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Re:Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures by m463 on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:46PM (#39183146)
Home Depot stock has been very lucrative. Take a look at the historical values.
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Re:Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures by missedthecue on Monday January 29, 2024 @05:00PM (#39183321)
Home Depot is the best performing stock in the S&P500 going back to 1981
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Re:Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures by throwaway2037 on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:27PM (#39184750)
Literally, I Googled for:

    best performing stock in the S&P500 going back to 1981
The best I could find:

    Home Depot (HD) had the highest return in 1981 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 66.9%. [1]
I think you are mistaken: That was the best single year return in 1981.

It is not easy to find a single stock with the highest return since 1981. The best I could find was 20 years: Monster (energy drinks) [2]

Other research shows the highest single year return on a stock ever was Qualcomm: +2620% in 1999 [3]

[1] https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/best-performing-stocks-in...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/sp-500-stock-has-the-highest...

[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-sp-500-stocks-by-annual...

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Re:Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures by missedthecue on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:03AM (#39187185)
Home depot has returned over a million percent since 1981.

Compare that to Apple who is up about 150,000% since IPO and less since their S&P inclusion.

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