Making Money with Stocks


Here is a table of current values of a $1,000 investment made 10 years ago for 85 stocks listed in alphabetical order. Some stocks turned the $1,000 investment into huge profits. Other stocks produced more modest returns or lost money.

Making Money with 85 Stocks

Stock & Return

Symbol
& Snapshot

Current Value
(Sort)

Adobe Systems ADBE$8,000
Advanced Micro Devices AMD$33,781
Alphabet GOOGL$5,379
Amazon AMZN$10,224
Amgen AMGN$3,140
Apple AAPL$9,706
Applied Materials AMAT$8,979
ARK Innovation ETF ARKK$2,207
AT&T T$1,423
Bank of America BAC$3,080
Barrick Gold GOLD$1,238
Berkshire Hathaway BRK-A$3,476
Biogen BIIB$597
Boeing BA$1,481
Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY$1,341
Broadcom AVGO$24,328
Chevron CVX$1,679
Cisco Systems CSCO$2,719
Citigroup C$1,530
Clorox CLX$2,435
CME Group CME$4,214
Coca-Cola KO$2,389
Coinbase Global COIN$3,337
Colgate-Palmolive CL$2,122
Costco COST$9,080
CSX CSX$3,953
Exxon Mobil XOM$1,772
Ford Motor Company F$998
Freeport-McMoRan FCX$1,281
General Electric GE$1,576
General Motors GM$1,807
Genuine Parts GPC$2,129
Gilead Sciences GILD$1,012
Goldman Sachs GS$3,331
Home Depot HD$4,949
Intel INTC$729
Intercontinental Exchange ICE$4,889
Invesco Hi Yd Dividend Achievers ETF PEY$2,530
Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ$5,011
iShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX$8,205
Johnson & Johnson JNJ$2,122
JPMorgan Chase JPM$4,867
Lam Research LRCX$12,269
Lowe's LOW$5,589
Marvell Technology MRVL$5,686
Mastercard MA$6,777
McDonald's MCD$3,974
Merck & Co MRK$2,739
Meta Platforms META$6,867
Micron Technology MU$2,791
Microsoft MSFT$10,527
Moderna MRNA$755
Morgan Stanley MS$3,801
Netflix NFLX$9,960
Nike NKE$2,308
NVDIA NVDA$228,408
PayPal PYPL$150,331
PepsiCo PEP$2,575
Pfizer PFE$1,501
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF NOBL$2,757
ProShares UltraPro QQQ TQQQ$17,226
Protor & Gamble PG$2,811
Regeneron REGN$3,365
Roku ROKU$142
salesforce.com CRM$4,203
Shopify SHOP$968
Snowflake SNOW$1,083
SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY$3,282
Spotify SPOT$1,380
Starbucks SBUX$2,876
Target TGT$3,362
Teladoc Health TDOC$117
Tesla TSLA$12,203
Texas Instruments TXN$5,544
TJX Companies TJX$4,531
Ulta Beauty ULTA$3,698
Union Pacific UNP$3,027
Unity Software U$88
VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF SMH$9,783
Verizon VZ$1,372
Visa V$5,661
Wal-Mart WMT$3,761
Walt Disney Co DIS$1,087
Wells Fargo WFC$1,507
Zoom ZM$1,648
Current value results use monthly closing prices adjusted for splits
and dividends from Alpha Vantage as of Sep-04-2024.

*Note: If a stock has less than 10 years of price data, the current value is based on all years of price data from Alpha Vantage. Values are based on the most recent monthy closing prices from Alpha Vantage. Prices are adjusted for splits and dividends. The Return Details table uses the most recent monthly closes.

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