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⏳ The $100 time machine
If you'd invested $100 in this stock and held, what would it be worth today? (Price-only growth; dividends would add more.)
Curve is synthesised from each stock's compound annual growth rate when a full price history isn't loaded; the live dataset draws the real path. Past performance is not a forecast.
⚔️ Head-to-head
Two companies, one chart. $100 in each at the earliest year they both traded — dividends reinvested.
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Total return (dividends reinvested) where available; foreign converted to USD. Past performance is not a forecast — not financial advice.
About the Stock Explorer
There is no single "best stock" — it depends entirely on what you value. This explorer lets you switch the lens and watch the same global universe of equities re-rank: the all-time moonshots, the steady compounders, the dividend kings, the bargains, the priced-for-perfection, the highest-quality businesses, and the biggest wealth creators of all time.
The lenses
Methodology & caveats
Survivorship bias: companies that went bankrupt or were delisted can drop out of a "currently listed" universe, so all-time growth tables flatter the survivors. Era bias: raw total growth always favours the oldest stocks — that's why annual growth (CAGR) and per-decade views matter. All prices are split- and dividend-adjusted. Valuation lenses are screens built from public multiples, not investment advice.
Part of the 42-apps collection. For education, not financial advice.
🗃️ Data & sources
Wealth-creation framing inspired by Hendrik Bessembinder's long-run shareholder-return research. Figures are best-available snapshots; corrections welcome.
Stock Explorer
The greatest stocks of all time 🚀
One universe of global equities, ranked every which way. There's no single "best" — so pick the lens that matters to you and watch the leaderboard re-rank.
🎛️Switch lenses down the side — growth, dividends, value, quality, the wealth they created.
🏆Every lens gives you a podium and a ranked, at-a-glance bar chart.
⏳Hit the time machine to see what $100 would have become.