Chart o’ the Day: Riding Giants is Never Easy

My friend Scott Krisiloff just posted an amazing chart on his blog at Avondale Asset Management.

He demonstrates how the biggest winning stocks of the last ten years have not exactly made things easy for their holders. There’s a great surfing metaphor somewhere in here but I’m too busy to come up with it.

Check this out:

The stocks below are 15 of the Russell 1000′s top performers since 2003.  All of them saw significant declines in the last recession

Max-Drawdown-of-Best-Stocks

 

Source:

Max Drawdown of The Top Performing Stocks of the Last Decade (Avondale)

Follow Scott on Twitter: @skrisiloff

 

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