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Most Widely Held Stocks Give Mixed Returns
Just because many investors hold a stock does not mean the stock will
reward them. The ten most widely held stocks listed in Money,
December 2005 are household names but their returns are mixed.
Except for Citigroup and Johnson & Johnson all stocks are down for
the latest five-year period and except for Lucent Technologies all stocks
are up for the latest ten-year period.
Most investors who bought near the peak of the 2000 bubble are still
in the red. But most long-term buy-and-hold investors are making money.
| Most
Widely Held Stocks |
| Company |
Symbol |
Return
1/3/2000 - 11/21/2005 |
Return
1/3/1995 - 11/21/2005
|
| General Electric |
|
-18.16% |
428.47%
|
| Microsoft |
|
-44.85% |
750.61%
|
| Pfizer |
|
-24.87%
|
307.12% |
| ExxonMobil |
|
74.31% |
415.49% |
| Cisco Systems |
|
-68.42% |
795.79% |
| Johnson & Johnson |
|
48.27% |
443.91% |
| Intel |
|
-40.15% |
560.57% |
| Citigroup |
|
50.37% |
1055.37% |
| Lucent Technologies * |
|
-50.00% |
-95.04% |
| Verizon Communications |
|
-33.73% |
89.59% |
| Note: Returns computed using price
data from finance.yahoo.com.
* LU prices from April 4, 1996. |
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