According to Bessembinder, the highest annualized compound return for any US stock with at least 20 years of performance data was approximately 33%, earned by Nvidia shareholders. This corresponds to a cumulative compound return of 131,500%, or $1,316 for every dollar initially invested. The median number of years of available return data for the top 30 performing stocks is just under 26 years, with only 14 of these stocks still listed by December 2023.
