Investors who placed their hard-earned cash into major US indices have enjoyed respectable returns over the past 5 years. Despite two market corrections — the recent market correction partially generated by the Russia-Ukraine war and the stock market crash of 2020, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NASDAQ: SPY (NYSE:SPY)), Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQ) and SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (NASDAQ: NYSE:DIA) have returned 81.82%, 156.72% and 60.87% respectively.
As good as investors in the major U.S. indices have had it over the past five years, a number of the world’s most popular consumer discretionary, tech and clean energy manufacturing stocks have provided even better returns. Bulls that took a chance on these names were rewarded with gains that outperformed much of the broader market.
Winners Since March 2017: Here’s how much $100 in each of the following stocks bought back at the beginning of 2017 would be worth today:
- GameStop Corp . (NYSE: NYSE:GME): $443.45
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AMD): $779.37
- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NVDA): $925.59
- Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:SBUX): $165.10
- Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ: PLUG): $2,184.16
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