‘No pain, no gain,’ just look at stocks that jumped nearly 1,000% in a 5-year time span
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Adam Gault
“No pain, no gain,” that’s what Trivariate Research, a U.S. equity focused research house, highlighted about stocks that have exploded nearly 1,000% over 5-year trading periods.
Of the 20 instances since 1999 that in a 5-year span a stock soared at least 900%, they each also experienced a drawdown of a minimum of 50% during the same 5 years.
Shares of GameStop (GME) not surprisingly led the group with the largest drawdown of 89%. Despite the large retracement between the 5 years from 2016 to 2021, the stock also rocketed higher by 1,507% during the same time.
At the other end, the company that had the lowest drawdown over a 5-year period but still provided returns of over 900% was shares of MGM Resort International (MGM). Between 2009-2014, MGM experienced a max drawdown of 58% while also rallying 1,010% over the same timeframe.
While there were 20 instances of this boom and retracement process that took place, only 19 stocks achieved this milestone with one stock doing it twice, and that was Nvidia (NVDA) from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2018 to 2023.
Listed below are the 19 stocks that have observed the largest draw-downs over a 5-year horizon, while still returning over 900% during the same period since 1999. See how these stocks now stack up today when compared against Seeking Alpha’s Quant Metrics:
No. 19: Dexcom (DXCM): Quant rating 1.72.
No. 18: Herbalife (HLF): Quant rating 2.58.
No. 17: GameStop (GME): Quant rating 2.63.
No. 16: Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS): Quant rating 2.81.
No. 15: RH (RH): Quant rating 2.83.
No. 14: MGM Resorts International (MGM): Quant rating 3.00.
No. 13: Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI): Quant rating 3.00.
No. 12: The Williams Companies (WMB): Quant rating 3.08.
No. 11: The Trade Desk (TTD): Quant rating 3.27.
No. 10: Tesla (TSLA): Quant rating 3.28.
No. 9: Block (SQ): Quant rating 3.33.
No. 8: American Tower Corporation (AMT): Quant rating 3.34.
No. 7: Genworth Financial (GNW): Quant rating 3.35.
No. 6: Booking Holding (BKNG): Quant 3.38.
No. 5: Intuitive Surgical (ISRG): Quant rating 3.46.
No. 4: Netflix (NFLX): Quant rating 3.47.
No. 3: Nvidia (NVDA): Quant rating 3.49.
No. 2: Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP): Quant rating 3.83.
No. 1: Travel + Leisure Co (TNL): Quant rating 4.30.
Regarding the filters that Trivariate Research used to compile its list, they only included stocks that had a market cap of $2B or greater and traded $30M or more shares on an average day.
Furthermore, the above list was ranked according to Seeking Alpha’s Quant Ratings, a system that grades stocks based on quantitative measures, such as profitability, momentum and valuation. Quant Ratings are given on a scale of 1-5.