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Just 27.6% Of Stocks Outperform The Market While 60% Destroy Shareholder Wealth, New Study Finds
Just 27.6% Of Stocks Outperform The Market While 60% Destroy Shareholder Wealth, New Study Finds
From 1926 through 2025, just 27.6% of stocks beat the broader market. Nearly 60% actually destroyed shareholder wealth, and the median stock delivered a lifetime return of -6.9%. Yet despite those sobering odds, U.S. stocks collectively created roughly $91 trillion in wealth over the last century, with just 46 companies responsible for half of it.
Those are some of the headline findings from a new study by Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School...
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