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Making sense of the markets this week: November 30
– moneysense.ca
Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.The 10 biggest stocks won big over the last 10 years
This decade belonged to the winners, says Michael Batnick on The Irrelevant Investor. From that post…
“…if you owned a portfolio of the 10 largest stocks and did a rebalance every January, you absolutely annihilated the S&P 500.”
And as you can see from the performance chart in that blog post, the top 10 beat the market by a shocking amount over a 10-year period. The top 10 delivered 579.3% for the period, compared to 251.7% for the S&P 500. Yes, more than a doubling of the market.
And what is also interesting is that the only stocks that would have stayed in the portfolio from 2010 through the end of the decade were Apple, Microsoft, Google and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
You might think of this as a form of cap weighting (when the largest stocks hold the greatest weight in the portfolio) on steroids…
