If You’d Invested $10,000 in Applied Digital (APLD) Stock 3 Years Ago, Here’s How Much You
October 5, 2025
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You’d be sitting on a 1,345% gain!
So back in early October of 2022, you plunked $10,000 into shares of Applied Digital (APLD 0.21%). What’s that worth now? Let’s take a look.
That $10,000 investment would have become a stake worth around $144,500! That means your money would have grown at an average annual rate of 144%, which is quite impressive. In contrast, the S&P 500 index, which includes 500 of America’s biggest companies, averaged gains of 24% during the same period — enough to turn $10,000 into $19,000. That’s still very respectable, of course, as the S&P 500’s long-term average is closer to 10%.
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It has actually shifted its focus over the years. Its former names offer some clues. It began as Applied Science Products in 2021 and changed its name to Applied Blockchain in 2021, before taking on Applied Digital in 2022. It boasts that it has been named “Best Data Center in the Americas 2025” by Datacloud and notes that it “designs, builds, and operates high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads.”
You now have an idea of why Applied Digital would have boosted your net worth by so much. It’s building data centers, which have become critical, thanks to the growing use of AI. Data center demand is huge and growing, boding well for Applied Digital’s future.
The stock has been volatile, so make sure you can handle that if you’re interested in investing. And certainly learn a lot more about it before you do, too.
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Selena Maranjian is a contributing personal finance and investing expert at The Motley Fool. Selena has produced The Motley Fool’s nationally syndicated newspaper feature since 1997. She is the author of The Motley Fool Money Guide and Investment Clubs: How to Start and Run One the Motley Fool Way, and the co-author of The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens and several editions of The Motley Fool Investment Tax Guide. Prior to The Motley Fool, she worked as a high school teacher and public opinion analyst. She holds a master’s degree in teaching from Brown University and a master’s degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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