If You Invested $10,000 in Chesapeake Energy’s IPO, This Is How Much Money You’d Have Now

As investors, we love to ponder "what if" scenarios. We often think about how rich we'd be if we had bought that hot tech stock at its IPO or didn't sell a big winner too soon. However, some decisions that we didn't make turn out to be blessings in disguise.

That's certainly the case for those who failed to buy oil and gas producer Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) at its IPO in 1993. That's because early investors in that energy stock would have a whole lot less money today if they had made a big bet when it debuted.

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