Biggest Money Makers and Losers Since 3/9/09

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 (GOOG) 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.

Comments

[a4ism:]

Your figures could use quite a bit of massaging.

1000 x $290.89 = $290,890 capital outlay GOOG
1000 x $83.11 = $83,110 capital outlay AAPL

So if you had $300,000, then you could have bought 1000 shares of GOOD, or over 3000 shares of AAPL, which would have returned $107,140 x 3 = $321,420. This is much more than GOOG's return.

You can not simply say "if you had 1000 shares of". Otherwise, I would simply take 1000 shares of BRK.A, thankyouverymuch...

Oct 08 01:26 PM

[Hula Gu:]

A very very very flawed piece. Doing a comparitive aalysis i terms of aw dollars make no sense at all! You need to use PERCENTATGE to feel the true impact of net change overtime... Please think about it!

Oct 09 08:10 AM

[Flying Bird:]

Interesting piece, everyone looks at percentage change. The author obviously noted the difference between percents and dollars, and I happen to think Google going from 290 to 517 is quite a bit more significant than Bank of America going from 3 to 17.

Oct 09 08:31 AM

[Reggiej:]

Just get short any of the stocks on the "worst list" it's pretty simple. Bad usually gets worse, which usually gets aweful, wheich means OUT OF BUSINESS>> Get short and enjoy the money.. tough times ahead..

Oct 09 10:43 AM