Best 10 year stock market returns as of 29/12/2023

Investing shouldn't be about looking back at past performance but, lets face it, everybody loves a bit of hindsight investing.

Crunching the numbers for the past 10 year stock price increases for S&P500, DAX & FTSE 100 stocks, this article provides info on who the top 20 performing stocks were during this period.

Sector winners - Semiconductors

There's a lot of talk about the 'magnificent 7' S&P500 stocks. Of these, Nvidia and Tesla are surprisingly the only 2 to have made it. When most people think of successful tech firms they typically think of eCommerce companies like Amazon or Software companies like Microsoft, but it seems as was the case in the American Gold Rush, it's the companies making the spades (or semiconductors in this case) who are really coining it.

But some 'dull' stocks are still shiny

Perhaps even more surprisingly, some stocks doing the boring offline stuff e.g. Builders Firstsource and Old Dominion Freight Line are top stock market performers. You're forgiven for not selecting those.

Europe continues to struggle to keep up

Less surprisingly, 18 of the 20 top performers in the last 10 years are S&P 500 stocks, with the UK's JD Sports and Germany's Sartorius Group being the only European stocks to have made it in.

Top 20 Stocks