You see: A Family Now Receives A Windfall From Forgotten SBI Shares Worth ₹500 That Were Bought In 1994.

The discovery made by Motiwala highlighted the long-term value of equity investing.

In his piece, “The Power of Holding Equity,” he emphasized the extraordinary growth potential of long-term investments.

A family’s surprising discovery of long-lost State Bank of India (SBI) shares has gone viral on social media, making for an intriguing tale of investments that are forgotten and then come to light.

A user on platform X named Dr. Tanmay Motiwala told a gripping tale about his grandparents’ ₹500 investment in SBI shares thirty years ago and their current total value.In 1994, my grandparents invested ₹500 in SBI shares. It had slipped their minds.

In fact, they didn’t know why they bought it or even if they still had it,” Motiwala wrote in his widely shared piece.When organizing his family’s assets, he came across these SBI share certificates and claimed to have already sent them for conversion to Demat.

Once unaltered, the initial investment has now grown to a sizeable quantity of lakhs of rupees.He said that the SBI shares were currently valued at ₹3.75 lakh, providing him with 750 times more profits over the course of three decades.“Without dividends, it is around 3.75L. It’s not much, but 750 times over 30 years is a lot. It is indeed large,” he said.The discovery made by Motiwala highlighted the long-term value of equity investing.

“The power of holding equity,” he emphasized in his post, highlighting long-term investments’ exceptional development potential.He also disclosed the difficulties he had when converting the outdated share certificates into a dematerialized (demat) form.

In reality, we enlisted the assistance of a consultant or advisor. Due to the lengthy and agonizing nature of the process itself (spelling mistakes in names, addresses, signatures, etc.), It took some time, even with an advisor, but we succeeded in completing the majority of certificates,” Motiwala stated.

In the last year, the price of SBI’s shares has increased by over 44%, and over 104% in the last three years.SBI shares were trading at ₹758.20 a share on the BSE at the end of the business day on April 1.