Dec 18, 2023
The Biggest Winners on the S&P 500 (Past 20 Years) 🐂
What we’re showing
The best performing S&P 500 stocks, ranked by their 20-year total returns.
Key takeaway
Apple and Monster Beverage are the two highlights here, with both stocks climbing by nearly 60,000% over the past 20 years!
Context
- Shares of Monster and Apple were trading for mere cents in the 1980s.
- Intuitive Surgical (#4) IPO’d in 2000, and produces robotics used in surgeries.
- Netflix (#6) IPO’d in 2002, and was priced at $1 per share.
Dataset
| Rank | Ticker | Company | Sector | 20 Year Total Return (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | Apple | Information Technology | 59918 |
| 2 | MNST | Monster Beverage | Consumer Staples | 59299 |
| 3 | NVDA | NVIDIA | Information Technology | 28712 |
| 4 | ISRG | Intuitive Surgical | Health Care | 18221 |
| 5 | BKNG | Booking Holdings | Consumer Discretionary | 16299 |
| 6 | NFLX | Netflix | Communication Services | 13442 |
| 7 | ODFL | Old Dominion Freight Line | Industrials | 9403 |
| 8 | SBAC | SBA Communications | Real Estate | 7356 |
| 9 | CPRT | Copart | Industrials | 6592 |
| 10 | REGN | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Health Care | 6296 |
| 11 | AMZN | Amazon | Consumer Discretionary | 5314 |
| 12 | WST | West Pharmaceutical Services | Health Care | 4981 |
| 13 | TYL | Tyler Technologies | Information Technology | 4767 |
| 14 | ORLY | O'Reilly Automotive | Consumer Discretionary | 4413 |
| 15 | VRTX | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Health Care | 3962 |
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