2024’s Winners and Losers

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The S&P 500 finished the year up about 24%, more than double the index’s average annual return. (00:49) Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey check in on the year in investing. They discuss: - What most of the biggest winners in the S&P 500 had in common. - Why more investors bought gold and Bitcoin in 2024. - A tough stretch for Walgreens Boot Alliance. - Their favorite investing discoveries from the past year. Companies discussed: PLTR, VST, UAL, NVDA, AXON, LULU, NFLX, WBA, INTC, DLTR Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Asit Sharma Producer: Mary Long Engineer: Desireé Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy almost New Year's. You're listening. It's Motley full money.
0:12.4	I'm Ricky Mulvee here with the king of New Year's Eve himself. It's Asa Charma.
0:16.3	Awesome. Good to see you. Ricky, great to see you. What are you doing for New Year's?
0:20.6	Well, I am chilling with
0:22.7	the fam, but in an alternate universe, Ricky, I'm showing up with a few beers and a pack of cards
0:29.8	at your house to spend New Year's Eve. Coming over to Denver. I'm not going to be here, but you
0:36.3	are welcome to hang out in this
0:38.3	half duplex. Is your dog sitter there? What? Let's get into the show. Now's a good time to look
0:46.4	back. Winners and losers of 2024. I must at 2025. Brain's in a weird space. When you look at the list of the companies that have done really, really well this year,
0:57.4	Osset, I bet you can find the theme.
0:59.5	So as we look back, these are the best performers of the S&P 500.
1:03.5	Top five.
1:04.4	One is Palantir.
1:06.5	This is a questionable addition since it got in there in September, but it's up about
1:10.7	350% this
1:12.1	year. If you want a clean ranking, there's Vistra, first utility to take the top spot
1:19.6	since 2001, a boring utility company with a 264% gain. And then how about NVIDIA?
1:26.9	Still in the mix at number three with 177%.
1:30.2	This is the one that was surprising to me.
1:32.7	United Airlines at number four, up more than 130%.
1:37.6	And then I'm sure Dylan Lewis will be happy about the number five spot going to Axon
1:41.7	Enterprise.
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