I have stock in BP Amaco, it's been doing well. I remember when it split when they merged with BP (british pertrolium) and while I had over a thousand shares the value went down. Now they have gone up quite a bit. I've bought 3 cars by selling a few shares. When I bought my Accord I walked in and gave the dealer $20k in cash, it was cool. I've put the rest of my future dividens into an IRA and they have estemated that I sould have over 1mil. by the time I'm 45 or so.