The Top Twenty Performers In The Last Fifty Years

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Project ID: BHVSO 12

Advisor(s)

Dr. Pradeep K. Chintagunta; University of Chicago

Start Date

22-4-2020 8:30 AM

End Date

22-4-2020 8:45 AM

Abstract

Many factors such as a company’s marketing strategy, industrial sector, and target population may have large impacts on their success as a business. To test how these different attributes affect a company’s stock performance, all mid cap, large cap, and mega cap companies globally were analyzed to find the top twenty stock performers and worst twenty stock performers in the last fifty years. The purpose of this research was to test for correlation between these variables, each attribute vs annualized return. In March 2005, Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the Wharton School of Business, published his book The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New about a similar area of research. This project was designed to add to Siegel’s work by reanalyzing the stock market to see how it has changed since Siegel’s initial research fifteen years ago. Siegel found that successful companies created everyday products such as cigarettes and foods. With the growth of technology in past years, how has this changed the stock market? The findings of this research is intended to be another source of information for investors and stock market analysts in making financial decisions.

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The Top Twenty Performers In The Last Fifty Years

Many factors such as a company’s marketing strategy, industrial sector, and target population may have large impacts on their success as a business. To test how these different attributes affect a company’s stock performance, all mid cap, large cap, and mega cap companies globally were analyzed to find the top twenty stock performers and worst twenty stock performers in the last fifty years. The purpose of this research was to test for correlation between these variables, each attribute vs annualized return. In March 2005, Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the Wharton School of Business, published his book The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New about a similar area of research. This project was designed to add to Siegel’s work by reanalyzing the stock market to see how it has changed since Siegel’s initial research fifteen years ago. Siegel found that successful companies created everyday products such as cigarettes and foods. With the growth of technology in past years, how has this changed the stock market? The findings of this research is intended to be another source of information for investors and stock market analysts in making financial decisions.