Best Investments Since 2020: What $1,000 Became Today
Of 103 stocks, funds and cryptos, $1,000 in BNB at the start of 2020 did best: it would be worth $55,017 today (55.0x). The weakest was AMC Entertainment at $41.13. 43 of 103 beat the S&P 500 ($2,626).
$1,000 at the start of 2020, worth today
Stocks and the S&P 500 row include reinvested dividends.
| # | Investment | Worth today | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BNB | $55,017 | 55.0x |
| 2 | Dogecoin | $47,025 | 47.0x |
| 3 | NVIDIA | $38,199 | 38.2x |
| 4 | TRON | $25,222 | 25.2x |
| 5 | CrowdStrike | $21,208 | 21.2x |
| 6 | Ethereum | $20,736 | 20.7x |
| 7 | Cloudflare | $20,683 | 20.7x |
| 8 | Palantir | $19,556 | 19.6x |
| 9 | Super Micro Computer | $17,414 | 17.4x |
| 10 | GameStop | $14,903 | 14.9x |
| 11 | Broadcom | $12,894 | 12.9x |
| 12 | AMD | $12,369 | 12.4x |
| 13 | Tesla | $12,301 | 12.3x |
| 14 | Bitcoin | $11,600 | 11.6x |
| 15 | MicroStrategy | $10,656 | 10.7x |
| 16 | Palo Alto Networks | $9,873 | 9.87x |
| 17 | Eli Lilly | $9,677 | 9.68x |
| 18 | TSMC | $8,595 | 8.60x |
| 19 | Chainlink | $8,281 | 8.28x |
| 20 | XRP | $7,886 | 7.89x |
| 21 | Cardano | $7,458 | 7.46x |
| 22 | Datadog | $7,318 | 7.32x |
| 23 | ASML | $6,411 | 6.41x |
| 24 | Caterpillar | $6,253 | 6.25x |
| 25 | $4,972 | 4.97x | |
| 26 | Stellar | $4,947 | 4.95x |
| 27 | Goldman Sachs | $4,565 | 4.57x |
| 28 | Apple | $4,558 | 4.56x |
| 29 | Morgan Stanley | $4,550 | 4.55x |
| 30 | Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT) | $4,209 | 4.21x |
| 31 | AbbVie | $3,865 | 3.87x |
| 32 | Shopify | $3,619 | 3.62x |
| 33 | Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ) | $3,551 | 3.55x |
| 34 | Meta | $3,520 | 3.52x |
| 35 | Costco | $3,486 | 3.49x |
| 36 | Microsoft | $3,350 | 3.35x |
| 37 | Spotify | $3,237 | 3.24x |
| 38 | ExxonMobil | $3,069 | 3.07x |
| 39 | Walmart | $2,953 | 2.95x |
| 40 | Oracle | $2,822 | 2.82x |
| 41 | JPMorgan | $2,815 | 2.82x |
| 42 | Gold | $2,769 | 2.77x |
| 43 | Cisco | $2,673 | 2.67x |
| 44 | Gold ETF (GLD) | $2,657 | 2.66x |
| 45 | S&P 500 (index fund) | $2,626 | 2.63x |
| 46 | Texas Instruments | $2,626 | 2.63x |
| 47 | Amazon | $2,604 | 2.60x |
| 48 | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) | $2,599 | 2.60x |
| 49 | S&P 500 ETF (SPY) | $2,588 | 2.59x |
| 50 | Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) | $2,506 | 2.51x |
| 51 | Qualcomm | $2,426 | 2.43x |
| 52 | General Motors | $2,274 | 2.27x |
| 53 | Chevron | $2,257 | 2.26x |
| 54 | IBM | $2,253 | 2.25x |
| 55 | Uber | $2,232 | 2.23x |
| 56 | ServiceNow | $2,232 | 2.23x |
| 57 | Johnson & Johnson | $2,202 | 2.20x |
| 58 | Berkshire Hathaway | $2,201 | 2.20x |
| 59 | Intel | $2,163 | 2.16x |
| 60 | Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD) | $2,155 | 2.16x |
| 61 | Netflix | $2,129 | 2.13x |
| 62 | Merck | $2,096 | 2.10x |
| 63 | Citigroup | $2,035 | 2.03x |
| 64 | Visa | $2,015 | 2.01x |
| 65 | Dow Jones ETF (DIA) | $2,005 | 2.00x |
| 66 | Booking Holdings | $2,001 | 2.00x |
| 67 | Coca-Cola | $1,937 | 1.94x |
| 68 | Mastercard | $1,935 | 1.93x |
| 69 | Chipotle | $1,869 | 1.87x |
| 70 | Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) | $1,826 | 1.83x |
| 71 | ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) | $1,825 | 1.82x |
| 72 | Bank of America | $1,816 | 1.82x |
| 73 | Ford | $1,814 | 1.81x |
| 74 | Wells Fargo | $1,778 | 1.78x |
| 75 | Lowe's | $1,764 | 1.76x |
| 76 | Sony | $1,752 | 1.75x |
| 77 | Litecoin | $1,637 | 1.64x |
| 78 | Home Depot | $1,554 | 1.55x |
| 79 | Bitcoin Cash | $1,505 | 1.51x |
| 80 | Target | $1,494 | 1.49x |
| 81 | UnitedHealth | $1,436 | 1.44x |
| 82 | Procter & Gamble | $1,426 | 1.43x |
| 83 | Salesforce | $1,377 | 1.38x |
| 84 | McDonald's | $1,365 | 1.36x |
| 85 | Snowflake | $1,304 | 1.30x |
| 86 | Zoom | $1,286 | 1.29x |
| 87 | Starbucks | $1,244 | 1.24x |
| 88 | PepsiCo | $1,173 | 1.17x |
| 89 | Verizon | $1,118 | 1.12x |
| 90 | Roku | $1,106 | 1.11x |
| 91 | Airbnb | $1,085 | 1.09x |
| 92 | Pfizer | $1,078 | 1.08x |
| 93 | Intuit | $1,050 | 1.05x |
| 94 | $980.59 | 0.98x | |
| 95 | Disney | $731.12 | 0.73x |
| 96 | Adobe | $694.70 | 0.69x |
| 97 | Comcast | $617.79 | 0.62x |
| 98 | Boeing | $566.24 | 0.57x |
| 99 | Alibaba | $521.61 | 0.52x |
| 100 | PayPal | $491.97 | 0.49x |
| 101 | The Trade Desk | $456.54 | 0.46x |
| 102 | Lululemon | $414.79 | 0.41x |
| 103 | Nike | $389.87 | 0.39x |
| 104 | Snap | $315.55 | 0.32x |
| 105 | AMC Entertainment | $41.13 | 0.04x |
During 2020 alone
- 1Tesla+747%
- 2Chainlink+537%
- 3Ethereum+467%
- 4Cardano+453%
- 5Zoom+424%
- 6Cloudflare+338%
- 7CrowdStrike+306%
- 8Bitcoin+303%
- 9Pinterest+262%
- 10Litecoin+202%
- 11Snap+196%
- 12MicroStrategy+195%
- 13The Trade Desk+185%
- 14Stellar+184%
- 15GameStop+173%
- 16BNB+172%
- 17Shopify+168%
- 18ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)+151%
- 19Datadog+149%
- 20Palantir+146%
- 21Dogecoin+135%
- 22Roku+132%
- 23NVIDIA+119%
- 24PayPal+109%
- 25Spotify+105%
- 26TRON+102%
- 27TSMC+91%
- 28AMD+88%
- 29ServiceNow+81%
- 30Apple+74%
- 31Qualcomm+72%
- 32Amazon+68%
- 33Bitcoin Cash+68%
- 34ASML+67%
- 35Uber+65%
- 36Netflix+59%
- 37Chipotle+54%
- 38Lululemon+53%
- 39Palo Alto Networks+49%
- 40Sony+46%
- 41Adobe+45%
- 42Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)+44%
- 43Target+44%
- 44Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)+41%
- 45Intuit+41%
- 46Nike+38%
- 47Broadcom+38%
- 48Microsoft+37%
- 49Lowe's+36%
- 50Morgan Stanley+35%
- 51Costco+35%
- 52Salesforce+32%
- 53Super Micro Computer+31%
- 54Texas Instruments+29%
- 55Meta+28%
- 56Eli Lilly+28%
- 57Gold ETF (GLD)+27%
- 58Google+26%
- 59Walmart+25%
- 60Gold+25%
- 61Caterpillar+25%
- 62AbbVie+24%
- 63Home Depot+23%
- 64UnitedHealth+21%
- 65Oracle+20%
- 66Disney+20%
- 67S&P 500 (index fund)+18%
- 68Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)+18%
- 69Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)+18%
- 70Starbucks+18%
- 71Mastercard+16%
- 72Goldman Sachs+16%
- 73XRP+16%
- 74Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)+16%
- 75S&P 500 ETF (SPY)+16%
- 76Visa+15%
- 77Procter & Gamble+14%
- 78Comcast+14%
- 79Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)+13%
- 80Johnson & Johnson+10%
- 81General Motors+9.7%
- 82Snowflake+9.6%
- 83PepsiCo+9.3%
- 84McDonald's+7.3%
- 85Dow Jones ETF (DIA)+7%
- 86Booking Holdings+4.3%
- 87Alibaba+3.7%
- 88Pfizer+3.2%
- 89Verizon+0.6%
- 90Berkshire Hathaway+0%
- 91Coca-Cola−0.8%
- 92IBM−3.7%
- 93Airbnb−3.8%
- 94Cisco−6%
- 95JPMorgan−7.6%
- 96Ford−8%
- 97Merck−9.2%
- 98Bank of America−13%
- 99Intel−16%
- 100Citigroup−23%
- 101Chevron−26%
- 102ExxonMobil−37%
- 103Boeing−39%
- 104Wells Fargo−43%
- 105AMC Entertainment−73%
Start-of-year prices; current prices refresh hourly. Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.