MY BEST AND WORST STOCKS IN 2018
While my individual stocks did not have as many high flyers at last year they actually had one of their best performances in history with 16 of my 22 individual stocks outperforming the market. I did have one of my new holdings more than double this year in Alteryx. It also helped that two of my largest holdings in Netflix and Amazon had banner years which really gave my performance a super boost.
Alteryx + 135.34%
Chiptole +49.39%
Netflix +39.44%
BJ’S +38.93%
Shopify +37.08%
Intuitive Surgical +31.23%
Amazon +28.43%
Under Armour +21.40%
On the other side of the spectrum I did have a few stocks underperform the market. IPGP led the way losing nearly half of its value. This is a long time holding for and despite the haircut am still up 615% since I originally purchased it in 2008 and 2009. It also was up 116% last year so tends to be a volatile holding.
IPG Photonics -47.09%
Middleby -23.88%
Brookfield Infrastructure -22.94%
Axos Financial -15.79%
Arista Networks -10.56%