Trade Desk Inc (NASDAQ: TTD) is known for helping businesses optimize their digital advertising, and over the past 5 years, has also helped investors achieve eye-popping returns.
Since May 2017, The Trade Desk stock’s 5-year return has outperformed several of the world’s most popular tech and consumer discretionary stocks: Ford Motor Company (NYSE: NYSE:F), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:MSFT), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL), Walt Disney Co (NYSE: NYSE:DIS), Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NFLX) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: 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 Trade Desk also provides data and other value-added services, as well as platform features. The Trade Desk was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Ventura, California.
Here's how the returns break down from May 2017 to present:
- Ford is up from $11.35 to $13.76 for a return of 21.28%
- Microsoft is up from $71.76 to $273.29 for a return of 280.84%
- Apple is up from $38.86 to $150.14 for a return of 286.36%
- Disney is up from $107.18 to $109.87 for a return of 2.51%
- Netflix is up from $165.18 to $198.54 for a return of 183.23%
- Amazon is up from $1,006.73 to $2,377.04 for a return of 136.11%
- And finally, The Trade Desk is up from $5.70 to $51.79 for a return of 808.60%
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