In annual tradition I will list my best and worst individual stock performers for 2025.

Best Performers
Netflix +44.75%
Shopify +38.12%
Apple +31.40%
Chipotle +23.85%

Worst Performers
Ethereum -10.94%
Bitcoin -6.37%
Cloudflare -4.30%
DataDog -2.15%

Nothing too exciting other than Netflix was once again one of my top performers which just goes to show you the power of long term buy and hold. I first purchased Netflix 20 years ago on Dec 8th, 2005 for 37 cents a share. It immediately tanked and I bought some more the following June for split adjusted 28 cents per share. Netflix closed the year at $93.75 and hit a high of $134.12 earlier in the year. Making that first purchase worth 253x what I originally paid for it and 20 years later the best performing stock in my portfolio was Netflix. Winners win and often for a very long time.

I will be the first to admit I have been very lucky with some of my stock picks, but the real separator has been my ability to think long term and let great companies and great leaders change the world and bring immense value to society. Thats it.

Regarding the worst performers. You see a couple crypto positions on the top. Bitcoin almost shouldnt be included and accounts for .02% of my net worth and my ETH as was from some playing around I did helping one of my buddies who was is a digital artist with some tech stuff during the NFT craze and while I took out 80% of the ETH I made playing around 5 years ago I’ve decided to primarily let this ride and see what will happen as it was basically free and accounts for < 1% of my portfolio.