NFL star Rob Gronkowski wanted to 'go big' with his first investment at age 25: Now his Apple stock is worth more than $600,000

Rob Gronkowski has 4 Super Bowl rings to his name, but 1 of his biggest wins came disconnected the field.

In an interrogation with Fortune this week, Gronkowski revealed that helium benefitted from a portion of investing proposal that helped him marque hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As a 25-year-old successful 2014, the Patriots choky extremity had precise small acquisition investing. But erstwhile the contractor who was gathering his location successful Foxborough, Mass. urged him to put successful Apple, Gronkowski decided to springiness it a shot.

"I'd ne'er been progressive successful stocks. I truly didn't cognize however stocks worked," helium said. "So I was like, 'Alright, fto maine bash this. I'm going to spell big.'"

Gronkowski, who done the 2014 play had earned a small implicit $16 million from the NFL, called up his fiscal advisor and directed them to acquisition $69,000 worthy of shares of the iPhone maker.

The five-time Pro Bowler said that helium promptly forgot astir his acquisition until 2 and a fractional years later, erstwhile helium realized that his concern had grown to beryllium worthy astir $250,000. At that point, Gronkowski cashed retired his archetypal $69,000 concern and near the remainder to grow.

"To this date, I person implicit $600,000 of Apple stock, each due to the fact that of the concern I made successful 2014, having nary thought what I was doing but conscionable listening to the antheral who built my location present successful New England," helium said.

While his Apple concern paid disconnected handsomely — the company's banal is up much than 1,000% since 2014 — Gronkowski didn't request the fiscal assist. The Super Bowl champion famously refused to walk his NFL paychecks, choosing alternatively to unrecorded disconnected of his endorsement money.

In a 2020 interrogation with CNBC Make It, helium said helium ever wanted to beryllium prepared financially for the time the shot paychecks stopped coming in.

"The full constituent of redeeming passim my NFL vocation was to beryllium acceptable for aft shot due to the fact that you don't cognize however agelong shot volition last," he said astatine the time.

The fiscal subject has allowed him to bask his sporting status without having to interest astir continuing to marque money.

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