dividends, your investment would be worth $9.8 million 2012.... 2019 a bit more
...not bad

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) was purchased for $25 million in 1919 by a team of businessmen led by Ernest Woodruff. Later that year, Coca-Cola made its initial public offering (IPO) for $40 per share. If you had invested $40 into a single share of Coca-Cola in 1919 during the IPO, your investment would be worth $394,352 today. According to a 2012 proxy statement from Coca-Cola, if you had reinvested dividends, your investment would be worth $9.8 million. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.27% from 1919 to 2012. Without dividend reinvestment, your CAGR would be 10.05% from 1919 to 2015.

How Coca-Cola Makes Money

Learn how Coca-Cola makes money with a unique business and distribution model that includes company-owned and franchised bottlers around the globe.

www.investopedia.com

The table below provides details of each of the eleven stock splits conducted in the history of The Coca-Cola Company, including the cumulative number of shares that would be held if one share of stock was purchased when the stock began trading in 1919.

Investor Relations

www.coca-colacompany.com

Don`t throw too much money in toys ........... better invest a bit more.

 

[a.greenspan]

If you had invested right after Coca-Cola's IPO (KO) 1919
for $40 per share into a single share of Coca-Cola
your investment would be worth $394,352 today 2012.... 2019 a bit more
if you had reinvested dividends, your investment would be worth $9.8 million 2012.... 2019 a bit more
...not bad

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) was purchased for $25 million in 1919 by a team of businessmen led by Ernest Woodruff. Later that year, Coca-Cola made its initial public offering (IPO) for $40 per share. If you had invested $40 into a single share of Coca-Cola in 1919 during the IPO, your investment would be worth $394,352 today. According to a 2012 proxy statement from Coca-Cola, if you had reinvested dividends, your investment would be worth $9.8 million. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.27% from 1919 to 2012. Without dividend reinvestment, your CAGR would be 10.05% from 1919 to 2015.

How Coca-Cola Makes Money

Learn how Coca-Cola makes money with a unique business and distribution model that includes company-owned and franchised bottlers around the globe.

www.investopedia.com

The table below provides details of each of the eleven stock splits conducted in the history of The Coca-Cola Company, including the cumulative number of shares that would be held if one share of stock was purchased when the stock began trading in 1919.

Investor Relations

www.coca-colacompany.com

Don`t throw too much money in toys ........... better invest a bit more.

Ladies and Gentlemen .....

.... I know you like numbers.

Reinvesting dividends vs. not reinvesting dividends-
A 50-Year case study of Coca-Cola Stocks.
1962- 2012 .... interesting indeed

https://www.joshuakennon.com/reinvesting-dividends-versus-not-reinvesting-dividends-coca- cola/

Don`t throw too much money in toys ........... better invest a bit more.

Rule No. 1 : Spend less than you earn.
Rule No. 2 : Don`t forget Rule No. 1

 

[Bear]

Okay, I'll bite.

The graphic is compelling, and greed can be most inspiring.

However after the first twelve years your investor has lost money.
And thru to the mid-eighties not such a spectacular increase.

Guessing when to jump from an investment is critical; investing is always gambling, nothing guaranteed.

From many years prior, back to the early days of Coca Cola, it seemed a growing successful company, with slow but steady expansion.

Today, however, with the understanding of the damage caused by too many sugary drinks, I would not predict the phenomenal rise of Coke, Pepsi, or others, despite their diversification. Their growth has slowed, and only developing third world countries see any rise.

I would counter that investing in something rare-- of a limited number-- would be a wiser choice than a consumer good. So............buying an early Land Cruiser(or an early Ferrari, Lambo, etc.) while it may not see such a dramatic rise in value, it affords the investor a usable benefit. Prognosticators in the long term will see a decline in automobiles as we know them, but then perhaps the collectability of a long-forgotten mode of transportation will be viewed as historic, charming, retro, who knows what.

All in good jest. Just bringing this thread back to automotiveness !

 

[a.greenspan]

This thread began with Coca Cola and Coca Cola was only an example for the power of compounding in the long term.
What do you need every day consumer goods not a car or a truck.
In the stock markets everybody can invest, can begin to invest with little money when young during education . Buy more when earning more, raise the invest step by step or buy more when the markets tumbled.
You can sell in a second parts of it... try to do it with a car or a truck or a house when you need some money.
There is no guarantee that you get your money back with a win tomorrow !
If you buy a new daily driver today a day later you have lost a lot $ and a year later more ......
Old cars are a hobby not an invest.
When the markets tumble the vintage cars & trucks tumble too .
In the late 80s some payed for a Ferrari or a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing over one million. Two or three years later you could buy the cars at the half price.

I´m in this business since more than 35 years and know what gambling is and what not.
I have learned stock picking and know the risks. Sometimes I raise my cash quote and wait and wait and wait. Watch and study companies (research) since I´m in the business and wait sometimes years before investing if I think they are overvalued.
Visited Las Vegas twice and was one of the very, very rare individuals that never gambled.
If you run a company your company can go bankrupt that´s business.
Today you can invest in ETFs the S&P 500 for example.
ETFs minimize your risk in the S&P are listed 500 companies in the Nasdaq more than 3,300 companies ( just an example)
You can invest in all global markets.
The first ETF in the United States was launched in 1993 ( in Europe later) In their early days, ETFs were used primarily by institutional investors to execute sophisticated trading strategies. Soon afterward, individual investors and financial advisors embraced ETFs.

Investments | Insights | Vanguard Advisors

I have shown a lot different european automobiles you have never seen before in the US.
By the way I have never seen a ´picture of your LC or LCs
You are free to do it or not & I´m free to write what I want!

 

[Bear]

Ouch !!......."All in good jest. Just bringing this thread back to automotiveness !"

 

[Living in the Past]

I´m free to write what I want!

That is a debating point on a privately owned forum. This is the 45 tech section. A report to moderators and even thought you started the thread could end up in chat for straying away from 45 tech. Seen it happen many times in the 40/55 section that barely wondered off subject. I think Bear was just nicely trying to point this out.

 

[a.greenspan]

Report it and or delete the thread.
I made some useful education for everyone, the education more for the younger generation....
and a bit entertainment out of the Land Cruiser box...that`s all .
I`m free
Wanted to bring some Red FJ45 can museum pictures to Mud before the end of the month.... now I don´t.
I´have never seen a pic from Bear´s LC don`t know if he owns one. .... pics or it didn`t happen .
Stay in your LC box guys.

All companies have to create new products to survive Coca Cola (less sugar for example) too and they do it.....
....companies are always on the move.
That´s why capitalism is successful not socialism .... the end.