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 53.86%, 99.70% and 42.38% 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 June 2017: According to data from Benzinga Pro, here’s how much $100 in each of the following stocks and cryptocurrencies bought back in summer 2017 would be worth today:
- GameStop Corp . (NYSE: NYSE:GME): $609.08
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AMD): $759.88
- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NVDA): $418.04
- Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA): $897.72
- Apple Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL): $373.77
- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:MSFT): $348.41
- Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AMZN): $208.35
- Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ: PLUG): $639.24
- Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC): $870.34
- Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH): $347.58
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