Best Investments Since 2021: What $1,000 Became Today

Of 111 stocks, funds and cryptos, $1,000 in Solana at the start of 2021 did best: it would be worth $78,434 today (78.4x). The weakest was Snap at $106.78. 47 of 111 beat the S&P 500 ($2,218).

$1,000 at the start of 2021, worth today

Stocks and the S&P 500 row include reinvested dividends.

#	Investment	Worth today	Multiple	Per year
1	Solana	$78,434	78.4x	+114%
2	BNB	$20,213	20.2x	+69%
3	Dogecoin	$20,011	20.0x	+68%
4	NVIDIA	$17,435	17.4x	+64%
5	Super Micro Computer	$13,253	13.3x	+57%
6	TRON	$12,494	12.5x	+55%
7	Broadcom	$9,349	9.35x	+48%
8	Palantir	$7,950	7.95x	+43%
9	Eli Lilly	$7,579	7.58x	+42%
10	XRP	$6,811	6.81x	+40%
11	Palo Alto Networks	$6,610	6.61x	+39%
12	AMD	$6,580	6.58x	+39%
13	GameStop	$5,452	5.45x	+34%
14	CrowdStrike	$5,230	5.23x	+33%
15	Caterpillar	$5,016	5.02x	+32%
16	ExxonMobil	$4,856	4.86x	+32%
17	Cloudflare	$4,722	4.72x	+31%
18	TSMC	$4,501	4.50x	+30%
19	Goldman Sachs	$3,942	3.94x	+27%
20	Google	$3,934	3.93x	+27%
21	ASML	$3,848	3.85x	+26%
22	Ethereum	$3,658	3.66x	+25%
23	MicroStrategy	$3,616	3.62x	+25%
24	Avalanche	$3,599	3.60x	+25%
25	Morgan Stanley	$3,364	3.36x	+24%
26	Robinhood	$3,318	3.32x	+26%
27	AbbVie	$3,111	3.11x	+22%
28	Wells Fargo	$3,094	3.09x	+22%
29	Chevron	$3,062	3.06x	+22%
30	JPMorgan	$3,045	3.04x	+21%
31	Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)	$2,984	2.98x	+21%
32	Datadog	$2,944	2.94x	+21%
33	Bitcoin	$2,878	2.88x	+20%
34	Cisco	$2,843	2.84x	+20%
35	Meta	$2,746	2.75x	+19%
36	Citigroup	$2,641	2.64x	+18%
37	Apple	$2,622	2.62x	+18%
38	Intel	$2,585	2.59x	+18%
39	Costco	$2,583	2.58x	+18%
40	Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)	$2,468	2.47x	+17%
41	Microsoft	$2,446	2.45x	+17%
42	Walmart	$2,358	2.36x	+16%
43	Oracle	$2,347	2.35x	+16%
44	IBM	$2,339	2.34x	+16%
45	Merck	$2,310	2.31x	+16%
46	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)	$2,246	2.25x	+15%
47	S&P 500 ETF (SPY)	$2,238	2.24x	+15%
48	S&P 500 (index fund)	$2,218	2.22x	+15%
49	Gold	$2,213	2.21x	+15%
50	Berkshire Hathaway	$2,201	2.20x	+15%
51	Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)	$2,117	2.12x	+14%
52	Bank of America	$2,099	2.10x	+14%
53	Gold ETF (GLD)	$2,098	2.10x	+14%
54	General Motors	$2,073	2.07x	+14%
55	Texas Instruments	$2,037	2.04x	+13%
56	Johnson & Johnson	$2,000	2.00x	+13%
57	Ford	$1,972	1.97x	+13%
58	Coca-Cola	$1,952	1.95x	+12%
59	Booking Holdings	$1,918	1.92x	+12%
60	Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)	$1,905	1.91x	+12%
61	Dow Jones ETF (DIA)	$1,873	1.87x	+12%
62	Visa	$1,758	1.76x	+10%
63	Stellar	$1,740	1.74x	+10%
64	Mastercard	$1,661	1.66x	+9.2%
65	Spotify	$1,578	1.58x	+8.3%
66	Amazon	$1,551	1.55x	+7.9%
67	Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)	$1,543	1.54x	+7.8%
68	Tesla	$1,452	1.45x	+6.7%
69	Qualcomm	$1,413	1.41x	+6.2%
70	Uber	$1,352	1.35x	+5.4%
71	Shopify	$1,351	1.35x	+5.4%
72	Cardano	$1,350	1.35x	+5.4%
73	Netflix	$1,343	1.34x	+5.3%
74	SoFi	$1,307	1.31x	+4.8%
75	Lowe's	$1,302	1.30x	+4.7%
76	Chainlink	$1,300	1.30x	+4.7%
77	McDonald's	$1,272	1.27x	+4.3%
78	Home Depot	$1,264	1.26x	+4.2%
79	Procter & Gamble	$1,246	1.25x	+3.9%
80	ServiceNow	$1,234	1.23x	+3.7%
81	Chipotle	$1,216	1.22x	+3.5%
82	Sony	$1,201	1.20x	+3.2%
83	Snowflake	$1,190	1.19x	+3.1%
84	UnitedHealth	$1,182	1.18x	+3%
85	Airbnb	$1,129	1.13x	+2.1%
86	Verizon	$1,111	1.11x	+1.8%
87	PepsiCo	$1,073	1.07x	+1.2%
88	Starbucks	$1,056	1.06x	+1%
89	Pfizer	$1,045	1.05x	+0.8%
90	Salesforce	$1,044	1.04x	+0.8%
91	Target	$1,039	1.04x	+0.7%
92	Boeing	$925.52	0.93x	−1.3%
93	Bitcoin Cash	$898.36	0.90x	−1.8%
94	Intuit	$746.27	0.75x	−5%
95	ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)	$727.31	0.73x	−5.4%
96	Disney	$609.83	0.61x	−8.3%
97	Roblox	$594.60	0.59x	−8.9%
98	Coinbase	$574.07	0.57x	−9.7%
99	Comcast	$542.74	0.54x	−10%
100	Litecoin	$542.54	0.54x	−10%
101	Alibaba	$503.12	0.50x	−11%
102	Adobe	$478.70	0.48x	−12%
103	Roku	$477.13	0.48x	−12%
104	Nike	$281.72	0.28x	−20%
105	Lululemon	$271.66	0.27x	−20%
106	Pinterest	$270.82	0.27x	−20%
107	Zoom	$245.51	0.25x	−22%
108	PayPal	$234.94	0.23x	−22%
109	The Trade Desk	$160.27	0.16x	−27%
110	AMC Entertainment	$151.74	0.15x	−28%
111	Rivian	$149.44	0.15x	−32%
112	Polkadot	$128.64	0.13x	−30%
113	Snap	$106.78	0.11x	−32%

During 2021 alone

1Solana+11,084%
2Dogecoin+3,517%
3Avalanche+3,369%
4BNB+1,270%
5AMC Entertainment+1,219%
6GameStop+786%
7Cardano+622%
8Ethereum+400%
9XRP+277%
10Polkadot+188%
11TRON+181%
12Ford+157%
13NVIDIA+130%
14Stellar+108%
15Datadog+80%
16Chainlink+74%
17Wells Fargo+73%
18Intuit+71%
19Cloudflare+69%
20Google+68%
21Eli Lilly+67%
22Tesla+65%
23AMD+63%
24ExxonMobil+63%
25Lowe's+62%
26Broadcom+61%
27ASML+60%
28Pfizer+60%
29Bitcoin+60%
30Home Depot+58%
31Bank of America+57%
32Microsoft+55%
33Palo Alto Networks+55%
34Goldman Sachs+52%
35General Motors+51%
36Costco+50%
37Morgan Stanley+50%
38Chevron+48%
39Super Micro Computer+47%
40Cisco+47%
41UnitedHealth+46%
42Roblox+42%
43Apple+42%
44Oracle+40%
45AbbVie+35%
46Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)+34%
47Target+32%
48JPMorgan+32%
49Berkshire Hathaway+32%
50Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)+32%
51Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)+31%
52MicroStrategy+31%
53S&P 500 ETF (SPY)+31%
54McDonald's+31%
55Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)+30%
56S&P 500 (index fund)+29%
57SoFi+29%
58Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)+28%
59Chipotle+28%
60Qualcomm+28%
61Sony+27%
62Meta+26%
63Bitcoin Cash+26%
64Shopify+25%
65Airbnb+24%
66PepsiCo+23%
67Dow Jones ETF (DIA)+23%
68Procter & Gamble+21%
69IBM+21%
70Texas Instruments+20%
71ServiceNow+20%
72Snowflake+19%
73Nike+18%
74Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)+18%
75Litecoin+18%
76TSMC+17%
77The Trade Desk+17%
78Adobe+16%
79Caterpillar+16%
80Salesforce+16%
81Coca-Cola+16%
82Starbucks+15%
83Netflix+14%
84Booking Holdings+14%
85Johnson & Johnson+12%
86Intel+9.9%
87Lululemon+8.7%
88Citigroup+8.1%
89Amazon+7%
90Mastercard+6.1%
91Merck+3.1%
92Boeing+2.5%
93Visa+2.3%
94Comcast+2.3%
95Rivian+2%
96Walmart+0.3%
97CrowdStrike−1.1%
98Gold−3.6%
99Snap−6%
100Verizon−6.9%
101Gold ETF (GLD)−7.7%
102Disney−12%
103Uber−14%
104PayPal−16%
105Palantir−21%
106Spotify−21%
107ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)−22%
108Coinbase−24%
109Roku−27%
110Pinterest−47%
111Robinhood−47%
112Alibaba−47%
113Zoom−49%

Start-of-year prices; current prices refresh hourly. Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.