What if you put the money for a six-pack of beer a week into AB InBev stock instead?
10 years of six-packs cost $3,738. The same money in AB InBev stock, bought each month, is worth $4,695 today (1.3x). Six-packs and the other what if I had invested questions are on one page, each with what the money is worth today.
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Six 12 oz cans: 4.5 times the BLS US average price of beer per 16 oz in each month (series APU0000720111). AB InBev brews Budweiser. Starts October 2009, after its shares began trading in New York on 16 Sep 2009.
Price only, split-adjusted. Hindsight, not advice.
Price history built 27 Sep 2026.
Sources: data.bls.gov