NVIDIA's 11,159% decade narrowly tops Bitcoin's 10,587% gain

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on November 8, 2026.

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NVIDIA's 11,159% ten-year return edges out Bitcoin's in Charlie Bilello's scorecard of the five most-watched assets, a margin that would have looked unthinkable at the start of the period.

AMD lands third with a return that would rank as generational in almost any other context, while Tesla and Apple round out the list in an entirely different league from the top three.

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The spread between first and last on this list is the practical cost of diversifying away from the decade's biggest winners, whether into an index, a balanced portfolio, or names that looked safer at the time.

The list captures endpoints only. Each of these assets passed through significant volatility and steep drawdowns across the decade, and the final return says nothing about how hard it was to hold through the worst stretches.

Mentioned: NVDA, AMD, TSLA, AAPL