Two-thirds of U.S. stocks are positive year-to-date with a median return of 12.6%, even as many high-profile name-brand companies are getting slaughtered.
Ben highlights a striking contrast: 66% of stocks in the Russell 3000 are positive YTD with a 12.6% median return, even as marquee names like Oracle and Netflix suffer 50%+ drawdowns. ✦ AI generated
Ben · The Compound · 2026-07-22 · original ↗
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66% of stocks are positive year-to-date in the US stock market. Median return is 12.6%. That's pretty good. Two-thirds of stocks are positive. That's a pretty good year. I'm just saying it's really surprising that a lot of these name brand companies are getting slaughtered while this is happening to all the rest of the stock market.
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4:38once a week to see like what's going on in the stock market. 66% of stocks are positive yearto date in the US stock market. Median return is 12.6%. That's pretty good. >> Yeah. >> Two-thirds of stocks right are positive. That that's a pretty good year. I'm just saying it's really surprising that a lot of these name brand companies are getting slaughtered while this is happening to all the rest of the stock
4:58market. >> Mhm. It's interesting. >> That is interesting. >> We got We have to mention the banging in the background. Uh Michael, >> I hear that >> is single-handedly keeping mudrooms open for America and getting another new mudroom. Do you >> It's It's mudroom 2.0. It's running back. >> Now, I have a question. Did Did you use the same construction people that did your first mudroom for the second
5:26mudroom? >> Nope. >> No. Oh, you weren't happy with it? >> M not really. Um, when you walk into my house, there is a set of stairs about six stairs going up and there's like a little tiny nook area to the left. So, if the four of us walk into the house, we have to do a single file. It's a very small area. And so, what happens,
5:49anybody who's listening with kids knows that the [ __ ] piles up. the bags, the uh tennis rackets, sneakers, whatever it is. It's it's so I need a butter room. So, I'm cutting, you know, I was do this later in the show. I'll do it now. You know, my uh that I'm on like a a kindness streak. Trying to be trying to be a little bit nicer. Trying to breathe
6:12when I get upset and not yell. >> Okay. >> Right. >> When you have kids, it's that's impossible. It really is. I know that there are people out there who don't yell at their kids, but um >> those people are like have no emotion or something. >> Yeah, I'm not talking about my kids. I they they get no they get no they get no grace. >> I'm talking about strangers because you
6:32never know. You know, people life is hard and you never know what people are going through. >> Okay. >> So, giving strangers a little grace. However, >> Ben, I live in a culde-sac. Not a lot of traffic here. Okay. A dumpster went into my driveway and not two hours later, the town inspector comes through. >> Holy cow. >> Has an iPad and takes a picture of my