Back to top

Image: Bigstock

If You Invested $1000 in Jabil a Decade Ago, This is How Much It'd Be Worth Now

Read MoreHide Full Article

For most investors, how much a stock's price changes over time is important. This factor can impact your investment portfolio as well as help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, also plays a role in investing, particularly with tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks.

What if you'd invested in Jabil (JBL - Free Report) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to JBL for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?

Jabil's Business In-Depth

With that in mind, let's take a look at Jabil's main business drivers.

Headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL, Jabil, Inc. is one of the largest global suppliers of electronic manufacturing services. The company offers electronics design, production, product management and after-market services to customers in the aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer, defense, industrial, instrumentation, medical, networking, peripherals, storage and telecommunications industries.

The company reported revenues of $29.8 billion in fiscal 2025.

Jabil has reorganized its internal structure, and beginning fiscal 2025, the company is set to report its quarterly numbers under three reporting segments: Regulated Industries, Intelligent Infrastructure, Connected Living & Digital Commerce.

Regulated Industries (39.9% of fiscal 2025 net sales): The segment primarily focuses on developing high-quality manufacturing products for automotive & transportation, renewables & energy infrastructure, and healthcare end markets.
 
Intelligent Infrastructure (41.3%): The segment’s portfolio includes products related to capital equipment, networking & communications, and cloud & data center infrastructure end markets.

Connected Living & Digital Commerce (18.8%): The segment offerings include various consumer-facing products under the connected living end market and retail & warehouse automation products in the digital commerce end market.

The company’s largest customers are Apple, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Company, Keysight Technologies, LM Ericsson, NetApp, Nokia Networks, SolarEdge Technologies, Valeo S.A. and Zebra Technologies.

Jabil faces significant competition from the likes of Benchmark Electronics, Celestica, Flex, Hon-Hai Precision Industry, Plexus and Sanmina.

Bottom Line

Anyone can invest, but building a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of a few things: research, patience, and a little bit of risk. So, if you had invested in Jabil a decade ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.

According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in June 2016 would be worth $19,995.21, or a gain of 1,899.52%, as of June 17, 2026, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.

Compare this to the S&P 500's rally of 261.47% and gold's return of 220.80% over the same time frame.

Going forward, analysts are expecting more upside for JBL.

Jabil is benefiting from strength in AI data center infrastructure, capital equipment and warehouse automation markets. Its focus on end-market and product diversification is a key catalyst. Its global factory network, AI and ML integration, and disciplined working capital management drive growth, productivity, and scalability. A higher free cash flow reflects strong cash generation, effective asset utilization, healthy business performance, and solid financial strength. However, it is exposed to significant customer-concentration risk. Fierce competition in the electronic manufacturing services industry is weighing on margins. Many of JBL's current and potential customers are assessing the merits of in-house manufacturing against the advantages of outsourcing. This trend is a major concern, as it can significantly affect revenues.

Shares have gained 12.81% over the past four weeks and there have been 3 higher earnings estimate revisions for fiscal 2026 compared to none lower. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.

Published in