what is the largest stock return over a 1 year period in the past decade?
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All I can say is that if you invested $1000 in Imperial Sugar on the 1st of January, 2005, then on December 31st of 2005 you would have had $2250.
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try motley fool at http://www.fool.com
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one million in one year
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Statistically, the most profitable decade in a person's life is their 50's.  Colonel Sanders never fried a chicken until he was in his 60's.  I recommend the book "48 Days to the Work You Love" by Dan Miller.\n\nhttp://www.48days.com/
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Morningstar.com has the best records for all mutual funds. Yahoo! Finance also has this info.
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Depends upon the source of the large sum. In most cases, it's 2006, not 2005.
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yahoo might have a database going that far back,  http://finance.yahoo.com/\n\nit depends on what stock you want to look up though.
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Have you really realized that much of a capital gain in a year? If so, you can always reinvest the proceeds before December 31 and defer any taxes, it does not have to be a 1031 excahnge.
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The most profitable stock portfolios DO NOT invest in just one country.
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Turning  99409.12 into 100000 is a 0.594% gain. This can be obtained in .594/4.5 = 0.132 years. Which is 48.2 days.
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Go to finance.yahoo.com (see below), enter the stock symbol, and then click on 'Historical Prices' on the left side, and then you can view open, high, low, and close values, as well as volume and adjusted close (which takes into account splits and dividends).\n\nIf you want to see the one year return for Sprint Nextel, click on the link below. That should show you daily historical prices from April 20 2005 to April 19 2006. Divide the adjusted close for April 19 2006 by the adjusted close for April 20 2005. Then subtract 1, and your return is .1724, or 17.24%.
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This is just my opinion but for example, the big oil companies have gained record breaking profits in the first quarter of this year.  As an effect, oil prices have gone up dramatically.....)(
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Acording to their 10K\n1,250 million shares are authorized. At January 28, 2006, 233 million shares were issued and outstanding
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I compare on these two charts the CRB index (A widely used commodity index) and the S&P 500.  The S&P 500 has done much better since 1957.  If you use other commodity or stock indices you will get similar results.\nI may also point out there are many stock mutual funds going back over 20 years with great results.  There are very few commodity funds.
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You can go to this Morning Star site and get the best performing funds for the past year. It is ProFunds UltraJapan Inv.  Unfortunately funds that do the best one year frequently do terribly the next year.  You can also get the funds that have done best over the last 3, 5, and 10 years.  Unfortunately studies have proven that even funds with good 10 years records have a tendency to underperform the market in the future.  The Magellan fund had the best record ~15 years ago,  over the last 10 years it has not done well.
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Knowing what the best stocks to invest in is very difficult.  Even the experts frequently make wrong decisions.  However over the long run, stocks average a gain of 10-11% a year.  If you buy a diversified group of stocks and hold out for the long run you will do well.  Most people buy mutual funds, which invest in diversified stocks and bonds.  I like Vanguard.com, although other people like Fidelity, TIAA-CREF, and DFA.  Look at these websites:
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^IRX&a=4&b=1&c=2006&d=4&e=18&f=2006&g=d