If you are a long term investor, you often want to know which companies total returns were the best or the worst in a time period. In this post, we will ask the question, what are the best and worst 25 companies/stocks from S&P 500 index in terms of their total returns in the last 3 years.
Distribution of total returns of S&P 500 companies in the last 3 years
First let us look at the distribution of the total return in the last 3 year period for companies in S&P 500 index.
Yes, 3 years is a bit arbitrary. If you are interested in the performance of top 25 companies in S&P 500 in this year, check out here.
25 S&P 500 stocks with Best and Worst total returns in the last 3 years
In the last years, Super Micro Computer stock has the highest total returns with a whopping 1029% gain, followed by Nvidia with the total returns of 374%.
Moderna and Walgreens are at the bottom of the table with the worst total returns of -83% for Moderna and -80% for Walgreens. If you are one of the unfortunate ones invest in Moderna three years ago, you would have lost 83% of the amount you invested.
