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Here’s what Forrest Gump’s Apple stock would be worth today

Life might be like a box of chocolates, but Forrest Gump could've bought an awful lot of chocolates if he'd kept his Apple stock after all these years

Fans of Forrest Gump will recall that his business partner and friend Lieutenant Dan invested some of the profits from their shrimp company into “some kind of fruit company.”

As any movie buff worth their weight in trivia will know, that fruit company was none other than Apple, and UK site FancyDressCostumes has whipped out its calculator to work out roughly what the two shrimp tycoons’ Apple shares would be worth, had they kept them all these years.

The answer? A Whopping US$6,980,702,880, or just under four and a half billion pounds, assuming that the pair initially invested US$100,000 back in the fictional world of 1975.

Who cares if Apple wasn’t publicly trading in real life until December 1980? Let’s not ruin let realism ruin the fun.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to the labs to tinker with our time machine. We’ve got a space flight to buy with our Apple share winnings.

[FancyDressCostumes via MacWorld]

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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