Best Performing Stocks In 1975 | StatMuse Money (2024)

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Of the U.S. stocks with more than 20 years of trading history, Nvidia (NVDA) has the highest annualized return (33.38%)—and that's excluding its more than 130% performance so far this year.

Of the U.S. stocks with more than 20 years of trading history, Nvidia (NVDA) has the highest annualized return (33.38%)—and that's excluding its more than 130% performance so far this year.

Amazon (AMZN)

The dot.com boom followed, and Amazon became the world's largest retailer. That's an average stock market return of over 287,000%.

Walmart (WMT) had the highest return in 1975 by a US stock, returning 184.8%.

Of commodities, gold was the clear winner. The price soared from just over $269 per ounce in 1970 to more than $2,500 per ounce in 1980. Energy and raw materials also did well. "Precious metals should continue to do well in this cycle," Wantrobski says.

At the top is Altria Group Inc. (MO), a tobacco company that, until 2003, was known as Philip Morris Companies Inc. The tobacco company has returned more than $2.6 million for every dollar invested on Dec. 31, 1925, the earliest date available in the data set Bessembinder used as the basis for his calculations.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.: Are you amazed to see Warrant Buffet's company at the top of the list of most expensive stock? Yes, this consumer goods conglomerate is the world's most expensive stock, which has a current market price of US$ 630500.

Even so, the gains posted by Ambrx Biopharma (AMAM) in Friday's session are unusual and particularly eye-catching. The stock soared to the tune of a hardly believable 1007% after the company announced pleasing results from the mid-stage testing of its breast cancer drug ARX788.

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The 1950s and 1990s are neck and neck for the best decades investors have ever seen. But if you started saving in those decades your results weren't nearly as good as other starting points because the returns following those decades were underwhelming.

These include bonds, commodities, gold and precious metals, real estate, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) and defense stocks.