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A lot has been said about the biggest percent gainers since the March 9th low, but what about the biggest money makers. Let's face it, when banks were at risk of government abduction and the market was blind sided by the January and February declines, it was tough to pull the trigger on big purchases of BAC at $3 or Citi below $1.
Below we look at the market from a different view, if you had bought 1,000 shares of any S&P 500 stock what would have been the big winner? It turns out that a purchase of 1,000 shares of Google at the 3/9 close has returned $226,650 through the 10/7 close; far and away the biggest winner. There are only seven S&P stocks that are down since the market bottomed.
Good info, but wouldn't "percentage gain" be more helpful? Yes, GOOG had a nice 70%+ gain, but ISRG gained 163%, yet it was ranked second.
Posted by: Yardman | October 08, 2009 at 01:51 PM
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Posted by: Papers on Research | October 09, 2009 at 07:36 AM
Useless information. Of course google would have made $226,650, but would have required an investment of $290,890 to buy 1,000 shares!
Posted by: Whats the Point | October 09, 2009 at 11:42 AM
What's the point of this?
Silly chart. Look at % instead.
Posted by: c | October 14, 2009 at 04:30 PM