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Reference pages rather than articles, which means they are updated in place instead of being published once and left to age. Where the ordering can be computed from market data it is, so the ranking you see is the current one rather than whatever was true on the day somebody wrote it down.

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RecomputedIndex Funds Ranked by Ten-Year Price ReturnVOO, QQQ, VTI, SCHD and VGT ordered by price return over the last ten years, recomputed from monthly closes rather than written down once and left to age. Dividends are excluded, which matters most for SCHD - see the methodology below.View the list
Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, one of the companies ranked on this list
RecomputedBlue-Chip Stocks Ranked by Ten-Year Price ReturnTen long-established US companies ordered by price return over the last decade, recomputed from monthly closes, showing how wide the spread inside a supposedly safe group really is.View the list
Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is one of the holdings ranked here
RecomputedActive Management vs the Index Over Ten YearsTwo well-known active managers set against the S&P 500 and a passive fund tracking it, ranked over ten years, as a concrete version of an argument usually made with statistics.View the list
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RecomputedDefence Stocks Ranked by Return Since 2022European and US defence contractors ordered by price return since the start of 2022, with the S&P 500 included so the gap is visible rather than asserted.View the list
Cans and a glass of Coca-Cola, one of the dividend payers ranked on this list
RecomputedDividend and Defensive Holdings by Ten-Year ReturnIncome-oriented and defensive holdings ordered by ten-year price return, which deliberately understates them, and explains why the ranking alone is a misleading way to judge this group.View the list
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CuratedSovereign Wealth Funds Ranked by Assets Under ManagementThe state investment vehicles with more than a trillion dollars each, ordered by assets under management, with a note on why published rankings disagree.View the list
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CuratedStock Exchanges Ranked by Market CapitalisationThe world's largest exchanges by domestic market capitalisation, on World Federation of Exchanges data, including the 2026 handover that put Nasdaq above the NYSE for the first time.View the list

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