Boring, quiet & crushing the market for the last 5 years
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- Boring, quiet & crushing the market for the last 5 years John Csiszar Thu, June 18, 2026 at 12:07 AM GMT+7 5 min read CW NVDA AAPL META MU The Street aims to feature only the best products and services.
- This is the third piece in a series examining "boring" large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years.
- Most investors can name the biggest winners of the past five years without thinking too hard.
Boring, quiet & crushing the market for the last 5 years John Csiszar Thu, June 18, 2026 at 12:07 AM GMT+7 5 min read CW NVDA AAPL META MU The Street aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.
This is the third piece in a series examining "boring" large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years. The first piece introduced the five companies and the data. The second piece covered defense and nuclear supplier Curtiss-Wright. This week: a company that moves natural gas through pipes.
Most investors can name the biggest winners of the past five years without thinking too hard. They’re the names that show up every day in the financial news: Nvidia. Apple. Meta. Micron. Williams Companies (WMB) is not and likely won’t ever be one of those names. But if you’re after performance, you might wish you’d uncovered the stock five years ago. As of June 3, 2026, Its 5-year total return of roughly 227% with dividends reinvested beats the Nasdaq-100's 133% return by nearly 70 percentage points. All without the benefit of nightly recommendations from CNBC.