If You Invested $10,000 in Apple When Tim Cook Took Over, Here's What It's Worth Now

The article is a bullish retrospective on Apple’s performance under Tim Cook, emphasizing how a $10,000 investment made when he became CEO would now be worth about $280,816, far outperforming the S&P 500 over the same period. It highlights Apple’s transformation into a trillion-dollar-plus cash-generating machine powered by the iPhone, Services growth, and large-scale buybacks, as well as recent revenue strength and an installed base above 2.5 billion devices. The piece is cautiously constructive on the stock today: Apple remains a great business with strong profitability and a new Broadcom chip agreement that may reduce supply risk, but the shares are described as expensive on valuation and exposed to risks from AI competition, legal/regulatory pressure in Europe, and leadership succession uncertainty.