Investors who placed their hard-earned cash into major US indices have enjoyed respectable returns over the past 10 years. Despite a number of recent market corrections — the recent market correction partially generated by the Russia-Ukraine war and the stock market crash of 2020, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NASDAQ:SPY), Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ) and SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (NASDAQ:DIA) have returned 149%, 291% and 115% respectively.
As good as investors in the major U.S. indices have had it over the past ten years, a number of the world's most popular consumer discretionary, tech and clean energy manufacturing stocks have provided even better returns. Bulls that took a chance on these names were rewarded with gains that outperformed much of the broader market.
Winners Since September 2012: According to data from Benzinga Pro, here's how much $1,000 in each of the following stocks bought back in fall 2012 would be worth today:
- Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA): $145,097.40
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD): $17,223.10
- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA): $36,295.30
- Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL): $6,146.60
- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT): $7,579.70
- Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN): $8,994.50
- Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG): $26,325.30