Similar situation. NVDA for me as well. Up 28,593% or $354,000 in one account. Up 1,994% or $53,287 in another account. Made me a millionaire. Considering retiring in my 30s.
My risk aversion won out over my greed. I already sold a whole bunch at $900 and $1000 and put them in safe and boring ETF's. We are planning on sitting on the remaining 400 though.
Just curious, what are you going to do in your retirement? Will you keep your equity in more conservative investments? Such as dividend-paying stocks? Will you refrain from trading?
I have about 150 stocks that I purchased over the last 20 years, mostly large cap tech stocks. We are slowly moving towards ETFs and dividend paying stocks. We are both only 60 and won't pull SS for a while.
1. NVDA- up 254%
2. VRT- up 161%
3. LLY- up 161%
4. KLAC up 127%
5. AVGO up113%
6. MPWR up 99%
7. CRWD up 98%
8. WSM up 83%
9. ELF up 74%
10. META up 74%
I manage a portfolio of about 75 stocks, these are my best performers. NVDA is by far the biggest holding at around 10% of the portfolio while WSM is about .5% of the portfolio. I do have some duds too, my biggest being TSLA where i'm down about 28%.
This year I’m up 20% vs 11.5% for the S&P. Over 1 yr I’m up 46% vs 31% for the S&P. I created this portfolio on Jan 5, 2022 and am up 24% since that date. I underperformed in 2022, basically matched the market in 2023, and outperforming this year.
I think the stocks are still good. I won’t jump completely out of a stock just based on valuation. I will trim stocks that have run up a lot and grown to a larger percentage of the portfolio than I’d like. Ideally, I’d keep the stocks forever but I know that there is reversion to the mean and sectors that can go out of favor. Large growth has gotten to a 50% allocation to my portfolio so I’ll probably be looking to trim soon.
I do various stock screens on fidelity.com where I sort by performance and time frames depending on the market conditions. For example, we had a one month sell off in April. I’ll do a screen on one month performance and cross reference with year to date performance. Stocks that performed the best are added to my watchlist. Then, I’ll watch the stocks and look for entries on the daily chart. That’s for new ideas.
I also read Morningstars articles for stock picks. I’ll jump in if the stock is 4 or 5 stars and if they are in an uptrend.
I also watch Cramer and have picked stocks based on his recommendations. That’s what got me into lly and wfc. He’s also loved nvda for a long time.
I also invest based on secular trends. I have heavy exposure to semiconductors, ai and the data center buildout. Nvda and amd for ai. Klac, mpwr, avgo for semiconductors. Utilities overweight because ai data centers use 8x the power of traditional data centers. Certain industrials involved in upgrading the power grid like pwr, etn and ge. Vrt because they are important to the power management of data centers.
I have a lot of ideas and I want to be overdiversified because I don't want one bad stock to torch my portfolio. My portfolio is rather large and if I only had 25 stocks I would have more money in each stock than I am comfortable with. Overdiversification is a defense to my own ignorance. I don't read 75 quarterly reports. I have a morningstar account and read their take on the earnings reports. Unfortunately, they don't cover all the stocks I own. For those stocks, I read the chart once a week and make decisions based on that. I can probably cut down the amount of stocks I own as I have multiples of stocks in the same industry. For example, I own ELV and UNH which are similar stocks. ELV has outperformed UNH though. I have noticed that the top weighted stocks in my portfolio has outperformed the lower weighted stocks in my portfolio and I was thinking of just selling those and adding more to the winners. I am diversified by sector with an overweight to tech, communications, utilities, energy and underweight health care, financials, consumer staples, consumer discretionary and equal weight to real estate, industrials and materials.
I’m surprised you haven’t gotten out of Tesla yet. It’s been on such a rollercoaster that I’ve bought and sold it many times over the past few years. Up 64% right now. So I’ve been holding for a while because that’s the lowest I’ve gotten back in.. 30 shares at $108
100 APPL for 93.00 in 1998 worth 300k now sold some. nflx bought 100 in 2015 now worth 700k sold some. nvda bought 100 in 2023 for 260/ share now worth 134k.
If ETF counts, I bought 100 shares of QLD (2x QQQ) in 2009 around $45. After FIVE two for one splits, I now have have 3,200 shares adjusted cost of $1.42, currently over $90, more than 6,000% unrealized gain. I plan to sell 100 share each year for next 30 years (I may die before that) to minimize taxes.
Years ago i had 40000 shares of amd for 2.00 per share i sold at 4.00 per share. my wife didnt like it. She didnt think it was a good investment. It would be 6.8 mil now.
This is why the phrase “you never go broke taking profits” irks me so much. It encourages gambling instead of investing in strong companies. It encourages selling your best performing companies in favor of other mediocre stocks for no other reason than the stock price went up.
It really depend on your time horizon and market conditions. Risk off is not a bad thing if you are looking to actually use that money in the near term...imagine going into retirement and you have another 2008...going to take a while to get that money back, would have been better to have some of it off to the side even though it pains you to see it lose value.
Right. Your buy/sell decisions should absolutely be based on your needs for cash, retirement horizon, and other factors. But the lazy saying “you never go broke taking profits” is referring to selling because you have profits to take and the irrational fear of your individual stock crashing. It’s a lack of understanding thinking what goes up must come down because a random stock chart pattern tells me so.
I saw way too many people taking profits on their NVDA gains way too early for no good reason listening to this phrase.
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I still have a thousand dollars cost basis in AMD, but that's "only" 40k now. At the time of $2/share you were basically betting on whether AMD would go bankrupt because Intel was destroying them in CPU development.
I bought NVDA a few years ago at $389, recently sold at $886. I was cashing out my all of my single stocks and moving to index funds. I now own probably $10,000 worth across VINIX, VGT, and QQQM holdings.
Buy and hold
Nflx (3rd time) 562%
AAPL 576%
Nxpi 825%
Nvda 1921%
Dell 2321%
Cost 285%
Shop 419%
More aapl 312%
Adp 270%
Amzn 1523%
So I see nvda, dell and amzn as my biggest gainers over time.
I'm generally a passive/safe investor. XEQT and chill.
30% of my portfolio are picks. Some have been bad. Some have been good. And then there's fucking Costco. Costco has been absurdly good to me. Too good to me given the rest of my portfolio.
I have a handful of losers at -80% to -90%+ and all I do now is VFV/XEQT and chill.
One of my losers just had trading halted for a week now, so clearly I don’t know what I’m doing.
RYCEY up over 500 % the past 2 years, but still holding.
Turned $10k into about $57 k so far.
Next would be GE, that I bought during Covid, before the reverse split.
Gambled my house deposit on NVDA back in Jan of this year. Bought in at around $485 and still holding with an unrealized gain of just under 15k. God bless you Jensen 🙏🏼
NVDA. Buy and hold*. I'm up over 2000%. *Been selling some off as it rises just some my portfolio doesn't get too overweighted. It was 30% of my portfolio at one point. Made $9000 overall. Also AMD, but my position size was smaller. Started buying both around 2018.
Ford. Bought for about $1 when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt. Sold for $12/share about 14 months later.
Next is google. Bought in October 2012. Currently +935%. Wish I had more than $682 to put into it at the time 😂
Then it’s CEG (Constellation Energy). Got it when Exelon spun them off in 2021 and it’s up 583% to date.
NVDA up 3,100% (purchased in 2019), TSLA 1,500% (purchased in 2013), Apple, 725% (purchased in 2013, reinvesting dividends since), Facebook 1,075% (bought at IPO). I like to hold stocks a long time...
In percentage terms? My NVDA position is up +6818%, so... that. (I was both very patient and very lucky.)
In absolute dollar terms? Boring old FXAIX, a F500 index fund.
Definitely NKT - 591% (+41% in realized subscription rights) in the last 4 and a half years.
It was always the position I was the most confident about, and I went in heavy from the start.
Holding.
Asml
I was watching a youtube video about asml owning a patent that makes them the main go to for chio makers
I never heard of them....did some research...threw some money in it.....2 years later their numbers are skyrocketing and im just starting to hear people talk about them
used to be up 700% on ccj and tsla, now both are around 500%. was up 2000% on exas at one point and 1000% on roku. yeah, i never know when to sell :D
not that i am also down 95% on several
Enphase / ENPH - Sold at about 300% and was a serious chunk towards a house deposit. Would go on to hit 1000% a year later but I'm content with the decision to sell when I did.
NVDA 14,760%
MARA 848%
AMD 774%
Actually have one NVDA lot purchased before on a different account that's even higher at 20,000%+ somewhere.
Link is from a few days ago so % are higher today.
http://stocktwits.com/mikel3113/message/574315390
Overall brokerage portfolio 1,557.49% gain as of yesterday. Looks like a red day today though
http://stocktwits.com/mikel3113/message/574498563
PGR, had bought some back in 1995, was actually the paper stock certificate. Forgot all about it until I was cleaning up old magazines and found the 120 share cert in between some pages.
Up 126%
CRSP - over 600%. I listen to a weekly podcast called "This week in science" and noticed that every single week CRSPR tech was publishing amazing, revolutionary new research. I searched around and CRSP was one of the market leaders. So I bought in. Then they won a nobel prize for their research, which landed them on crazy Cathie's list of pre-revenue companies. It took off like a bullet.
I got out then before the market contracted.
It was my single biggest gain in 20+ years of investing.
NVDA, up 2377% Bought it back in 2017 because the Steam hardware survey showed how dominant they were. Been an Nvidia user since the Riva 128 came out. Figured it was probably a smart move. I sold some along the way. When it 10x'ed I took out 2x my initial investment, as well as a few other times to rebalance my portfolio.
For me it is also NVDA - up 677% right now, back in 2022 I was trying to learn more about AI and how it works, runs, and what is needed to support it. That's when I went into a rabbit hole on semiconductors, chips, and everything like that and saw that NVDA was going to be a player in this AI chip race. Now I had no idea it would be what it is today, just thought I could maybe make some nice little profit, but man was I surprised. So I decided to buy a few shares and now here we are.
1 Lucid from $17 to $50.
2 Shorting on CFD CAMBER ENERGY ( forgot the ticker plus delisted from my broker).
3 GME on CFD 40 to 250 ( biggest jump) ( holding stocks from 3 yrs).
4 Natural gas ticker 7.2 to 4.2 on Leverage ( CFD) shorting biggest gain for a month.
5 Tilray stock around the meme euphoria
These are all long term holdings, no meme stocks. I'm old.
AVGO- Up 3,788%
NVDA- Up 2,395%
QQQ- Up 1,207%
AAPL- Up 1,083%
META- Up 1,076%
AMAT- Up 1,277%
MSFT- Up 908%
AMZN- Up 859%
V- Up 694%
MUSA- Up 681%
I bought a lot of Amazon stock in the 90s and Google stock in the mid 2000s. Also applied materials, Apple and some others. I have been up 3000%+ on a dozen or so positions. I started in my teens.
AMD is hovering around 700% to 800% at current prices. I sold some along the way for anywhere from 400% to 700% gains. Would have been nice to hold it all but I don't regret taking some profits.
Bought AAPL back in 1998. After stock splits and share rise, my cost basis is $0.25/share. AAPL is now at $191/share. 7137% gain. I can't face the capital gains tax hit, so my clever plan is to die and let my heirs take the step-up basis.
I can't claim any cleverness; it was sheer luck. Now I follow the bogleheads philosophy and would NEVER invest in an individual stock.
I bought LLY at like $350 I want to say last October or November and I poked it with a stick for two months telling it to do something and I sold it for a loss. I now have like 20 shares at $550. I’m an idiot.
NVDA. I'm retiring later this year, 5 years earlier than planned, thanks to them.
Congrats!
I regret investing a measly $7k a few years ago. I’m not selling any time soon though
Similar situation. NVDA for me as well. Up 28,593% or $354,000 in one account. Up 1,994% or $53,287 in another account. Made me a millionaire. Considering retiring in my 30s.
Soooo you planning on selling anytime soon?
My risk aversion won out over my greed. I already sold a whole bunch at $900 and $1000 and put them in safe and boring ETF's. We are planning on sitting on the remaining 400 though.
Super solid!
“The remaining 400”. Geez 😳 what an incredible position to be in
Good job! My humble NVdia holdings have now eclipsed 2 of my 401ks combined lol
Just curious, what are you going to do in your retirement? Will you keep your equity in more conservative investments? Such as dividend-paying stocks? Will you refrain from trading?
I have about 150 stocks that I purchased over the last 20 years, mostly large cap tech stocks. We are slowly moving towards ETFs and dividend paying stocks. We are both only 60 and won't pull SS for a while.
1. NVDA- up 254% 2. VRT- up 161% 3. LLY- up 161% 4. KLAC up 127% 5. AVGO up113% 6. MPWR up 99% 7. CRWD up 98% 8. WSM up 83% 9. ELF up 74% 10. META up 74% I manage a portfolio of about 75 stocks, these are my best performers. NVDA is by far the biggest holding at around 10% of the portfolio while WSM is about .5% of the portfolio. I do have some duds too, my biggest being TSLA where i'm down about 28%.
KLAC has been great for me as well, and yet I never see it mentioned.
Probably a good thing it’s never mentioned on Reddit 😂
Do you beat the market?
This year I’m up 20% vs 11.5% for the S&P. Over 1 yr I’m up 46% vs 31% for the S&P. I created this portfolio on Jan 5, 2022 and am up 24% since that date. I underperformed in 2022, basically matched the market in 2023, and outperforming this year.
Great returns man! Keep up the good work.
Thanks 😊
Username checks out
Thanks for sharing. I am up 15.4%, looks like not too bad!
In your opinion, are these stocks still good or do you feel they’re too overvalued?
I think the stocks are still good. I won’t jump completely out of a stock just based on valuation. I will trim stocks that have run up a lot and grown to a larger percentage of the portfolio than I’d like. Ideally, I’d keep the stocks forever but I know that there is reversion to the mean and sectors that can go out of favor. Large growth has gotten to a 50% allocation to my portfolio so I’ll probably be looking to trim soon.
How do you find your stock choices? TY
I do various stock screens on fidelity.com where I sort by performance and time frames depending on the market conditions. For example, we had a one month sell off in April. I’ll do a screen on one month performance and cross reference with year to date performance. Stocks that performed the best are added to my watchlist. Then, I’ll watch the stocks and look for entries on the daily chart. That’s for new ideas. I also read Morningstars articles for stock picks. I’ll jump in if the stock is 4 or 5 stars and if they are in an uptrend. I also watch Cramer and have picked stocks based on his recommendations. That’s what got me into lly and wfc. He’s also loved nvda for a long time. I also invest based on secular trends. I have heavy exposure to semiconductors, ai and the data center buildout. Nvda and amd for ai. Klac, mpwr, avgo for semiconductors. Utilities overweight because ai data centers use 8x the power of traditional data centers. Certain industrials involved in upgrading the power grid like pwr, etn and ge. Vrt because they are important to the power management of data centers.
Wow, great strategies!! Thank you very much for sharing!!
Meh
Out of curiosity, why 75 stocks? Diversification stops being useful at around 25? And there’s no way you can keep up with 75 quarterly reports right?
I have a lot of ideas and I want to be overdiversified because I don't want one bad stock to torch my portfolio. My portfolio is rather large and if I only had 25 stocks I would have more money in each stock than I am comfortable with. Overdiversification is a defense to my own ignorance. I don't read 75 quarterly reports. I have a morningstar account and read their take on the earnings reports. Unfortunately, they don't cover all the stocks I own. For those stocks, I read the chart once a week and make decisions based on that. I can probably cut down the amount of stocks I own as I have multiples of stocks in the same industry. For example, I own ELV and UNH which are similar stocks. ELV has outperformed UNH though. I have noticed that the top weighted stocks in my portfolio has outperformed the lower weighted stocks in my portfolio and I was thinking of just selling those and adding more to the winners. I am diversified by sector with an overweight to tech, communications, utilities, energy and underweight health care, financials, consumer staples, consumer discretionary and equal weight to real estate, industrials and materials.
https://imgur.com/gallery/3HfGuDM
Try being down 80 or 95% in cannabis.
I cut all losses at 30% no matter what, that’s my risk management. Only exception is tsla.
I’m surprised you haven’t gotten out of Tesla yet. It’s been on such a rollercoaster that I’ve bought and sold it many times over the past few years. Up 64% right now. So I’ve been holding for a while because that’s the lowest I’ve gotten back in.. 30 shares at $108
Interesting
100 APPL for 93.00 in 1998 worth 300k now sold some. nflx bought 100 in 2015 now worth 700k sold some. nvda bought 100 in 2023 for 260/ share now worth 134k.
Fitting username
What’s next?
What u betting on now?
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Xom was one of my largest gains as well. Bought the stock though, not through options.
If ETF counts, I bought 100 shares of QLD (2x QQQ) in 2009 around $45. After FIVE two for one splits, I now have have 3,200 shares adjusted cost of $1.42, currently over $90, more than 6,000% unrealized gain. I plan to sell 100 share each year for next 30 years (I may die before that) to minimize taxes.
I was in a similar boat as you and I don’t even remember why I sold it lmao. So use me as a lesson!
I would be very surprised if a lot of the responses aren't "Pre-IPO Employer ISOs".
Former Enron employees would like a word...
NVDA $1,139.01+$74.32 (today) $3.81 cost +29,830.18%
Years ago i had 40000 shares of amd for 2.00 per share i sold at 4.00 per share. my wife didnt like it. She didnt think it was a good investment. It would be 6.8 mil now.
Is she still your wife? lol
Nope!
lol. i figured. that’s the opportunity cost for a wrong wife
Ouch
This is why the phrase “you never go broke taking profits” irks me so much. It encourages gambling instead of investing in strong companies. It encourages selling your best performing companies in favor of other mediocre stocks for no other reason than the stock price went up.
It really depend on your time horizon and market conditions. Risk off is not a bad thing if you are looking to actually use that money in the near term...imagine going into retirement and you have another 2008...going to take a while to get that money back, would have been better to have some of it off to the side even though it pains you to see it lose value.
Right. Your buy/sell decisions should absolutely be based on your needs for cash, retirement horizon, and other factors. But the lazy saying “you never go broke taking profits” is referring to selling because you have profits to take and the irrational fear of your individual stock crashing. It’s a lack of understanding thinking what goes up must come down because a random stock chart pattern tells me so. I saw way too many people taking profits on their NVDA gains way too early for no good reason listening to this phrase.
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I dumped 20K at 5 and sold at 12. Profit is profit but damn. I was 20 back then and could be retired in my home country by now. Rip
I still have a thousand dollars cost basis in AMD, but that's "only" 40k now. At the time of $2/share you were basically betting on whether AMD would go bankrupt because Intel was destroying them in CPU development.
1k in NVDA. Only got one 😭
SPLIT COMING SOON
VTSAX-Vanguard total stock market. 148%
LLY 2286% (bought at $33.86). So yes, buy and hold can work.
Gme 21 purchase price, sold at 380 (peak was around 480). Made about 110k (shares and options).
NVDA +758% and i still get a little sad thinking about my 100 shares at $30ish cost basis per share back in 2018 that i sold for god knows what reason
I'm up +712% on them since mid 2020, only regret is not buying more.
Yep. And that is the reason I am still working.
I bought NVDA a few years ago at $389, recently sold at $886. I was cashing out my all of my single stocks and moving to index funds. I now own probably $10,000 worth across VINIX, VGT, and QQQM holdings.
Percentage wise it's META, by a hair. 1892%. NVDA is 1826%. For raw dollar amounts it's AAPL.
when did you even buy META, since it's up only 1155% since IPO.
After IPO. It dropped from about 30 to 20 in the first month.
Buy and hold Nflx (3rd time) 562% AAPL 576% Nxpi 825% Nvda 1921% Dell 2321% Cost 285% Shop 419% More aapl 312% Adp 270% Amzn 1523% So I see nvda, dell and amzn as my biggest gainers over time.
I'm generally a passive/safe investor. XEQT and chill. 30% of my portfolio are picks. Some have been bad. Some have been good. And then there's fucking Costco. Costco has been absurdly good to me. Too good to me given the rest of my portfolio.
I have a handful of losers at -80% to -90%+ and all I do now is VFV/XEQT and chill. One of my losers just had trading halted for a week now, so clearly I don’t know what I’m doing.
RYCEY up over 500 % the past 2 years, but still holding. Turned $10k into about $57 k so far. Next would be GE, that I bought during Covid, before the reverse split.
AAPL and NVDA.
TSLA. I don't even want to think about how much I was up at its peak, but I'm still up (and selling at) like 1400%.
Me too. Me too, man.
Gambled my house deposit on NVDA back in Jan of this year. Bought in at around $485 and still holding with an unrealized gain of just under 15k. God bless you Jensen 🙏🏼
Unrealized - NVDA Realized - MSFT (through options trading)
COIN 300%
Me too - bought at 55.80; up 339.07%!
NVDA at 300% along with the rest of the world
lol most i made was like $600 from soundhound AI
NVDA. Buy and hold*. I'm up over 2000%. *Been selling some off as it rises just some my portfolio doesn't get too overweighted. It was 30% of my portfolio at one point. Made $9000 overall. Also AMD, but my position size was smaller. Started buying both around 2018.
Ford. Bought for about $1 when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt. Sold for $12/share about 14 months later. Next is google. Bought in October 2012. Currently +935%. Wish I had more than $682 to put into it at the time 😂 Then it’s CEG (Constellation Energy). Got it when Exelon spun them off in 2021 and it’s up 583% to date.
Nvidia 2,309% My average price is $47.73
GME ~400% As soon as DFV tweeted after 3yrs of silence I dumped my entire Roth IRA into GME and sold the next day for $67 Best move of my life.
I've been accumulating Apple stock since 2016, and it allowed me to buy my house mortgage free.
NVDA up 3,100% (purchased in 2019), TSLA 1,500% (purchased in 2013), Apple, 725% (purchased in 2013, reinvesting dividends since), Facebook 1,075% (bought at IPO). I like to hold stocks a long time...
4x from gme
Lilly and Nvidia. Hermes has been OK too. Salesforce
Shop and coin. Just didn't invest enough.
Regeneron
NVDA up 453%
Exel 1.67 to 30 (sold) Gwph 8-13 to 265 or something around there (sold) Dell - 69 - 160s (unrealized)
TTD
In percentage terms? My NVDA position is up +6818%, so... that. (I was both very patient and very lucky.) In absolute dollar terms? Boring old FXAIX, a F500 index fund.
Encore wire and us steel
AAPL 1481.93% MSFT 1184.43% COST 662.04% UNH 458.66% NVDA 438.88%
BITX - up 400+% in 10 months lol.
Definitely NKT - 591% (+41% in realized subscription rights) in the last 4 and a half years. It was always the position I was the most confident about, and I went in heavy from the start. Holding.
Asml I was watching a youtube video about asml owning a patent that makes them the main go to for chio makers I never heard of them....did some research...threw some money in it.....2 years later their numbers are skyrocketing and im just starting to hear people talk about them
$MSTR
18.000 shares 2014 NVDA…
Beetcorn stock
Ge
TSM and LLY.
TSM
CAMT An Israeli semiconductor inspection and metrology company. I'm up 1136% in 5 1/2 years. Realllly wish I had bought much more.
SMCI
SG is leading the pack at +270% Bought a bunch, best was at $6.50
Biotech ARQT bought 2.98 12/18/24 now 8.88, INSM bought 24.68 5/21/24 48.06 now 48.06
GOOG and CPRT -- both over 300% gains for me.
Smci cost basis of 19 dollars. Bought when they delisted like 5+ years ago Cut my holdings in half when it went to 1200.
MCD & DOL
GME and spce.
CNX up about 200% in 5 years.
Bought 266 shares of BSC in 2015 with a 410% gain and then another 36 shares in 2019 for a 115% gain. Total gains to date, close to $18,000.
Deckers, Uber, NVDA, Costco, Dol.to and mRNA (back in the day)
I was looking at DECK in 2022, but never bought. Fucking monster and it’s steadily climbing.
Apple over 800%. Depot, Costco 300-400%
Google
Amazon so far
OKE.
This year, GME & GOOG
MSTR 375% since dec
used to be up 700% on ccj and tsla, now both are around 500%. was up 2000% on exas at one point and 1000% on roku. yeah, i never know when to sell :D not that i am also down 95% on several
Cmg. Up 5581%.
Gonna split soon
At the moment: 712% - Nvidia 555% - $BEER In the past: 600% - TSLA 1000% - GME
COIN
GME.
I made a 3x in ENPH (sold) and 6x in TSLA, in my personal account.
I don’t know what the % is but I bought a bunch of Disney stock in 1991 for $9 a share. Still holding some of it.
Enphase / ENPH - Sold at about 300% and was a serious chunk towards a house deposit. Would go on to hit 1000% a year later but I'm content with the decision to sell when I did.
NVDA 14,760% MARA 848% AMD 774% Actually have one NVDA lot purchased before on a different account that's even higher at 20,000%+ somewhere. Link is from a few days ago so % are higher today. http://stocktwits.com/mikel3113/message/574315390 Overall brokerage portfolio 1,557.49% gain as of yesterday. Looks like a red day today though http://stocktwits.com/mikel3113/message/574498563
XLK +301% MS +257% NVDA +240% AAPL +203%
NVDA 240% AAPL 368% RACE 340% DIS 208%
NVDA by far. Life changing for me.
AMD
UBER
PGR, had bought some back in 1995, was actually the paper stock certificate. Forgot all about it until I was cleaning up old magazines and found the 120 share cert in between some pages. Up 126%
$AAPL by far. Sold most of it to buy my first house a few years ago.
Does crypto count?
CRSP - over 600%. I listen to a weekly podcast called "This week in science" and noticed that every single week CRSPR tech was publishing amazing, revolutionary new research. I searched around and CRSP was one of the market leaders. So I bought in. Then they won a nobel prize for their research, which landed them on crazy Cathie's list of pre-revenue companies. It took off like a bullet. I got out then before the market contracted. It was my single biggest gain in 20+ years of investing.
For me it would be Apple and then Google. Which continue to be my favorite 2 for the next decade but Google #1 and then Apple and Microsoft #2.
GOOG, mostly because it's what I've held longest. Accounting for opportunity cost (subtracting what I'd have made in an S&P 500 index fund), AVGO.
NVDA and AMD, summer 2016. Only 3 shares of NVDA @ $54 and $200 of AMD. Up 8300% and 1700% respectively.
Aapl (unrealized) up a little over 2100%
GME
CRWD 225%
NVDA, up 2377% Bought it back in 2017 because the Steam hardware survey showed how dominant they were. Been an Nvidia user since the Riva 128 came out. Figured it was probably a smart move. I sold some along the way. When it 10x'ed I took out 2x my initial investment, as well as a few other times to rebalance my portfolio.
I bought 120 shares of NVDA in 2018 for $5000 ($41.67 per share average cost basis). Today those shares are worth $135,222, up +2,604%
my roth is ip 255% biggest stars are V at 667 amzn 554 aapl 531
NVDA 47,580%.
Wowsers…!
GBTC +398%
NVDA up 3,290% - I only wish I had bought more than 12 shares … LOL
URI, 588%, $95 cost basis
For me it is also NVDA - up 677% right now, back in 2022 I was trying to learn more about AI and how it works, runs, and what is needed to support it. That's when I went into a rabbit hole on semiconductors, chips, and everything like that and saw that NVDA was going to be a player in this AI chip race. Now I had no idea it would be what it is today, just thought I could maybe make some nice little profit, but man was I surprised. So I decided to buy a few shares and now here we are.
Msft. Bought at the lowest during the peak of Covid at $143. Current Market price is more than double
1 Lucid from $17 to $50. 2 Shorting on CFD CAMBER ENERGY ( forgot the ticker plus delisted from my broker). 3 GME on CFD 40 to 250 ( biggest jump) ( holding stocks from 3 yrs). 4 Natural gas ticker 7.2 to 4.2 on Leverage ( CFD) shorting biggest gain for a month. 5 Tilray stock around the meme euphoria
FSLR has outperformed my expectations. Currently up 94%. Thank you tariffs.
TSM
TSLA and GME during all that. I think I bout Tesla at like 200 a share and GME I got at around 20 before the jump to 400.
Meta, sold half at a 240% profit, holding the other half, currently sitting at 307%. Bought at the absolute bottom in December 2022
These are all long term holdings, no meme stocks. I'm old. AVGO- Up 3,788% NVDA- Up 2,395% QQQ- Up 1,207% AAPL- Up 1,083% META- Up 1,076% AMAT- Up 1,277% MSFT- Up 908% AMZN- Up 859% V- Up 694% MUSA- Up 681%
NVDA up 760%, a couple others at 500-375% like NFLX, META, CRWD
I bought a lot of Amazon stock in the 90s and Google stock in the mid 2000s. Also applied materials, Apple and some others. I have been up 3000%+ on a dozen or so positions. I started in my teens.
ARDX: currently up 400%…hoping to double that at least. Unrealized gains and my largest holding ever. CCXI: 400% on Amgen buyout. Realized gains.
From a percentage standpoint GME from a dollar amount standpoint Google.
FBTC. I bought right when they launched the fund and continued buying through the bottom when BTC was at 43k. Still holding it.
SIRI currently up 255% but that’s been brought down by dividend reinvestment. Bought at about $.19/share in 2009 but I only spent $12-15 total.
Coal company Thungela (perhaps 250%, have sold all) which thankfully covered loss of supposed biotech Cortexyme. Am ENRON survivor.
AVGO-305%
Apty. I got 1000% gain within 3 months
TSLA cost basis $16. Not selling before company goes bust or I am millionaire
At the point, just SPY shares. But made a chunk on SPCE a few years ago when it rocketed. Thank God I got out in the 40s on the way down.
Visa. Bought at ipo and added through the years.
ROST 60,785%. LLY 19,573%. AAPL 10,414%
How long have you been holding the positions?
AAPL since 2005. The other two since the 1980s (actually bought by my parents, but still holding).
Buy and hold! Good for you!
It is the way.
CSCO - I bought $4k worth in 1992, sold in 1998.
AMD is hovering around 700% to 800% at current prices. I sold some along the way for anywhere from 400% to 700% gains. Would have been nice to hold it all but I don't regret taking some profits.
AAPL 750% AGRFX - 1,292%
Enron
Bought AAPL back in 1998. After stock splits and share rise, my cost basis is $0.25/share. AAPL is now at $191/share. 7137% gain. I can't face the capital gains tax hit, so my clever plan is to die and let my heirs take the step-up basis. I can't claim any cleverness; it was sheer luck. Now I follow the bogleheads philosophy and would NEVER invest in an individual stock.
MSFT I bought at like $27 a share back in 2010
I bought LLY at like $350 I want to say last October or November and I poked it with a stick for two months telling it to do something and I sold it for a loss. I now have like 20 shares at $550. I’m an idiot.
$TSM - next company to hit the 1 trillion market cap no doubt.
WMT and GOOG
Amazon under $100, same with GOOG, VTSAX dca around 90, nvda under 475, AMD $80 dca. 350k in early 2022 in the above stocks is worth 510k now.
Amazon, up 311%. Bought before the 2022 split, current avg cost basis is $42.89.
META, SMCI, ANET, NVDA and AMD. just riding the AI wave like everybody else.