HISTORICAL RANKINGS
The last 5 years.
2021-10 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 | Micron (MU) | STOCK | 1,200.74% | $13,007.38 |
| 2 | NVIDIA (NVDA) | STOCK | 728.76% | $8,287.61 |
| 3 | Palantir (PLTR) | STOCK | 660.24% | $7,602.40 |
| 4 | Broadcom (AVGO) | STOCK | 560.96% | $6,609.62 |
| 5 | Eli Lilly (LLY) | STOCK | 423.08% | $5,230.77 |
| 6 | Palo Alto Networks (PANW) | STOCK | 348.51% | $4,485.06 |
| 7 | GE Aerospace (GE) | STOCK | 348.10% | $4,481.05 |
| 8 | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) | STOCK | 329.83% | $4,298.34 |
| 9 | Lam Research (LRCX) | STOCK | 329.51% | $4,295.07 |
| 10 | KLA (KLAC) | STOCK | 310.09% | $4,100.89 |
| 11 | Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) | STOCK | 298.74% | $3,987.42 |
| 12 | VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) | ETF | 297.13% | $3,971.32 |
| 13 | CrowdStrike (CRWD) | STOCK | 265.61% | $3,656.07 |
| 14 | Caterpillar (CAT) | STOCK | 264.97% | $3,649.74 |
| 15 | Exxon Mobil (XOM) | STOCK | 238.62% | $3,386.19 |
| 16 | AbbVie (ABBV) | STOCK | 197.50% | $2,975.04 |
| 17 | Applied Materials (AMAT) | STOCK | 187.72% | $2,877.22 |
| 18 | Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE) | ETF | 187.65% | $2,876.46 |
| 19 | Gilead Sciences (GILD) | STOCK | 187.39% | $2,873.86 |
| 20 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) | STOCK | 183.31% | $2,833.13 |
| 21 | Robinhood (HOOD) | STOCK | 171.86% | $2,718.62 |
| 22 | Philip Morris (PM) | STOCK | 165.53% | $2,655.34 |
| 23 | IBM (IBM) | STOCK | 156.71% | $2,567.11 |
| 24 | Walmart (WMT) | STOCK | 156.25% | $2,562.46 |
| 25 | Chevron (CVX) | STOCK | 148.91% | $2,489.06 |
| 26 | Amgen (AMGN) | STOCK | 147.96% | $2,479.62 |
| 27 | ConocoPhillips (COP) | STOCK | 140.28% | $2,402.79 |
| 28 | RTX (RTX) | STOCK | 139.32% | $2,393.25 |
| 29 | Goldman Sachs (GS) | STOCK | 139.14% | $2,391.41 |
| 30 | Apple (AAPL) | STOCK | 137.99% | $2,379.88 |
| 31 | Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) | ETF | 135.41% | $2,354.07 |
| 32 | JPMorgan Chase (JPM) | STOCK | 120.96% | $2,209.55 |
| 33 | iShares Silver Trust (SLV) | ETF | 120.55% | $2,205.52 |
| 34 | SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) | ETF | 119.99% | $2,199.88 |
| 35 | Alphabet (GOOGL) | STOCK | 118.35% | $2,183.49 |
| 36 | Cisco (CSCO) | STOCK | 118.20% | $2,182.05 |
| 37 | Costco (COST) | STOCK | 115.04% | $2,150.40 |
| 38 | Lockheed Martin (LMT) | STOCK | 107.83% | $2,078.25 |
| 39 | Occidental Petroleum (OXY) | STOCK | 105.72% | $2,057.23 |
| 40 | Citigroup (C) | STOCK | 105.38% | $2,053.81 |
| 41 | Morgan Stanley (MS) | STOCK | 103.37% | $2,033.71 |
| 42 | ASML (ASML) | STOCK | 102.67% | $2,026.68 |
| 43 | Deere (DE) | STOCK | 101.47% | $2,014.68 |
| 44 | Meta Platforms (META) | STOCK | 100.51% | $2,005.05 |
| 45 | Visa (V) | STOCK | 100.06% | $2,000.61 |
| 46 | Intel (INTC) | STOCK | 92.68% | $1,926.79 |
| 47 | Merck (MRK) | STOCK | 92.25% | $1,922.51 |
| 48 | American Express (AXP) | STOCK | 91.65% | $1,916.50 |
| 49 | Mastercard (MA) | STOCK | 91.49% | $1,914.88 |
| 50 | Coca-Cola (KO) | STOCK | 90.39% | $1,903.85 |
| 51 | Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) | STOCK | 88.91% | $1,889.10 |
| 52 | Invesco QQQ (QQQ) | ETF | 87.97% | $1,879.70 |
| 53 | Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) | STOCK | 86.24% | $1,862.37 |
| 54 | Wells Fargo (WFC) | STOCK | 81.90% | $1,819.03 |
| 55 | Southern Company (SO) | STOCK | 78.94% | $1,789.41 |
| 56 | SAP (SAP) | STOCK | 78.92% | $1,789.22 |
| 57 | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) | ETF | 77.50% | $1,775.03 |
| 58 | SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) | ETF | 76.93% | $1,769.27 |
| 59 | FedEx (FDX) | STOCK | 73.93% | $1,739.35 |
| 60 | Texas Instruments (TXN) | STOCK | 73.89% | $1,738.87 |
| 61 | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) | ETF | 68.78% | $1,687.77 |
| 62 | Cloudflare (NET) | STOCK | 67.28% | $1,672.81 |
| 63 | Microsoft (MSFT) | STOCK | 64.80% | $1,648.03 |
| 64 | Booking Holdings (BKNG) | STOCK | 64.74% | $1,647.45 |
| 65 | Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) | ETF | 63.18% | $1,631.80 |
| 66 | Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) | ETF | 62.27% | $1,622.67 |
| 67 | Datadog (DDOG) | STOCK | 61.42% | $1,614.19 |
| 68 | Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) | ETF | 60.80% | $1,608.02 |
| 69 | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) | ETF | 58.69% | $1,586.89 |
| 70 | Uber (UBER) | STOCK | 52.21% | $1,522.14 |
| 71 | ADP (ADP) | STOCK | 51.48% | $1,514.84 |
| 72 | Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) | ETF | 51.30% | $1,513.00 |
| 73 | Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP) | ETF | 49.19% | $1,491.87 |
| 74 | Duke Energy (DUK) | STOCK | 48.55% | $1,485.46 |
| 75 | Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) | ETF | 47.77% | $1,477.73 |
| 76 | Qualcomm (QCOM) | STOCK | 47.41% | $1,474.10 |
| 77 | Amazon (AMZN) | STOCK | 47.07% | $1,470.75 |
| 78 | AT&T (T) | STOCK | 46.23% | $1,462.32 |
| 79 | General Motors (GM) | STOCK | 45.52% | $1,455.23 |
| 80 | JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI) | ETF | 41.38% | $1,413.77 |
| 81 | BNB (BNB) | CRYPTO | 41.34% | $1,413.39 |
| 82 | Oracle (ORCL) | STOCK | 40.70% | $1,406.99 |
| 83 | Colgate-Palmolive (CL) | STOCK | 39.01% | $1,390.05 |
| 84 | BlackRock (BLK) | STOCK | 33.81% | $1,338.11 |
| 85 | Bitcoin (BTC) | CRYPTO | 31.21% | $1,312.07 |
| 86 | iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) | ETF | 28.63% | $1,286.27 |
| 87 | Procter & Gamble (PG) | STOCK | 28.10% | $1,280.98 |
| 88 | Regeneron (REGN) | STOCK | 26.98% | $1,269.83 |
| 89 | Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) | STOCK | 25.24% | $1,252.43 |
| 90 | Toyota (TM) | STOCK | 23.07% | $1,230.73 |
| 91 | MercadoLibre (MELI) | STOCK | 22.22% | $1,222.23 |
| 92 | Mondelez (MDLZ) | STOCK | 20.26% | $1,202.62 |
| 93 | Bank of America (BAC) | STOCK | 19.60% | $1,195.98 |
| 94 | Charles Schwab (SCHW) | STOCK | 18.06% | $1,180.58 |
| 95 | XRP (XRP) | CRYPTO | 16.67% | $1,166.68 |
| 96 | Verizon (VZ) | STOCK | 16.03% | $1,160.28 |
| 97 | Sony (SONY) | STOCK | 15.18% | $1,151.84 |
| 98 | Shopify (SHOP) | STOCK | 15.00% | $1,150.04 |
| 99 | ServiceNow (NOW) | STOCK | 13.91% | $1,139.07 |
| 100 | McDonald's (MCD) | STOCK | 13.68% | $1,136.85 |
| 101 | NextEra Energy (NEE) | STOCK | 10.05% | $1,100.53 |
| 102 | Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) | STOCK | 7.97% | $1,079.68 |
| 103 | Starbucks (SBUX) | STOCK | 6.99% | $1,069.88 |
| 104 | S&P Global (SPGI) | STOCK | 4.73% | $1,047.25 |
| 105 | Vanguard Real Estate ETF (VNQ) | ETF | 3.27% | $1,032.68 |
| 106 | Tesla (TSLA) | STOCK | 0.24% | $1,002.39 |
| 107 | UnitedHealth (UNH) | STOCK | -0.62% | $993.83 |
| 108 | PepsiCo (PEP) | STOCK | -1.20% | $988.04 |
| 109 | Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) | ETF | -1.36% | $986.42 |
| 110 | Home Depot (HD) | STOCK | -2.34% | $976.60 |
| 111 | Netflix (NFLX) | STOCK | -4.61% | $953.92 |
| 112 | Lowe's (LOW) | STOCK | -6.13% | $938.65 |
| 113 | Ford (F) | STOCK | -7.39% | $926.12 |
| 114 | Snowflake (SNOW) | STOCK | -8.03% | $919.71 |
| 115 | Boeing (BA) | STOCK | -9.02% | $909.77 |
| 116 | Pfizer (PFE) | STOCK | -10.55% | $894.51 |
| 117 | PDD Holdings (PDD) | STOCK | -11.11% | $888.89 |
| 118 | Abbott (ABT) | STOCK | -11.12% | $888.76 |
| 119 | Danaher (DHR) | STOCK | -14.45% | $855.49 |
| 120 | Salesforce (CRM) | STOCK | -15.47% | $845.26 |
| 121 | Novo Nordisk (NVO) | STOCK | -20.48% | $795.23 |
| 122 | Chipotle (CMG) | STOCK | -22.65% | $773.46 |
| 123 | Dow (DOW) | STOCK | -23.40% | $765.95 |
| 124 | SoFi (SOFI) | STOCK | -27.25% | $727.48 |
| 125 | Target (TGT) | STOCK | -31.24% | $687.57 |
| 126 | ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) | ETF | -31.27% | $687.30 |
| 127 | Walt Disney (DIS) | STOCK | -31.36% | $686.42 |
| 128 | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) | ETF | -34.12% | $658.79 |
| 129 | Alibaba (BABA) | STOCK | -35.81% | $641.94 |
| 130 | Roblox (RBLX) | STOCK | -37.05% | $629.49 |
| 131 | UPS (UPS) | STOCK | -40.03% | $599.69 |
| 132 | Intuit (INTU) | STOCK | -42.91% | $570.88 |
| 133 | Comcast (CMCSA) | STOCK | -43.98% | $560.19 |
| 134 | Ethereum (ETH) | CRYPTO | -45.31% | $546.88 |
| 135 | GameStop (GME) | STOCK | -45.90% | $541.01 |
| 136 | Coinbase (COIN) | STOCK | -48.52% | $514.84 |
| 137 | Solana (SOL) | CRYPTO | -49.80% | $502.02 |
| 138 | Adobe (ADBE) | STOCK | -59.43% | $405.65 |
| 139 | Chainlink (LINK) | CRYPTO | -61.66% | $383.39 |
| 140 | Block (XYZ) | STOCK | -69.96% | $300.43 |
| 141 | Litecoin (LTC) | CRYPTO | -70.33% | $296.66 |
| 142 | Dogecoin (DOGE) | CRYPTO | -72.46% | $275.37 |
| 143 | PayPal (PYPL) | STOCK | -75.21% | $247.89 |
| 144 | Nike (NKE) | STOCK | -75.56% | $244.36 |
| 145 | Sea (SE) | STOCK | -78.28% | $217.22 |
| 146 | Avalanche (AVAX) | CRYPTO | -86.07% | $139.33 |
| 147 | Cardano (ADA) | CRYPTO | -89.55% | $104.54 |
| 148 | Lucid (LCID) | STOCK | -99.05% | $9.52 |