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Daily Mail
13 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
I was a CEO until my firm collapsed and my husband divorced me on the same day... that was only the start of my hell
Julie Wainwright appeared to have it all. She was married to the love of her life and had just landed a top-ranking role at the rising the first web-based pet supply retailer, at the height of the dot-com boom in 1997.
Forbes
7 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Time To Get Real; Julie Wainwright On Rocking The Fashion Industry
Julie Wainwright and The RealReal team. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business that ROCKED the Fashion Industry, by visionary businesswoman Julie Wainwright, was released today. The book is an autobiography focusing on the career of one of the only American women to take a company public, The RealReal, a billion dollar online marketplace for luxury goods that Wainwright founded and built before stepping back in early 2022. I was able to speak with Wainwright about her book, her career and where she thinks the business of fashion will be heading as we continue to navigate the twenty-first century. 'The RealReal changed the way people shop and consign,' the author told me. These are and were cultural shifts that Wainwright encourages with her work. She understands the importance of shifting the fashion industry towards more sustainable practices. So much so that the brand's focus on sustainability in fashion made it a natural choice for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's CE100 USA's first luxury brand member. But how does a person start such a thing, where does one even begin? 'The first challenge,' Wainwright said, 'was getting consignors because, up until when we were about $750 million in top line revenue, 50% of the consignors had never consigned before. And the repeat rate for consignors was always really high, but for most people, it was too hard to consign.' Julie Wainwright when The RealReal went public. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright Even that had to be broken down further, into steps, to make sure the people who would be consignors (and clients) would understand how The RealReal worked, and what benefits the company offered. 'The first thing there,' Wainwright told me, 'was letting people know that they had trap value in their home. And then secondly, explaining that we all, we do the work. And then lastly, that it had to be a competitive percentage to them. Especially in some key categories. If you look at a Rolex watch, Rolex watches are pretty easy to sell anywhere. There's a lot of venues. 'If The RealReal was offering a percent to someone that was less than they could get any place else, it probably was not going to work. You had to get competitive where you needed to get competitive, explain, you do all the work, but it really was changing mindsets. And that's why we had a sales team that went to your house.' In 2025 that might sound old fashioned, but it is a vital reason the company was able to grow the way it has. But you can't send random strangers to someone's home to look at potentially valuable vintage pieces. Julie Wainwright on the cover of Forbes. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright 'I knew there was absolutely no way this was going to work if we waited for product to roll in on its own,' Wainwright said of her first consideration on this point. 'We always had a mail-in option, but no one's going to do it. And I say this in the book, it's going to be hard to return things. We have to explain condition. We had a lot of things we had to explain. Having a sales rep and the sales team was just precious to the company as they develop a relationship with the consignor and the consignor then develops trust in them. They can explain it for you because if we tried to do it with only a corporate message, it wouldn't have worked because all the consignment was local. but the consignment was consolidated in two different warehouse areas once we went into New York. But if you have someone that you can talk to, if you can reach them locally, and especially in the early days, they really were advocates, advisors, and evangelists for the brand.' The people repping the brand were people clients might run into at a supermarket, who understood the culture and the language of a community. 'They were people that lived there,' Wainwright agreed. 'And some of the best ones were salespeople that had quit a department store, you know, and they wanted more freedom. They had a client list and they were happy to go out and talk to their clients and they sold in.' I asked Wainwright if she could tell me a little more about this. 'We had a woman in Las Vegas, I think she still works at the company,' the author told me. 'She used to be the GM at Neiman Marcus in Las Vegas. And, you know, she didn't want to work there anymore. She wanted more freedom. She wanted to work the hours she wanted to work. And yeah, it worked out really well. So again, working with people that knew people that maybe had sold in, but also people that understood the luxury brands. At the beginning, there were a lot of moms getting back into the workforce who had done something in the fashion world. It could have been PR, but they'd done something and they were excited to do this job. This writer has been thinking a lot about the death of the commercial, or at least the monumental shift that marketing has to make now that we can (mostly) pay to skip the commercials. Brands have to figure out better ways to advertise, and I was very curious to know what Julie Wainwright, established expert, thought about where things could be heading. 'You know what,' she said, 'they are dying, but really entertaining ones go viral.' founder & CEO Michael Dubin, the guy in those commercials. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage) WireImage The Dollar Shave Club commercials stuck out, as an example, Wainwright remembers their successes, and she isn't sure that the era is entirely closed. I watched it again after we spoke (link to the commercial here), and remembered it immediately. Then I found myself rewatching a 13 year old commercial a couple of times. It is an excellent advertisement. I see her points. 'I thought this guy's brilliant. Riding around in his warehouse, talking about why his blades only cost this and you don't have to pay for that. And he's got the whole warehouse involved and it is still a funny ad. And he basically says, our blades are eff-ing great in the ad. I thought that was really brilliant. And here's the thing, the guy was very funny, but he never went off message. He talked about the brand. He told you why his were better. He didn't try to do something clever that wasn't related to the brand or people didn't understand why they should buy it. But I think clever ads are going to have to reign. I think things that can go viral. You've got more platforms to advertise now.' Before I asked her about the book in dept, I wanted to know when its author knew that fashion mattered to her, maybe a little bit more to her than to others. Its a question I ask a lot because it helps me understand the person I am speaking too. I had that same experience, my own version. Thinking about her own past, Wainwright shared a story from her life. 'My mother was at the Academy of Art in Chicago, which was later merged with the Art Institute, to become a fashion illustrator. So in my grandparents' home, my maternal grandparents' home, there were incredible costume designs. She really liked period designs, but there were hand drawings of different men and women in period designs through the ages. And rightly or wrongly, my mother also taught me the color wheel before kindergarten. She explained, I think she knew I was going to be short because I've always been short, why certain color combinations are better on different bodies and why certain lines are different for elongating. She literally schooled me in visual effects of fashion when I was in kindergarten. I don't know what happened to them, sadly, but her drawings as a kid were so inspirational because they were of a period. You know, there were some from the 1700s, the 1800s, the 1940s.' Julie Wainwright on CNN for The RealReal. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright Even if early experiences like this are subliminal, they do not leave us. We are all the products of everything we have experienced over time, tempered by the skills gained from what we have chosen to personally invest in. Wainwright's career may have started outside of fashion, but the work that interested her provided an invaluable education. 'When I joined the software publishing industry in the mid 1980s,' the author told me, 'there were a lot of women in high places in the tech world, and especially in the software world. At that time, it was a pure meritocracy. But it didn't last long. By the 1990s it had all changed. Everything had changed. By the way, half the engineers were women at software publishing in the beginning.' I asked Wainwright if her work felt more like a career or a vocation. Because a reader feels from the way she writes that she cares very much about the work she does. Increasingly this writer is understanding that caring is not as commonplace as a younger me believed. 'No,' Wainwright told me, 'I don't think that way at all. Because look, I was deep into marketing and brand management and product marketing. And even when I moved overseas, I applied strategy, and the best brand marketers and product marketers are strategic. Even at Clorox, when I was there, you couldn't go be in marketing without doing a stint in the field to learn sales. It was absolute, once you got promoted, they threw you out so you could understand how your programs were implemented, how the sales team works, how they were incented. BROOKLYN, NY - APRIL 20: Founder and CEO of the RealReal Julie Wainwright speaks onstage during Vanity Fairs Founders Fair at the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge on April 20, 2017 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo byfor Vanity Fair) Getty Images for Vanity Fair 'I ran huge P&Ls,'. 'I would say my whole focus has been running P&Ls in large areas of business. Which I would put down to every step I took, whether conscious or unconscious, allowing me to be a good CEO because I had done so many of the jobs. People don't necessarily do that anymore.' It can happen again, I said to her. 'I hope so,' Wainwright replied. What would help that be more possible? Surely she has thoughts. 'I don't even know if it's something I would recommend,' Wainwright said with a smile, 'but we still had to code for a while, which was weird. We had to code our demos, and I'm like, 'I have to code?' It's what I learned. You know, these are skills I never thought I would use, but we had to learn how to write our own programming. We had to program our own demos to show off to the press because the tech team didn't have time to do it. 'I would say that learning all these different functions, then running a company, especially one the size of The RealReal, which was big and complicated, I had done so many of these jobs or had some experience with them. It was incredibly helpful.' The New York storefront of The RealReal. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright Wainwright told me about dropping out of college mid-way through, taking six months off of school and finding work as a riveter on the General Motors line. She found a mentor, someone who saw her capabilities, a boss the writer told me had made a point of guiding her through the process of learning shop floor automation. 'It was incredibly valuable,' Wainwright explained. 'You know, this is going to sound bizarre, but when I look back, seeing how they were doing it was incredibly valuable. You know, if you went into one of the RealReal operations facilities, a lot of it is human driven, it's a very sophisticated operation. But I just think being there and watching it and getting trained in that way, as a young adult at the age of 20, it sort of takes away any fear because you learn a lot.' Julie Wainwright began her corporate ascent working in software development and brand management for The Clorox Company. She became CEO of Berkeley Systems, then then before founding The RealReal in 2011. I asked the author how the company's compared, was working in fashion any easier, significantly different? 'The RealReal is incredibly complicated,' the founder told me. 'And as time went on, you know, and every business starts small. So I'll give you an idea. When we first had even actually part-time people working, skewing product, we would time them. How long would it take to describe a product? How long would it take to measure? How, how are we going to authenticate? Then we had to sort of separate out into authentication lanes and we had to hire a couple experts right away. How long does that take? We had to do time studies, like old school time studies, to understand what an average time was, because at the end of the day, you're paying someone a salary and there has to be a throughput that actually is economical.' Wainwright's father, who got to see her on the cover of Forbes just before his tragic passing. Courtesy of Julie Wainwright 'It became a bad thing to talk about setting quotas for people in the op centers,' the author continued, 'but at the end of the day, they all needed goals. They needed accuracy goals. They needed quality goals, number goals and accuracy goals. And that needed to be measured every single day, because otherwise you don't know if you've got, it's a job performance issue and it's also an economic issue. When your average selling price is higher, you've got some latitude. And that's where we started doing time studies right away. As the company got bigger and bigger, it was clear that the only thing that we needed to focus on was developing software for the op centers that was unique, that would help move that forward. When I left, we were writing copy off the photo, having humans QC it, and then the whole dynamic changed. It was step by step, just like anything, started in my house, went to a bigger op center. It became really important when we hit, it wasn't even that critical when we hit a hundred million and top line. But by the time we got to 500 million, everything had to be looked at and rescaled.' 'The worst thing,' Wainwright told me, 'both as a consignor and as a business owner, is to have inventory piling up. You have to find what I call 'optimal pricing.' Optimal pricing is velocity of sale within a 90 day window. And that was set up for two reasons. One is if you give someone your goods and they're gone out of your house, 90 days, it feels like a long time to get paid because you still have to get things processed. It could be, you know, a quarter, it could be four months. So an optimal pricing point within a 90 day window. Secondly, as the business is growing, it's really hard to estimate op center space. If you are holding onto product too long, you're going to have tons of, then you're priced it wrong, number one. And number two, you're adding a lot of expense without any benefit to the consigner or the company. So, the pricing model was critical.' For The RealReal, a business that takes pieces on consignment, Wainwright understood that there needed to be ways to qualify and quantify prices, in a manner that is perhaps specific to the apparel industry. Julie Wainwright and Diane von Furstenberg Courtesy of Julie Wainwright 'This is sort of morbid, but when a top designer dies, their things heat up. It's just the way it goes, or they change houses, things heat up. That's where the humans come in, machine learning is never going to capture that. That's where you always need human oversight with good machine learning. But pricing, optimal pricing had to be in place in order to keep the op center space efficient, and to keep the consignors happy. 'I know this is getting really nerdy,' she said, 'but all of this was thought of at the very beginning, by the way, it was always thought of scale, which meant we had to have very deep, deep taxons. A Fendi bag is a Fendi bag. But Maybe it's a baguette, maybe it's a baguette with sequins. Maybe it has a leather strap. Maybe it has this, maybe it's this year. You had to get a lot of descriptions, especially on key things, the value changed based on how deep your taxons went. If people get upset because their things weren't priced right, it was because it was such a special item that the taxons wouldn't have caught it, even then. But all the product taxons go very, very deep. So you can then price by not just by brand or type, but by what attributes that product has. Certain leathers, but also different, you know, they have chain straps, or they don't have chain straps, it's a flap bag, and it's this size. You have to take in all the colors, you have to take in condition. It's a complex multivariate pricing formula that I'm sure is always being refined. I mean, it's constant refinement through technology with human oversight.' I ask the author if there was any advice she had for young women. Cliche? Maybe a little. But how could I not? "Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business that ROCKED the Fashion Industry," by visionary businesswoman Julie Wainwright Courtesy of Julie Wainwright 'You have to work hard,' Wainwright said. 'I mean, honestly, nothing comes easy, but for me, it's worth it. I would also say, it's really important for women to make their own money. So they have choices that they make that aren't put on them because they don't have money. So they make the choices for the right reason. And it builds confidence, it gives them options. It puts them in a position where they're not compromising. And it's hard. It's hard, but it's worth it.' Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business that ROCKED the Fashion Industry by Julie Wainwright, from BenBella Books, is now on sale.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Consumer Internet Stocks Q1 Teardown: Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) Vs The Rest
Wrapping up Q1 earnings, we look at the numbers and key takeaways for the consumer internet stocks, including Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and its peers. The ways people shop, transport, communicate, learn and play are undergoing a tremendous, technology-enabled change. Consumer internet companies are playing a key role in lives being transformed, simplified and made more accessible. The 49 consumer internet stocks we track reported a satisfactory Q1. As a group, revenues beat analysts' consensus estimates by 1.9% while next quarter's revenue guidance was in line. Luckily, consumer internet stocks have performed well with share prices up 11.5% on average since the latest earnings results. Widely regarded as the face of crypto, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is a blockchain infrastructure company updating the financial system with its trading, staking, stablecoin, and other payment solutions. Coinbase reported revenues of $2.03 billion, up 24.2% year on year. This print fell short of analysts' expectations by 3.6%. Overall, it was a slower quarter for the company with EBITDA in line with analysts' estimates. Interestingly, the stock is up 28.2% since reporting and currently trades at $264.80. Is now the time to buy Coinbase? Access our full analysis of the earnings results here, it's free. Known for its glass tower car vending machines, Carvana (NYSE:CVNA) provides a convenient automotive shopping experience by offering an online platform for buying and selling used cars. Carvana reported revenues of $4.23 billion, up 38.3% year on year, outperforming analysts' expectations by 6.2%. The business had an exceptional quarter with a solid beat of analysts' EBITDA estimates and impressive growth in its units. The market seems happy with the results as the stock is up 18.4% since reporting. It currently trades at $306.20. Is now the time to buy Carvana? Access our full analysis of the earnings results here, it's free. Founded by consignment store aficionado Julie Wainwright, The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) is an online marketplace for buying and selling secondhand luxury goods. The RealReal reported revenues of $160 million, up 11.3% year on year, in line with analysts' expectations. It was a slower quarter as it posted full-year EBITDA guidance missing analysts' expectations. As expected, the stock is down 25.3% since the results and currently trades at $5.45. Read our full analysis of The RealReal's results here. With a mission to democratize finance, Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) is an online consumer finance platform known for its commission-free stock and crypto trading. Robinhood reported revenues of $927 million, up 50% year on year. This number beat analysts' expectations by 1.2%. Taking a step back, it was a slower quarter as it logged a miss of analysts' EBITDA estimates. The company reported 25.8 million users, up 7.9% year on year. The stock is up 31.2% since reporting and currently trades at $64.50. Read our full, actionable report on Robinhood here, it's free. Formed through the 2013 merger of Elance and oDesk, Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK) is an online platform where businesses and independent professionals connect to get work done. Upwork reported revenues of $192.7 million, flat year on year. This result surpassed analysts' expectations by 2.2%. More broadly, it was a mixed quarter as it also produced an impressive beat of analysts' EBITDA estimates but a decline in its customers. The company reported 812,000 active customers, down 6.9% year on year. The stock is up 24.2% since reporting and currently trades at $16.53. Read our full, actionable report on Upwork here, it's free. In response to the Fed's rate hikes in 2022 and 2023, inflation has been gradually trending down from its post-pandemic peak, trending closer to the Fed's 2% target. Despite higher borrowing costs, the economy has avoided flashing recessionary signals. This is the much-desired soft landing that many investors hoped for. The recent rate cuts (0.5% in September and 0.25% in November 2024) have bolstered the stock market, making 2024 a strong year for equities. Donald Trump's presidential win in November sparked additional market gains, sending indices to record highs in the days following his victory. However, debates continue over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments, raising questions about economic stability in 2025. Want to invest in winners with rock-solid fundamentals? Check out our Strong Momentum Stocks and add them to your watchlist. These companies are poised for growth regardless of the political or macroeconomic climate. Join Paid Stock Investor Research Help us make StockStory more helpful to investors like yourself. Join our paid user research session and receive a $50 Amazon gift card for your opinions. Sign up here. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The RealReal (NASDAQ:REAL) Reports Q1 In Line With Expectations But Stock Drops 10.5%
Secondhand luxury marketplace The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) met Wall Street's revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 11.3% year on year to $160 million. On the other hand, next quarter's revenue guidance of $159 million was less impressive, coming in 0.8% below analysts' estimates. Its non-GAAP loss of $0.08 per share was in line with analysts' consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy The RealReal? Find out in our full research report. Revenue: $160 million vs analyst estimates of $159.8 million (11.3% year-on-year growth, in line) Adjusted EPS: -$0.08 vs analyst estimates of -$0.08 (in line) Adjusted EBITDA: $4.11 million vs analyst estimates of $3.98 million (2.6% margin, relatively in line) The company reconfirmed its revenue guidance for the full year of $652.5 million at the midpoint EBITDA guidance for the full year is $25 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $29.7 million Operating Margin: -8%, up from -12.5% in the same quarter last year Free Cash Flow was -$35.85 million, down from $22.91 million in the previous quarter Active Buyers : 985,000, up 601,000 year on year Market Capitalization: $797.3 million "We are pleased to report strong first quarter results and our focus remains steadfast,' said Rati Levesque, Chief Executive Officer of The RealReal. Founded by consignment store aficionado Julie Wainwright, The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) is an online marketplace for buying and selling secondhand luxury goods. Reviewing a company's long-term sales performance reveals insights into its quality. Any business can put up a good quarter or two, but many enduring ones grow for years. Unfortunately, The RealReal's 6.2% annualized revenue growth over the last three years was tepid. This was below our standard for the consumer internet sector and is a rough starting point for our analysis. This quarter, The RealReal's year-on-year revenue growth was 11.3%, and its $160 million of revenue was in line with Wall Street's estimates. Company management is currently guiding for a 9.7% year-on-year increase in sales next quarter. Looking further ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 8.5% over the next 12 months. Although this projection indicates its newer products and services will catalyze better top-line performance, it is still below average for the sector. Today's young investors likely haven't read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next. As an online marketplace, The RealReal generates revenue growth by increasing both the number of users on its platform and the average order size in dollars. Over the last two years, The RealReal's active buyers , a key performance metric for the company, increased by 18.5% annually to 985,000 in the latest quarter. This growth rate is among the fastest of any consumer internet business and indicates its offerings have significant traction. In Q1, The RealReal added 601,000 active buyers , leading to 157% year-on-year growth. The quarterly print was higher than its two-year result, suggesting its new initiatives are accelerating user growth. Average revenue per user (ARPU) is a critical metric to track because it measures how much the company earns in transaction fees from each user. ARPU also gives us unique insights into a user's average order size and The RealReal's take rate, or "cut", on each order. The RealReal's ARPU fell over the last two years, averaging 5.5% annual declines. This isn't great, but the increase in active buyers is more relevant for assessing long-term business potential. We'll monitor the situation closely; if The RealReal tries boosting ARPU by taking a more aggressive approach to monetization, it's unclear whether users can continue growing at the current pace. This quarter, The RealReal's ARPU clocked in at $162.47. It declined 56.6% year on year, worse than the change in its active buyers . We were very impressed by The RealReal's number of users this quarter. We were also happy its EBITDA outperformed Wall Street's estimates. On the other hand, its full-year EBITDA guidance missed significantly and its EBITDA guidance for next quarter fell short of Wall Street's estimates. Overall, this quarter could have been better. The stock traded down 10.5% to $6.53 immediately after reporting. The RealReal's earnings report left more to be desired. Let's look forward to see if this quarter has created an opportunity to buy the stock. What happened in the latest quarter matters, but not as much as longer-term business quality and valuation, when deciding whether to invest in this stock. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here, it's free.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
2 Internet Stocks for Long-Term Investors and 1 to Approach with Caution
Consumer internet businesses are redefining how people engage with the world by giving them instant connectivity and convenience. The new habits they're cultivating are also unlocking the next leg of growth for the industry, which has gained 1.6% over the past six months. Investing here would have been wise - at the same time, the S&P 500 fell by 2%. Although these companies have produced results, only those with the widest moats will survive as emerging red-hot players pop up regularly to take their slice of the pie. Keeping that in mind, here are two resilient internet stocks at the top of our wish list and one we're swiping left on. Market Cap: $663.9 million Founded by consignment store aficionado Julie Wainwright, The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) is an online marketplace for buying and selling secondhand luxury goods. Why Are We Wary of REAL? Intense competition is diverting traffic from its platform as its active buyers fell by 7.7% annually Cash-burning history makes us doubt the long-term viability of its business model 23× net-debt-to-EBITDA ratio makes lenders less willing to extend additional capital, potentially necessitating dilutive equity offerings The RealReal is trading at $5.81 per share, or 22.9x forward EV/EBITDA. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than REAL. Market Cap: $5.24 billion Founded by Logan Green and John Zimmer as a long-distance intercity carpooling company Zimride, Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) operates a ridesharing network in the US and Canada. Why Are We Positive On LYFT? Active Riders have grown by 10% annually, allowing for more profitable cross-selling opportunities if it can build complementary products and features Additional sales over the last three years increased its profitability as the 42.5% annual growth in its earnings per share outpaced its revenue Free cash flow margin jumped by 18.9 percentage points over the last few years, giving the company more resources to pursue growth initiatives, repurchase shares, or pay dividends Lyft's stock price of $12.42 implies a valuation ratio of 10.6x forward EV/EBITDA. Is now a good time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it's free. Market Cap: $41.14 billion With a mission to democratize finance, Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) is an online consumer finance platform known for its commission-free stock and crypto trading. Why Is HOOD a Good Business? Customers are spending more money on its platform as its average revenue per user has increased by 43.1% annually over the last two years Incremental sales significantly boosted profitability as its annual earnings per share growth of 41.2% over the last three years outstripped its revenue performance Free cash flow margin increased by 1,104 percentage points over the last few years, giving the company more capital to invest or return to shareholders At $45.88 per share, Robinhood trades at 21.2x forward EV/EBITDA. Is now the right time to buy? See for yourself in our in-depth research report, it's free. The market surged in 2024 and reached record highs after Donald Trump's presidential victory in November, but questions about new economic policies are adding much uncertainty for 2025. While the crowd speculates what might happen next, we're homing in on the companies that can succeed regardless of the political or macroeconomic environment. Put yourself in the driver's seat and build a durable portfolio by checking out our Top 5 Strong Momentum Stocks for this week. This is a curated list of our High Quality stocks that have generated a market-beating return of 175% over the last five years. Stocks that made our list in 2019 include now familiar names such as Nvidia (+2,183% between December 2019 and December 2024) as well as under-the-radar businesses like United Rentals (+322% five-year return). Find your next big winner with StockStory today for free.
