Top Stocks
Compare the top 25 US stocks (by total return since inception, across major sectors) on risk and return metrics.
About this tool
Plot stocks on a risk-versus-return scatter to see which names delivered their returns efficiently and which made shareholders endure outsized volatility for the same result, with regression context for judging the trade-off.
The scatter teaches the market's most underrated lesson: return alone is half a number. Two stocks with identical gains are not equal if one doubled the volatility of the other, because volatility is what shakes investors out of positions before the return arrives.
What is risk-adjusted return?
Return per unit of risk taken, with volatility as the usual risk proxy. It rewards steady compounders over wild rides that happen to end well.
Is volatility really risk?
It is one honest proxy: permanent capital loss is the truer risk, but volatility is what triggers the panic selling that converts temporary declines into permanent ones.