Best Investments Since 2023: What $1,000 Became Today

Of 113 stocks, funds and cryptos, $1,000 in Palantir at the start of 2023 did best: it would be worth $29,260 today (29.3x). The weakest was AMC Entertainment at $78.37. 55 of 113 beat the S&P 500 ($2,103).

$1,000 at the start of 2023, worth today

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

#	Investment	Worth today	Multiple	Per year
1	Palantir	$29,260	29.3x	+146%
2	NVIDIA	$15,889	15.9x	+109%
3	Robinhood	$14,384	14.4x	+104%
4	Solana	$11,907	11.9x	+94%
5	MicroStrategy	$10,667	10.7x	+88%
6	CrowdStrike	$10,176	10.2x	+86%
7	AMD	$9,490	9.49x	+82%
8	Cloudflare	$8,188	8.19x	+75%
9	Broadcom	$6,747	6.75x	+66%
10	TSMC	$6,518	6.52x	+65%
11	TRON	$6,144	6.14x	+62%
12	Spotify	$6,028	6.03x	+62%
13	Meta	$5,964	5.96x	+61%
14	Coinbase	$5,655	5.66x	+59%
15	Palo Alto Networks	$5,611	5.61x	+58%
16	Bitcoin	$5,047	5.05x	+54%
17	Super Micro Computer	$4,891	4.89x	+53%
18	Arm	$4,618	4.62x	+65%
19	Intel	$4,497	4.50x	+49%
20	XRP	$4,389	4.39x	+48%
21	Shopify	$4,155	4.16x	+46%
22	Google	$3,789	3.79x	+43%
23	Roku	$3,751	3.75x	+42%
24	Datadog	$3,725	3.73x	+42%
25	Caterpillar	$3,664	3.66x	+41%
26	SoFi	$3,536	3.54x	+40%
27	ASML	$3,447	3.45x	+39%
28	Eli Lilly	$3,340	3.34x	+38%
29	Tesla	$3,264	3.26x	+37%
30	Citigroup	$3,234	3.23x	+37%
31	Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)	$3,227	3.23x	+37%
32	Bitcoin Cash	$3,176	3.18x	+36%
33	Stellar	$3,138	3.14x	+36%
34	BNB	$3,070	3.07x	+35%
35	ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)	$2,961	2.96x	+34%
36	Goldman Sachs	$2,895	2.90x	+33%
37	Amazon	$2,874	2.87x	+33%
38	Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)	$2,850	2.85x	+32%
39	Uber	$2,735	2.74x	+31%
40	JPMorgan	$2,681	2.68x	+30%
41	Apple	$2,673	2.67x	+30%
42	Chainlink	$2,637	2.64x	+30%
43	Morgan Stanley	$2,530	2.53x	+28%
44	General Motors	$2,471	2.47x	+27%
45	Cisco	$2,471	2.47x	+27%
46	Snowflake	$2,438	2.44x	+27%
47	Netflix	$2,383	2.38x	+26%
48	Walmart	$2,329	2.33x	+25%
49	Gold	$2,311	2.31x	+25%
50	Ethereum	$2,239	2.24x	+24%
51	Gold ETF (GLD)	$2,238	2.24x	+24%
52	Microsoft	$2,175	2.18x	+23%
53	Costco	$2,135	2.13x	+22%
54	Wells Fargo	$2,117	2.12x	+22%
55	Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)	$2,110	2.11x	+22%
56	S&P 500 ETF (SPY)	$2,104	2.10x	+22%
57	S&P 500 (index fund)	$2,103	2.10x	+22%
58	Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)	$2,071	2.07x	+21%
59	Booking Holdings	$2,044	2.04x	+21%
60	Texas Instruments	$1,922	1.92x	+19%
61	Qualcomm	$1,867	1.87x	+18%
62	AbbVie	$1,853	1.85x	+18%
63	Airbnb	$1,849	1.85x	+18%
64	Visa	$1,815	1.82x	+17%
65	Bank of America	$1,803	1.80x	+17%
66	IBM	$1,769	1.77x	+16%
67	Oracle	$1,725	1.72x	+16%
68	ExxonMobil	$1,713	1.71x	+15%
69	Salesforce	$1,704	1.70x	+15%
70	ServiceNow	$1,685	1.69x	+15%
71	Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)	$1,682	1.68x	+15%
72	Johnson & Johnson	$1,671	1.67x	+15%
73	Mastercard	$1,662	1.66x	+15%
74	Dow Jones ETF (DIA)	$1,649	1.65x	+14%
75	Berkshire Hathaway	$1,621	1.62x	+14%
76	Sony	$1,550	1.55x	+12%
77	Coca-Cola	$1,539	1.54x	+12%
78	Merck	$1,502	1.50x	+11%
79	Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)	$1,497	1.50x	+11%
80	Roblox	$1,479	1.48x	+11%
81	Verizon	$1,473	1.47x	+11%
82	Ford	$1,384	1.38x	+9.1%
83	GameStop	$1,381	1.38x	+9%
84	Chevron	$1,370	1.37x	+8.8%
85	Dogecoin	$1,341	1.34x	+8.1%
86	Zoom	$1,325	1.33x	+7.8%
87	Alibaba	$1,245	1.24x	+6%
88	Disney	$1,222	1.22x	+5.5%
89	Target	$1,176	1.18x	+4.4%
90	Chipotle	$1,163	1.16x	+4.1%
91	Procter & Gamble	$1,079	1.08x	+2.1%
92	Avalanche	$1,048	1.05x	+1.3%
93	Starbucks	$1,036	1.04x	+1%
94	Lowe's	$1,014	1.01x	+0.4%
95	Home Depot	$1,005	1.01x	+0.1%
96	Cardano	$990.83	0.99x	−0.2%
97	McDonald's	$967.38	0.97x	−0.9%
98	Litecoin	$961.10	0.96x	−1.1%
99	Boeing	$960.54	0.96x	−1.1%
100	Rivian	$863.32	0.86x	−3.8%
101	PepsiCo	$816.04	0.82x	−5.3%
102	Pinterest	$809.96	0.81x	−5.5%
103	UnitedHealth	$778.76	0.78x	−6.5%
104	Comcast	$733.94	0.73x	−7.9%
105	PayPal	$730.61	0.73x	−8%
106	Shiba Inu	$718.75	0.72x	−8.4%
107	Intuit	$705.45	0.71x	−8.9%
108	Pfizer	$700.83	0.70x	−9.1%
109	Adobe	$692.06	0.69x	−9.4%
110	Snap	$603.39	0.60x	−13%
111	Nike	$326.68	0.33x	−26%
112	Lululemon	$299.55	0.30x	−28%
113	Polkadot	$276.69	0.28x	−29%
114	The Trade Desk	$273.74	0.27x	−29%
115	AMC Entertainment	$78.37	0.08x	−49%

During 2023 alone

1Solana+913%
2MicroStrategy+372%
3Coinbase+367%
4Avalanche+254%
5Super Micro Computer+240%
6NVIDIA+237%
7Meta+178%
8Chainlink+168%
9Bitcoin+167%
10Bitcoin Cash+167%
11Palantir+159%
12Cardano+141%
13CrowdStrike+139%
14Spotify+131%
15Uber+130%
16Tesla+130%
17Roku+119%
18AMD+116%
19SoFi+114%
20Palo Alto Networks+109%
21Shopify+107%
22Broadcom+101%
23TRON+98%
24Ethereum+97%
25Polkadot+90%
26Salesforce+90%
27Cloudflare+84%
28Intel+83%
29Snap+82%
30XRP+82%
31Stellar+81%
32ServiceNow+78%
33Amazon+75%
34Adobe+72%
35Booking Holdings+71%
36ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)+67%
37Eli Lilly+64%
38Chipotle+64%
39The Trade Desk+60%
40Datadog+60%
41Netflix+59%
42Airbnb+58%
43Pinterest+58%
44Lululemon+56%
45Microsoft+56%
46Google+56%
47Intuit+55%
48Roblox+54%
49Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)+53%
50Robinhood+53%
51Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)+50%
52Apple+49%
53Costco+48%
54TSMC+40%
55Snowflake+40%
56Qualcomm+34%
57ASML+32%
58JPMorgan+31%
59Dogecoin+30%
60Boeing+29%
61BNB+27%
62S&P 500 (index fund)+26%
63Comcast+26%
64Oracle+26%
65Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)+26%
66S&P 500 ETF (SPY)+26%
67Visa+26%
68Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)+26%
69Caterpillar+25%
70Shiba Inu+25%
71Sony+23%
72Mastercard+22%
73Wells Fargo+22%
74Rivian+22%
75Citigroup+21%
76IBM+20%
77Berkshire Hathaway+17%
78Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)+17%
79Dow Jones ETF (DIA)+16%
80Goldman Sachs+16%
81Ford+15%
82McDonald's+15%
83Morgan Stanley+14%
84Gold+13%
85Walmart+13%
86Home Depot+12%
87Lowe's+12%
88Gold ETF (GLD)+11%
89Cisco+8.6%
90Arm+8.4%
91General Motors+7.7%
92Texas Instruments+7%
93UnitedHealth+5.6%
94Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)+5.5%
95Merck+4.7%
96Bank of America+4.3%
97Litecoin+4.2%
98Verizon+4%
99Zoom+3.7%
100AbbVie+2.4%
101Disney+2.3%
102Procter & Gamble+0.6%
103ExxonMobil−0.6%
104PepsiCo−0.9%
105Coca-Cola−2%
106Target−2.6%
107GameStop−3.1%
108Starbucks−5.2%
109Johnson & Johnson−7.5%
110Nike−9.1%
111Chevron−11%
112PayPal−18%
113Alibaba−18%
114Pfizer−39%
115AMC Entertainment−84%

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