The "Dead Retail" stocks Wall Street buried are up 100%-plus this year
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on November 8, 2026.
1y: +100% 😎 5y -99% 😥
Beaten-down retail is outrunning the blue chips this year: Cracker Barrel is up 174% YTD while left-for-dead mall names doubled. A one-year double can still sit inside a five-year collapse.
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A post by GovernmentGoblin on r/wallstreetbets shows dozens of stocks widely dismissed as bottom-of-the-barrel retail names have doubled or more year to date, outpacing the blue-chip and big-tech names that dominated financial media coverage over the same stretch.
Cracker Barrel leads the specific callouts at 174% year to date, with Cheesecake Factory close behind. Stanley Black and Decker, Best Buy, Hasbro, eBay, Garmin, and Williams-Sonoma are each posting gains that have gone largely unnoticed next to the AI trade.
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The top comment, from UltimateBaghold, notes that a one-year gain of 100% can still sit inside a five-year loss of 99%. That framing matters for anyone sizing a position, because a dramatic YTD recovery leaves the structural damage that sent these stocks to the bottom of the index intact.
The post documents a rotation that flew under the radar: capital moved into the most beaten-down corners of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq while mainstream attention stayed fixed elsewhere. The YTD numbers alone do not show how much runway that rotation has left.