HISTORICAL RANKINGS
The last 10 years.
2016-10 to 2026-10. $1,000 invested, dividends reinvested. Only assets with full history and a matching endpoint.
A curated universe, not the entire market. Surviving assets only; delisted companies are absent. These rankings are not investment recommendations.
| Rank | Asset | Type | Total return | Value of $1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA (NVDA) | STOCK | 11,984.15% | $120,841.53 |
| 2 | Bitcoin (BTC) | CRYPTO | 11,377.56% | $114,775.59 |
| 3 | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) | STOCK | 7,047.86% | $71,478.56 |
| 4 | Micron (MU) | STOCK | 5,145.14% | $52,451.40 |
| 5 | Shopify (SHOP) | STOCK | 3,969.48% | $40,694.81 |
| 6 | Tesla (TSLA) | STOCK | 2,723.70% | $28,236.99 |
| 7 | Lam Research (LRCX) | STOCK | 2,614.04% | $27,140.39 |
| 8 | Broadcom (AVGO) | STOCK | 2,361.41% | $24,614.14 |
| 9 | KLA (KLAC) | STOCK | 2,170.88% | $22,708.84 |
| 10 | Eli Lilly (LLY) | STOCK | 1,916.81% | $20,168.12 |
| 11 | Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) | STOCK | 1,597.19% | $16,971.88 |
| 12 | VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) | ETF | 1,595.38% | $16,953.76 |
| 13 | ASML (ASML) | STOCK | 1,534.00% | $16,340.02 |
| 14 | Palo Alto Networks (PANW) | STOCK | 1,384.30% | $14,843.01 |
| 15 | Applied Materials (AMAT) | STOCK | 1,343.30% | $14,432.95 |
| 16 | Litecoin (LTC) | CRYPTO | 1,324.78% | $14,247.76 |
| 17 | Apple (AAPL) | STOCK | 1,239.21% | $13,392.09 |
| 18 | MercadoLibre (MELI) | STOCK | 980.94% | $10,809.39 |
| 19 | Caterpillar (CAT) | STOCK | 916.10% | $10,161.00 |
| 20 | Microsoft (MSFT) | STOCK | 885.79% | $9,857.91 |
| 21 | ServiceNow (NOW) | STOCK | 804.11% | $9,041.06 |
| 22 | Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) | ETF | 755.95% | $8,559.48 |
| 23 | Deere (DE) | STOCK | 751.97% | $8,519.72 |
| 24 | Costco (COST) | STOCK | 703.20% | $8,031.98 |
| 25 | Alphabet (GOOGL) | STOCK | 698.26% | $7,982.64 |
| 26 | AbbVie (ABBV) | STOCK | 669.60% | $7,695.99 |
| 27 | Morgan Stanley (MS) | STOCK | 604.17% | $7,041.71 |
| 28 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) | STOCK | 590.65% | $6,906.54 |
| 29 | Block (XYZ) | STOCK | 582.68% | $6,826.79 |
| 30 | Invesco QQQ (QQQ) | ETF | 544.30% | $6,443.04 |
| 31 | Amazon (AMZN) | STOCK | 527.99% | $6,279.91 |
| 32 | JPMorgan Chase (JPM) | STOCK | 521.21% | $6,212.13 |
| 33 | Mastercard (MA) | STOCK | 517.78% | $6,177.79 |
| 34 | Walmart (WMT) | STOCK | 507.04% | $6,070.40 |
| 35 | Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) | STOCK | 505.67% | $6,056.73 |
| 36 | Goldman Sachs (GS) | STOCK | 504.17% | $6,041.69 |
| 37 | American Express (AXP) | STOCK | 440.09% | $5,400.88 |
| 38 | Visa (V) | STOCK | 430.54% | $5,305.43 |
| 39 | Texas Instruments (TXN) | STOCK | 428.11% | $5,281.05 |
| 40 | Netflix (NFLX) | STOCK | 427.35% | $5,273.48 |
| 41 | GameStop (GME) | STOCK | 415.19% | $5,151.91 |
| 42 | Meta Platforms (META) | STOCK | 395.29% | $4,952.86 |
| 43 | Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) | STOCK | 371.45% | $4,714.48 |
| 44 | ConocoPhillips (COP) | STOCK | 370.10% | $4,701.04 |
| 45 | Cisco (CSCO) | STOCK | 365.10% | $4,651.03 |
| 46 | ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) | ETF | 346.19% | $4,461.93 |
| 47 | Sony (SONY) | STOCK | 338.71% | $4,387.10 |
| 48 | ADP (ADP) | STOCK | 334.95% | $4,349.52 |
| 49 | S&P Global (SPGI) | STOCK | 328.01% | $4,280.08 |
| 50 | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) | ETF | 321.54% | $4,215.39 |
| 51 | Amgen (AMGN) | STOCK | 319.30% | $4,193.00 |
| 52 | BlackRock (BLK) | STOCK | 319.06% | $4,190.57 |
| 53 | SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) | ETF | 318.68% | $4,186.78 |
| 54 | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) | ETF | 301.66% | $4,016.60 |
| 55 | Bank of America (BAC) | STOCK | 283.07% | $3,830.67 |
| 56 | Chipotle (CMG) | STOCK | 281.42% | $3,814.17 |
| 57 | Oracle (ORCL) | STOCK | 281.18% | $3,811.78 |
| 58 | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) | STOCK | 275.74% | $3,757.38 |
| 59 | RTX (RTX) | STOCK | 272.97% | $3,729.69 |
| 60 | Lowe's (LOW) | STOCK | 260.13% | $3,601.33 |
| 61 | Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) | ETF | 256.62% | $3,566.21 |
| 62 | Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) | ETF | 255.67% | $3,556.73 |
| 63 | Merck (MRK) | STOCK | 251.85% | $3,518.49 |
| 64 | UnitedHealth (UNH) | STOCK | 249.43% | $3,494.30 |
| 65 | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) | ETF | 248.58% | $3,485.84 |
| 66 | Danaher (DHR) | STOCK | 248.41% | $3,484.06 |
| 67 | Intuit (INTU) | STOCK | 242.35% | $3,423.47 |
| 68 | Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) | ETF | 240.34% | $3,403.40 |
| 69 | Chevron (CVX) | STOCK | 239.44% | $3,394.41 |
| 70 | Exxon Mobil (XOM) | STOCK | 238.70% | $3,386.99 |
| 71 | Philip Morris (PM) | STOCK | 238.16% | $3,381.64 |
| 72 | Salesforce (CRM) | STOCK | 237.03% | $3,370.35 |
| 73 | Qualcomm (QCOM) | STOCK | 235.29% | $3,352.94 |
| 74 | Home Depot (HD) | STOCK | 234.53% | $3,345.35 |
| 75 | Citigroup (C) | STOCK | 231.54% | $3,315.36 |
| 76 | NextEra Energy (NEE) | STOCK | 231.30% | $3,313.03 |
| 77 | Charles Schwab (SCHW) | STOCK | 224.79% | $3,247.93 |
| 78 | Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) | ETF | 221.92% | $3,219.17 |
| 79 | Lockheed Martin (LMT) | STOCK | 219.28% | $3,192.80 |
| 80 | Abbott (ABT) | STOCK | 218.95% | $3,189.50 |
| 81 | SAP (SAP) | STOCK | 217.02% | $3,170.15 |
| 82 | Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP) | ETF | 214.99% | $3,149.88 |
| 83 | Intel (INTC) | STOCK | 207.78% | $3,077.85 |
| 84 | Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE) | ETF | 203.29% | $3,032.89 |
| 85 | Gilead Sciences (GILD) | STOCK | 201.86% | $3,018.55 |
| 86 | SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) | ETF | 200.65% | $3,006.48 |
| 87 | Target (TGT) | STOCK | 200.07% | $3,000.73 |
| 88 | Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) | STOCK | 198.51% | $2,985.12 |
| 89 | Coca-Cola (KO) | STOCK | 198.12% | $2,981.19 |
| 90 | General Motors (GM) | STOCK | 189.68% | $2,896.77 |
| 91 | iShares Silver Trust (SLV) | ETF | 187.09% | $2,870.95 |
| 92 | McDonald's (MCD) | STOCK | 180.66% | $2,806.63 |
| 93 | Novo Nordisk (NVO) | STOCK | 177.57% | $2,775.68 |
| 94 | Southern Company (SO) | STOCK | 171.73% | $2,717.31 |
| 95 | Booking Holdings (BKNG) | STOCK | 170.52% | $2,705.22 |
| 96 | iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) | ETF | 163.72% | $2,637.23 |
| 97 | IBM (IBM) | STOCK | 161.71% | $2,617.12 |
| 98 | FedEx (FDX) | STOCK | 149.52% | $2,495.24 |
| 99 | Adobe (ADBE) | STOCK | 145.39% | $2,453.91 |
| 100 | Procter & Gamble (PG) | STOCK | 143.32% | $2,433.20 |
| 101 | Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) | ETF | 138.45% | $2,384.50 |
| 102 | Wells Fargo (WFC) | STOCK | 135.82% | $2,358.24 |
| 103 | Starbucks (SBUX) | STOCK | 135.63% | $2,356.26 |
| 104 | Regeneron (REGN) | STOCK | 135.53% | $2,355.27 |
| 105 | Duke Energy (DUK) | STOCK | 134.37% | $2,343.74 |
| 106 | GE Aerospace (GE) | STOCK | 127.41% | $2,274.06 |
| 107 | Toyota (TM) | STOCK | 115.51% | $2,155.15 |
| 108 | Mondelez (MDLZ) | STOCK | 80.71% | $1,807.07 |
| 109 | PepsiCo (PEP) | STOCK | 72.64% | $1,726.40 |
| 110 | Vanguard Real Estate ETF (VNQ) | ETF | 68.83% | $1,688.29 |
| 111 | Colgate-Palmolive (CL) | STOCK | 66.91% | $1,669.07 |
| 112 | Ford (F) | STOCK | 65.40% | $1,654.00 |
| 113 | Verizon (VZ) | STOCK | 59.66% | $1,596.64 |
| 114 | Pfizer (PFE) | STOCK | 57.22% | $1,572.23 |
| 115 | AT&T (T) | STOCK | 50.58% | $1,505.84 |
| 116 | Boeing (BA) | STOCK | 43.73% | $1,437.27 |
| 117 | UPS (UPS) | STOCK | 38.44% | $1,384.43 |
| 118 | PayPal (PYPL) | STOCK | 38.40% | $1,383.96 |
| 119 | Walt Disney (DIS) | STOCK | 31.75% | $1,317.53 |
| 120 | Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) | ETF | 15.62% | $1,156.23 |
| 121 | Occidental Petroleum (OXY) | STOCK | 15.59% | $1,155.87 |
| 122 | Alibaba (BABA) | STOCK | 4.12% | $1,041.22 |
| 123 | Comcast (CMCSA) | STOCK | 2.76% | $1,027.61 |
| 124 | Nike (NKE) | STOCK | -14.03% | $859.69 |
| 125 | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) | ETF | -17.41% | $825.88 |