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 69.14%, 114.55% and 55.81% 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 May 2017: According to data from Benzinga Pro, here’s how much $100 in each of the following stocks and cryptocurrencies bought back in spring 2017 would be worth today:
- GameStop Corp . (NYSE: NYSE:GME): $551.39
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AMD): $951.93
- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NVDA): $526.29
- Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA): $1,125.99
- Apple Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL): $382.53
- Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ: PLUG): $978.76
- Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE): $2,643.94
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