Originally Posted by
Silverlight
Pretty impossible to answer, although the registry would know, however there were just over 5,000 shareholders in the IPO and today there are over 11,000, so you could conclude that many who had bought in the IPO still hold today.
Many bought as well, looking at the figures just has many bought and sold in the 3 years after the glitch as the price moved from $1 up to $4
Year Volume
1996 84,382,022
1997 78,140,288
1998 77,279,538
1999 77,073,838
And equally just as many people sold, however to quantify with figures, volumes were only 30% greater than in the 90's, except 2006, which is the outlier.
Year Volume
2003 112,031,464
2004 110,333,844
2005 116,917,686
2006 165,292,951
2007 100,008,664