If You Invested $500 or More in Amazon Stock at the Beginning of 2025, Here’s How Much You

January 14, 2026

Vance Cariaga

3 min read

If you bought Amazon (AMZN) stock at the beginning of 2025 hoping for a massive one-year return, you’re probably disappointed.

According to The Motley Fool, Amazon shares rose only by about 5.2% in 2025. That’s not much more than what you would have earned from the best high-yield savings accounts. Over the same time frame, the S&P 500 rose by about 18%, while the Nasdaq was up roughly 20%.

How much money would you have if you invested $500 or more in Amazon at the beginning of 2025? Keep reading to find out.

Also see what a $500 investment in Amazon’s initial public offering would be worth now.

Because the stock markets were closed on New Year’s Day in 2025, the first day of trading was Jan. 2. Amazon’s stock opened the year at $222.03 a share.

Here’s how much money you’d have now, based on different investment amounts.

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Here’s a look at how much a $500 investment in Amazon stock would be worth now.

Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $222.03
Number of shares with $500 investment: 2.25
Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $247.38
Current value: $565.61

If an investor had put $1,000 into Amazon in the beginning of 2025, this is what their return would have looked like.

Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $222.03
Number of shares with $1,000 investment: 4.5
Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $247.38
Current value: $1,113.21

As for a $2,000 investment, here’s what investors would have seen.

Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $222.03
Number of shares with $2,000 investment: 9
Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $247.38
Current value: $2,226.42

Moving on to a $5,000 investment, here are the returns investors could’ve seen.

Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $222.03
Number of shares with $5,000 investment: 22.5
Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $247.38
Current value: $5,566.05

Finally, a $10,000 investment into Amazon stock at the beginning of 2025 would’ve looked like this.

Opening price Jan. 2, 2025: $222.03
Number of shares with $10,000 investment: 45
Closing price Jan. 9, 2026: $247.38
Current value: $11,132.10

As the above numbers show, you wouldn’t have made a ton of money off your Amazon stock purchase even if you had invested $10,000 at the beginning of 2025.

That stands in stark contrast to the company’s longer-term performance. Over the past three years, Amazon’s stock price has soared by over 150%.

So why did growth slow to a crawl in 2025? One reason is that Amazon “could be slated to underperform the market” after three years of robust gains, The Motley Fool reported.

A lot depends on how Amazon’s advertising and Amazon Web Services (AWS) businesses perform. These are growing much faster than the core online retail business and should continue to “increase rapidly over the next few years,” The Motley Fool noted.

On the downside, Amazon faces “massive” capital expenditures as it aims to increase its artificial intelligence computing capacity. These costs are “absorbing almost all of its cash flows,” according to The Motley Fool, which worries investors and weighs on its stock price.

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