Benzinga - Trade Desk Inc (NASDAQ: TTD) is known for helping businesses optimize their digital advertising, and over the past five years, has also helped investors achieve eye-popping returns.
Since March 2018, The Trade Desk stock’s five-year return has outperformed several of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies, tech and consumer discretionary stocks: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).
The Trade Desk operates a self-service cloud-based platform that allows buyers to create, manage and optimize data-driven digital advertising campaigns in various ad formats and channels, including display, video, audio, in-app, native and social.
The Ventura, California-based company also provides data and other value-added services, as well as platform features.
Here's how the returns break down from March 2018 to the present:
- Ford is up from $10.40 to $12.32 for a return of 18.46%
- Bitcoin is up from $8,795.44 to $23,507.10 for a return of 167.26%
- Tesla is up from $22.34 to $191.30 for a return of 756.31%
- Starbucks is up from $56.93 to $101.43 for a return of 78.17%
- Microsoft is up from $93.05 to $246.27 for a return of 164.66%
- Apple is up from $44.05 to $145.31 for a return of 229.88%
- Disney is down from $102.99 to $98.54 for a return of -4.32%
- Amazon is up from $75.01 to $92.17 for a return of 22.88%
- And finally, The Trade Desk is up from $5.69 to $55.41 for a return of 873.81%