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Bank sells Coca-Cola stock for 1,999,990% profit
SunTrust Banks is selling a stake in the beverage maker for nearly $2 billion, a stake that has risen in value from $100,000 over the last 93 years.
A predecessor of SunTrust took shares in Coca-Cola in return for helping the company execute its initial public offering in 1919, and the bank held onto the shares through the years, collecting dividends all the while and until recently housing the secret formula for the trademark soft drink in one of its vaults.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/09/07/suntrust-dumps-93-year-old-stake-in-coca-cola-collects-a-tidy-two-million-percent-return/
(Source: this-misha-defies-imagination)
