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25 Years Later: The Dow's Biggest Loser (And Winner)
Of the current stack of 30 'Blue-Chip' stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Alcoa has managed to do the worst over the past 25 years - gaining a cumulative 63% in the last 25 years (or 2.2% annually). The Dow itself, based on Bloomberg's Chart of the Day, has risen 627% since the crash in 1987 (or 8.6% annually) - almost 10x that of Alcoa; while McDonald's (perhaps perfectly summarizing what America is all about) has risen on average 12.8% per year for a 1620% gain since Black Monday. But who has impacted the Dow the most since its highs in October of 2007? (Hint: they disappointed this week!)
The best and worst performer (among current Dow members - avoiding the BKs!) since the 1987 crash...
But perhaps most importantly - the Dow is around 850 points from its intraday highs in October 2007 - and of the members of the Dow at that point AIG and C did the most damage (accounting for 870 points of loss on their own); while IBM has been the true star adding a magnificent 568 points during that time.
We can only hope that IBM, MCD, and WMT do not start to disappoint...oh wait...
Charts: Bloomberg
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Long mobility scooters!
You Rascal.
Funny!
Clowns aren't so stupid after all.
Awesome, I keep getting a Walmart popup ad with each page refresh. Goes nice with my sidebar ads from RandPAC.
Get adblock!
or, alternatively, videos such as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb4pGLCclVo&feature=related (apologies to peter fonda and dennis hopper) may make us all aware of how far we have fallen. look homeward angel and melt with ruth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCEeg6-ax6Y
WacArnolds.
Growth is driven by international sales, over 60% of Mcdonalds sales are outside the US.
in IBM's case it's driven by offshoring the workforce
long alcoa short mcdonalds.
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – all on a sesame seed bun.
Damn it Taint, you are dating us. Remember the 70's ALCOA ads? Next thing you know the hotshot 20 somethings here will be making fun of us because we had only three channels of TV static to watch. Screw that noise. We went outside and played some games in those days and Dad drank up all of the family's non-essential income on a nightly basis.
So it goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feoZZdKyCQM
Damn it Taint, you are dating us .....
Well I could have done the where's the beef commercial [1984] ......... ah the memories. Anyone here know about The Ghoul .... only in the detroit area - now that would really freak me out.
mcdonalds knows monopoly
http://www.playatmcd.com
The Ghoul? That, Sir, I can not claim to know about. Two states and a lake west of you.
Hi-a, hi-a, hi-a! Remember Bill Kennedy?
AA made the aluminum for the engine block of my Chevy Vega
AA supplied the raw metal for aluminum wiring in the some early-70s houses, too.
Some folks like the 'flickering firelight' effect ...
Two obese Patties, Special Ross, Red-Is-Peace picking bunions on a Sesame Bus.
I know I know..... IBM
Damn... I was gonna guess IBM's evil twin, the SkyNet system known as HAL....
HAL is one step ahead of IBM...
or one letter.... How did I not notice that before?
You just blew my mind.
wtf how did I not know this HAL IBM pattern?
conspiricy confirmed!
The Dow has really benefitted from having Citi instead of Honeywell. [/sarc.]
That was a good one Buzz! +1 Bankers vs Warriers? huuummm. Weapons require "real/ tangible elements". )side arm, human repair business(
I'll side with war, for a decent dividend Buzz. /sarc
C, 3 billion shares served. lulz
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand...
Or a bionic hook... Nice work buzz ;-)
Squirrel Jam
Oh Oh!
Unless they get de-listed, AAPL may win that coveted TBTF status. iShite for all.
Bernanke needs to buy tons of Apple stock, because if it falls so does the market. Hell, there is no market, but Apple is the next best thing.
Alcoa was tracking the Dow just fine until '08. All those unemployed people collecting cans must have eaten up their margins.
Remember when cans were "tin", and had pull tabs?
Remember when dimes were silver?
Do you remember when most chicks weren't FAT? Even the two baggers?
They started getting their belly fat after dwarf wheat and high fructose corn syrup were introduced on a mass scale about 30 years ago. Type 2 diabetes began its climb toward the stratosphere then too. It isn't just women either.
An example of one of those beauties:
http://canadanewslibre.com/2012/08/22/fat-belly-wheat-belly/
Current wheat is a BIG issue - sil who's a nurse put her kids on a no wheat diet and 'presto' - losing fat, not as hyper..... amazing differnce
A 2 bagger - LOL
The terrible unemployment stats for young adults are pretty exciting. Bitches cant get fat when they cant afford food.
I remember when ZH threads didn't look like a herd of yahoo msg board trolling. . .
64' Kennedy half dollar is worth $11.60.
http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1964-Silver-Kennedy-Half-Dollar-Value.html
My Grandmother used to work at a bank and "exchanged" countless (boating accident) numbers of 64' K for worthless .50 crap.
Grandma was ahead of her time.
Dimes were silver in the 50's, and two of them would buy a gallon of gas. Today you can buy a gallon of gas with one of those 50's dimes.
No.
Pitty.
The "church key" was a requirement for drinking beer.
Swiss Army or BSA pocket knife worked fine.....
The only thing missing is a comment on the change in the nature of the Dow itself - from a vehicle for businesses to raise capital to an ATM for banksters, cabals and insiders.
Don't forget the political barometer of bullshit Inc.
MCD WMT - One is in the waste business, the other in the waist business. Both are garbage related
Those Alcoa fuckers could not wait for tomorrow... to underperform.
Lessons in exponents...
Word on the street is IBM hardware is in every super computing center being built West of the Mississippi.
Buffet has insider preference with a thumb on the pipeline that's how...
This is a bit misleading. What does this chart look like in inflation adjusted terms. If you look at a chart of the S&P 500 or the Dow since the 1987 crash, what is obvious is the start of a great inflation starting in the early 90's. The extra air all came from the central banks. If you adjust these charts for inflation, the increase was not very spectacular at all.