If you had invested $1,000 in any of these top performers, you would have over $200,000 today!

Answer: 

1. NVIDIA (NVDA)
2. Netflix (NFLX)
3. Texas Pacific Land (TPL)
4. Apple (AAPL)
5. Booking Holdings (BKNG)

Questions:

1. Of the top 15 companies, which are you familiar with?
2. What factors drive up a stock’s prices?
3. If you had invested $1000 in Apple 20 years ago, approximately how much would it be worth today?
4. A common disclaimer is “past performance does not guarantee future results”. Why might a company’s stock perform poorly, even if it performed well in the past?

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Behind the numbers (Bespoke):

"AI chip maker NVIDIA (NVDA) has easily been the best-performing stock over the last twenty years, and it has made a large number of investors extremely wealthy. Incredibly, a $1,000 investment in NVDA twenty years ago would have almost turned you into a millionaire today! Unbelievably, $1,000 in NVDA back on 11/25/04 would be worth roughly $944k today. (By the same math, $10k would be worth $9.44 million, while $100k would be worth $94.4 million.)

Twenty-year returns for streaming giant Netflix (NFLX) haven't been too shabby either. $1,000 in NFLX twenty years ago would be worth more than $550k today. Rounding out the top five are Texas Pacific Land (TPL), Apple (AAPL), and Booking Holdings (BKNG).

In total, eight stocks have turned $1,000 into more than $100k over the last twenty years. This includes the aforementioned NVDA, NFLX, TPL, AAPL, and BKNG along with Monster Beverage (MNST), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), and Amazon.com (AMZN)."

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