Best Investments Since 2025: What $1,000 Became Today
Of 114 stocks, funds and cryptos, $1,000 in Intel at the start of 2025 did best: it would be worth $5,740 today (5.74x). The weakest was The Trade Desk at $105.28. 41 of 114 beat the S&P 500 ($1,333).
$1,000 at the start of 2025, worth today
Stocks and the S&P 500 row include reinvested dividends.
| # | Investment | Worth today | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intel | $5,740 | 5.74x |
| 2 | AMD | $5,035 | 5.03x |
| 3 | Cloudflare | $3,130 | 3.13x |
| 4 | CrowdStrike | $3,019 | 3.02x |
| 5 | Robinhood | $2,929 | 2.93x |
| 6 | ASML | $2,651 | 2.65x |
| 7 | Palantir | $2,471 | 2.47x |
| 8 | Caterpillar | $2,344 | 2.34x |
| 9 | TSMC | $2,324 | 2.32x |
| 10 | Arm | $2,303 | 2.30x |
| 11 | Palo Alto Networks | $2,144 | 2.14x |
| 12 | Snowflake | $2,103 | 2.10x |
| 13 | Roku | $2,036 | 2.04x |
| 14 | Citigroup | $1,953 | 1.95x |
| 15 | Johnson & Johnson | $1,943 | 1.94x |
| 16 | Cisco | $1,887 | 1.89x |
| 17 | Datadog | $1,870 | 1.87x |
| 18 | $1,777 | 1.78x | |
| 19 | NVIDIA | $1,649 | 1.65x |
| 20 | Goldman Sachs | $1,646 | 1.65x |
| 21 | Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT) | $1,622 | 1.62x |
| 22 | Morgan Stanley | $1,614 | 1.61x |
| 23 | Gold | $1,601 | 1.60x |
| 24 | General Motors | $1,594 | 1.59x |
| 25 | Merck | $1,593 | 1.59x |
| 26 | ExxonMobil | $1,591 | 1.59x |
| 27 | Texas Instruments | $1,584 | 1.58x |
| 28 | ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) | $1,568 | 1.57x |
| 29 | Gold ETF (GLD) | $1,559 | 1.56x |
| 30 | AbbVie | $1,557 | 1.56x |
| 31 | Broadcom | $1,555 | 1.56x |
| 32 | Eli Lilly | $1,541 | 1.54x |
| 33 | Chevron | $1,496 | 1.50x |
| 34 | Coca-Cola | $1,475 | 1.48x |
| 35 | Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ) | $1,459 | 1.46x |
| 36 | JPMorgan | $1,432 | 1.43x |
| 37 | Ford | $1,419 | 1.42x |
| 38 | Shopify | $1,373 | 1.37x |
| 39 | Super Micro Computer | $1,369 | 1.37x |
| 40 | Apple | $1,361 | 1.36x |
| 41 | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) | $1,335 | 1.34x |
| 42 | S&P 500 ETF (SPY) | $1,333 | 1.33x |
| 43 | S&P 500 (index fund) | $1,333 | 1.33x |
| 44 | Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) | $1,325 | 1.32x |
| 45 | TRON | $1,319 | 1.32x |
| 46 | Alibaba | $1,303 | 1.30x |
| 47 | Bank of America | $1,290 | 1.29x |
| 48 | Verizon | $1,288 | 1.29x |
| 49 | Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD) | $1,284 | 1.28x |
| 50 | Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) | $1,284 | 1.28x |
| 51 | Qualcomm | $1,254 | 1.25x |
| 52 | Dow Jones ETF (DIA) | $1,242 | 1.24x |
| 53 | Microsoft | $1,230 | 1.23x |
| 54 | Meta | $1,228 | 1.23x |
| 55 | Target | $1,223 | 1.22x |
| 56 | Pfizer | $1,215 | 1.21x |
| 57 | Walmart | $1,207 | 1.21x |
| 58 | Airbnb | $1,195 | 1.19x |
| 59 | Wells Fargo | $1,192 | 1.19x |
| 60 | Visa | $1,182 | 1.18x |
| 61 | Rivian | $1,136 | 1.14x |
| 62 | SoFi | $1,128 | 1.13x |
| 63 | Amazon | $1,122 | 1.12x |
| 64 | Berkshire Hathaway | $1,115 | 1.11x |
| 65 | Sony | $1,112 | 1.11x |
| 66 | Uber | $1,095 | 1.09x |
| 67 | Mastercard | $1,093 | 1.09x |
| 68 | Boeing | $1,092 | 1.09x |
| 69 | Starbucks | $1,084 | 1.08x |
| 70 | Zoom | $1,083 | 1.08x |
| 71 | BNB | $1,078 | 1.08x |
| 72 | Spotify | $1,072 | 1.07x |
| 73 | IBM | $1,051 | 1.05x |
| 74 | Costco | $1,026 | 1.03x |
| 75 | Disney | $965.85 | 0.97x |
| 76 | Procter & Gamble | $937.29 | 0.94x |
| 77 | Tesla | $931.98 | 0.93x |
| 78 | PepsiCo | $918.74 | 0.92x |
| 79 | Bitcoin | $893.96 | 0.89x |
| 80 | $862.34 | 0.86x | |
| 81 | Oracle | $848.88 | 0.85x |
| 82 | Booking Holdings | $835.29 | 0.84x |
| 83 | McDonald's | $834.52 | 0.83x |
| 84 | Ethereum | $804.68 | 0.80x |
| 85 | Netflix | $791.98 | 0.79x |
| 86 | Lowe's | $786.45 | 0.79x |
| 87 | Home Depot | $779.16 | 0.78x |
| 88 | UnitedHealth | $773.53 | 0.77x |
| 89 | GameStop | $766.80 | 0.77x |
| 90 | AMC Entertainment | $758.71 | 0.76x |
| 91 | Coinbase | $732.69 | 0.73x |
| 92 | Chainlink | $732.36 | 0.73x |
| 93 | XRP | $713.52 | 0.71x |
| 94 | Bitcoin Cash | $710.25 | 0.71x |
| 95 | Roblox | $702.33 | 0.70x |
| 96 | Salesforce | $691.74 | 0.69x |
| 97 | Stellar | $672.88 | 0.67x |
| 98 | Comcast | $661.22 | 0.66x |
| 99 | Litecoin | $656.23 | 0.66x |
| 100 | PayPal | $632.23 | 0.63x |
| 101 | Solana | $630.79 | 0.63x |
| 102 | ServiceNow | $616.45 | 0.62x |
| 103 | $602.84 | 0.60x | |
| 104 | Chipotle | $535.40 | 0.54x |
| 105 | Adobe | $526.83 | 0.53x |
| 106 | MicroStrategy | $512.52 | 0.51x |
| 107 | Nike | $510.62 | 0.51x |
| 108 | Snap | $471.09 | 0.47x |
| 109 | Intuit | $434.49 | 0.43x |
| 110 | Avalanche | $318.04 | 0.32x |
| 111 | Dogecoin | $298.57 | 0.30x |
| 112 | Cardano | $290.19 | 0.29x |
| 113 | Shiba Inu | $275.71 | 0.28x |
| 114 | Lululemon | $260.05 | 0.26x |
| 115 | Polkadot | $180.08 | 0.18x |
| 116 | The Trade Desk | $105.28 | 0.11x |
During 2025 alone
- 1Robinhood+192%
- 2Palantir+123%
- 3Intel+95%
- 4SoFi+94%
- 5Alibaba+86%
- 6AMD+85%
- 7Citigroup+74%
- 8Cloudflare+74%
- 9Caterpillar+69%
- 10ASML+68%
- 11Google+66%
- 12Gold+65%
- 13Gold ETF (GLD)+62%
- 14Goldman Sachs+62%
- 15TSMC+61%
- 16General Motors+59%
- 17Broadcom+51%
- 18Morgan Stanley+50%
- 19Ford+48%
- 20Johnson & Johnson+48%
- 21Rivian+46%
- 22Shopify+46%
- 23Roku+46%
- 24Reddit+46%
- 25Eli Lilly+40%
- 26Wells Fargo+39%
- 27Bitcoin Cash+38%
- 28ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK)+38%
- 29Snowflake+38%
- 30Roblox+38%
- 31JPMorgan+37%
- 32NVIDIA+36%
- 33IBM+36%
- 34Cisco+33%
- 35Boeing+33%
- 36AbbVie+32%
- 37Uber+31%
- 38CrowdStrike+31%
- 39Bank of America+29%
- 40Walmart+26%
- 41Spotify+26%
- 42BNB+23%
- 43Sony+23%
- 44Vanguard Tech ETF (VGT)+22%
- 45Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ)+21%
- 46Oracle+19%
- 47ExxonMobil+18%
- 48Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)+18%
- 49S&P 500 ETF (SPY)+18%
- 50S&P 500 (index fund)+18%
- 51Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)+18%
- 52Dow Jones ETF (DIA)+16%
- 53Tesla+16%
- 54Qualcomm+15%
- 55Coca-Cola+15%
- 56Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)+14%
- 57Microsoft+13%
- 58TRON+12%
- 59Merck+11%
- 60Apple+11%
- 61Chevron+11%
- 62Visa+11%
- 63Berkshire Hathaway+10%
- 64Booking Holdings+8.9%
- 65Meta+8.6%
- 66Mastercard+8.4%
- 67Verizon+7.7%
- 68McDonald's+6.1%
- 69Schwab Dividend ETF (SCHD)+5.7%
- 70Super Micro Computer+3%
- 71Amazon+2.9%
- 72Netflix+2.6%
- 73Zoom+2.1%
- 74Disney+2.1%
- 75Lowe's+2%
- 76Intuit+1.7%
- 77Pfizer+1.4%
- 78Airbnb+1.2%
- 79Palo Alto Networks−0.8%
- 80PepsiCo−1.5%
- 81Texas Instruments−2%
- 82Costco−5.6%
- 83Bitcoin−6.3%
- 84Starbucks−6.5%
- 85Datadog−6.9%
- 86Coinbase−8%
- 87Home Depot−8.8%
- 88Arm−11%
- 89Ethereum−11%
- 90Nike−12%
- 91Procter & Gamble−12%
- 92XRP−12%
- 93Pinterest−13%
- 94Comcast−18%
- 95Salesforce−23%
- 96Target−24%
- 97Adobe−24%
- 98Litecoin−26%
- 99Snap−28%
- 100ServiceNow−30%
- 101UnitedHealth−32%
- 102PayPal−32%
- 103GameStop−33%
- 104Solana−34%
- 105Chipotle−37%
- 106Chainlink−39%
- 107Stellar−39%
- 108Lululemon−43%
- 109MicroStrategy−48%
- 110AMC Entertainment−60%
- 111Cardano−61%
- 112Dogecoin−63%
- 113Avalanche−66%
- 114Shiba Inu−67%
- 115The Trade Desk−68%
- 116Polkadot−73%
Start-of-year prices; current prices refresh hourly. Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.