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$6,253
Advanced Micro Devices AMD$38,856
Alphabet GOOGL$6,358
Amazon AMZN$11,975
Amgen AMGN$2,712
Apple AAPL$9,279
Applied Materials AMAT$7,873
ARK Innovation ETF ARKK$3,039
AT&T T$2,011
Bank of America BAC$3,746
Barrick Gold GOLD$1,649
Berkshire Hathaway BRK-A$3,590
Biogen BIIB$361
Boeing BA$1,374
Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY$1,357
Broadcom AVGO$25,082
Chevron CVX$2,395
Cisco Systems CSCO$3,325
Citigroup C$2,242
Clorox CLX$1,928
CME Group CME$4,450
Coca-Cola KO$2,376
Coinbase Global COIN$4,472
Colgate-Palmolive CL$1,705
Costco COST$9,057
CSX CSX$3,380
Exxon Mobil XOM$1,989
Ford Motor Company F$1,057
Freeport-McMoRan FCX$2,416
General Electric GE$2,103
General Motors GM$1,929
Genuine Parts GPC$1,784
Gilead Sciences GILD$1,526
Goldman Sachs GS$4,418
Home Depot HD$4,797
Intel INTC$935
Intercontinental Exchange ICE$4,787
Invesco Hi Yd Dividend Achievers ETF PEY$2,528
Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ$5,440
iShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX$7,895
Johnson & Johnson JNJ$2,188
JPMorgan Chase JPM$6,407
Lam Research LRCX$11,601
Lowe's LOW$4,392
Marvell Technology MRVL$6,569
Mastercard MA$7,466
McDonald's MCD$4,301
Merck & Co MRK$2,175
Meta Platforms META$8,836
Micron Technology MU$3,268
Microsoft MSFT$11,466
Moderna MRNA$324
Morgan Stanley MS$5,172
Netflix NFLX$15,536
Nike NKE$1,931
NVDIA NVDA$270,976
PayPal PYPL$147,101
PepsiCo PEP$2,188
Pfizer PFE$1,345
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF NOBL$2,635
ProShares UltraPro QQQ TQQQ$20,614
Protor & Gamble PG$2,731
Regeneron REGN$1,679
Roku ROKU$187
salesforce.com CRM$5,306
Shopify SHOP$1,548
Snowflake SNOW$1,731
SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY$3,549
Spotify SPOT$2,565
Starbucks SBUX$3,231
Target TGT$2,258
Teladoc Health TDOC$154
Tesla TSLA$21,585
Texas Instruments TXN$4,804
TJX Companies TJX$4,363
Ulta Beauty ULTA$2,776
Union Pacific UNP$2,641
Unity Software U$143
VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF SMH$9,865
Verizon VZ$1,571
Visa V$6,114
Wal-Mart WMT$4,251
Walt Disney Co DIS$1,358
Wells Fargo WFC$2,020
Zoom ZM$1,800
Current value results use monthly closing prices adjusted for splits
and dividends from Alpha Vantage as of Mar-01-2025.

*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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