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It\u2019s not often that individual stocks can deliver life-changing wealth, but the Bespoke Investment Group identified several that will make you want to travel back in time.<\/p>\n
In a note on Tuesday, Bespoke calculated that a $1,000 investment in Nvidia<\/a> stock 20 years ago would be worth about $944,000 now, meaning you would be on the cusp of being a millionaire.<\/p>\n Maybe that\u2019s not quite enough to immediately quit your job and retire, but more money on the front end would\u2019ve certainly gotten you there. A $10,000 Nvidia investment would be worth $9.44 million today, and $100,000 would be $94.4 million, according to Bespoke. <\/p>\n Of course, that would\u2019ve required a significant level of faith to hold onto Nvidia through some white-knuckle market downturns like the Great Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Federal Reserve\u2019s most aggressive rate-hiking campaign in over 40 years.<\/p>\n Bespoke also pointed out that Nvidia is the best performer on a total-return basis over the last two decades among all stocks on the S&P 1500<\/a>, which includes the large-cap S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600.<\/p>\n You can thank the AI boom, which propelled Nvidia from a chip company best known for graphics processors used in video games to the indispensable supplier of technology that powers generative AI. In a sign of the times, the stock replaced Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang has done well for himself too. He\u2019s number 11 on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index with a net worth of $118 billion.<\/p>\n Another company that also experienced a transformation and has delivered massive gains is Netflix<\/a>, which went from renting out DVDs by mail to becoming a streaming and original content powerhouse that has upended Hollywood. <\/p>\n Bespoke calculated that a $1,000 investment in Netflix stock 20 year ago would be worth more than $550,000 today. <\/p>\n Nvidia and Netflix are among eight stocks that have turned $1,000 into more than $100,000 over the last 20 years.\u00a0Others include Texas Pacific Land, Apple<\/a>, Booking Holdings<\/a>, Monster Beverage<\/a>, Intuitive Surgical<\/a>, and\u00a0Amazon<\/a>, Bespoke said.<\/p>\n NFL legend Rob Gronkowski also showed us the power of picking the right stock at the right time. He told Fortune<\/em> that he\u00a0bought $69,000 worth of\u00a0Apple\u00a0stock<\/a> on advice from his contractor 10 years ago, and that investment is now worth $600,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLet me tell you, he built my house, and he gave all the money back to me by telling me to invest in Apple,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nHow many degrees of separation are you from the globe’s most powerful business leaders? <\/b>Explore who made our brand-new list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Business<\/a>. Plus, learn about the metrics we used to make it.<\/div>\n