Just 27.6% Of Stocks Outperform The Market While 60% Destroy Shareholder Wealth, New Study Finds

From 1926 through 2025, just 27.6% of stocks beat the broader market. Nearly 60% actually destroyed shareholder wealth, and the median stock delivered a lifetime return of -6.9%. Yet despite those sobering odds, U.S. stocks collectively created roughly $91 trillion in wealth over the last century, with just 46 companies responsible for half of it.

Those are some of the headline findings from a new study by Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, who examined the performance of nearly 30,000 U.S. stocks over the last century. The research paints a striking picture of how wealth is actually created in the stock market: while broad market indexes have generated exceptional long-term returns, the vast majority of individual stocks have failed to keep pace.

Bessembinder analyzed 29,754 publicly traded U.S. stocks between 1926 and 2025. Over that period, the overall stock market produced an annualized return of about 10.1%, turning every dollar invested into more than $15,000, according to the study, detailed in this white paper.

But those impressive aggregate returns mask an uncomfortable reality. The typical stock fared far worse. In fact, the median stock lost 6.9% over its lifetime, fewer than half of all stocks generated a positive lifetime return, only about 41% outperformed Treasury bills during the time they were publicly traded, and just 27.6% managed to outperform the market itself.

The reason is simple: stock market returns are incredibly uneven. While any stock can fall to zero, there is effectively no limit to how much a winner can rise. Over long periods, a tiny number of extraordinary companies generate gains so large that they more than offset the thousands of stocks that stagnate, disappoint, or disappear altogether. Those rare winners account for an outsized share of the market's overall success.

Perhaps the most surprising finding is that this concentration has become even more extreme. In Bessembinder's original research covering 1926 through 2016, 89 companies accounted for half of all shareholder wealth created by the U.S. stock market. After adding the last nine years of data, total wealth creation more than doubled to roughly $91 trillion, yet the number of companies responsible for half of it fell to just 46.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/just-276-stocks-outperform-market-while-60-destroy-shareholder-wealth-new-study-finds

A large group of foreigners armed with knives and sticks show up at the protestant area of Dungannon in Northern Ireland.

A police officer runs past them to arrest a local man who had picked up a stick to defend his community.

Two-tier policing…

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Trump Backs Hard-Hitting Russia Sanctions Package

Apparently the late Senator Lindsey Graham's hawkish neocon legacy will continue to reverberate from beyond the grave. The 71-year old lawmaker died Saturday night "from a brief and sudden illness" - immediately after returning from Ukraine where he had toured drone and weapons factories.

President Trump is expected to support the passage of a new bipartisan Russia sanctions package that was long spearheaded by Graham, according to CNN citing a White House official.

The South Carolina senator spent years trying to finally advance it across the finish line, but the Trump administration entered the White House loudly pushing diplomacy with Moscow and the idea that a swift end to the over four-year long war could be achieved by Trump's direct mediation and negotiating prowess. The policy reached an apex with the Trumpm-Putin Alaska summit, but failed to take off from there.

Instead, the world is currently witnessing the war's biggest escalatory phase in years, especially given the nightly major Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sites and infrastructure. Russia's aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including on the capital, has in turn stepped up.

The sanctions legislation would be America's toughest anti-Moscow move yet, greatly expanding on the original Sanctioning Russia Act:

Rather than requiring a presidential determination that Moscow had rejected peace efforts or violated a peace agreement, many sanctions would automatically take effect within 30 days of enactment.

The revised legislation would substantially broaden sanctions beyond Russian officials and financial institutions to include investment, sovereign debt, shipping, energy exports, uranium imports, financial messaging services, and other sectors of Russia's economy.

The legislation would also authorize the president to impose steep tariffs on imports from countries that continue purchasing Russian oil, natural gas, and uranium.

Pro-Ukraine hawks are salivating, with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, having announced that passing the bill would serve as a "fitting memorial" to Graham and everything he represented.

"There can be no more fitting memorial to Lindsey, his legacy, or the causes he fought for, than to pass this legislation and realize his long-held dream of an independent and secure Ukraine," she said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) agreed. He told reporters Monday that passing the legislation "would be a great legacy, great tribute to Lindsey."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/warhawk-grahams-final-mission-trump-backs-hard-hitting-russia-sanctions-package

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"Israel Is Threatening To K*ll Trump" - Israeli Military Expert Haim Bresheeth Zabner

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Grenade attacks across Israel target sushi chain in escalating feud between crime families

One lightly hurt in south Tel Aviv attack, with several bombings and shootings targeting Japanika, which is owned by Barak Abramov, thought to be tied to Jarushi gang

A series of grenade attacks and shootings overnight at a number of locations across Israel, some of them targeting branches of the Japanika sushi chain, are part of an escalating conflict between the Jarushi and Musli crime families, according to reports on Tuesday.

There have been around 15 grenade attacks over the past week, with one person lightly injured on Monday in south Tel Aviv in one of the explosions.

The Japanika chain is owned by Barak Abramov, who also owns the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team.

According to Walla, Abramov was initially seen as being close to the Musli family but is now thought to be tied to the Jarushi family.

“It’s enough to say good morning to someone, and the other side will throw a grenade at your home,” an underworld source told Channel 12 news. “There is a fear that this is just the beginning, and it may end in assassinations.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/2076912207028240719

Two of the attacks were in Tel Aviv, one of which caused the injury.

Medics who arrived at the scene of the explosion in Kfar Shalem, a neighborhood on the city’s southeastern outskirts, took the injured man to the hospital.

The Musli family rose to power in Kfar Shalem and the nearby Hatikva neighborhood, and is one of the last remaining Jewish crime families in Israel. The Arab Jarushi family is also based in the center of the country.

The second explosion was also caused by a grenade, police said, adding that it did not result in any injuries.

Officers and bomb disposal experts from the South Tel Aviv police station were present at both crime scenes and collecting evidence.

Grenade attacks were then reported in Herzliya and Ness Ziona, causing damage to property but no injuries.

A short time later, three branches of the Japanika sushi chain — in Afula, Kiryat Ono and Netanya — were attacked, and then an eighth attack took place in Rishon Lezion.

Police said some of the attacks appeared to have used grenades stolen from the IDF.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2076921875825824252

https://www.timesofisrael.com/grenade-attacks-target-sushi-chain-in-escalating-feud-between-crime-families/

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Trump cares only about his own property deals and rich investors. Average Americans get screwed with prices too high to buy.

Trump openly admits he cares more about higher asset prices than regular people affording homes. Record high prices already crush young buyers and families while he pushes for more increases.

Donald Trump on his housing affordability plan, in his own words:

—"It's so unimportant"

—"It's a big yawn"

—"I don't think about Americans' financial situation"

—"I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up"

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https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-cares-only-about-his-own-property-deals-and-rich-investors-average-americans-get-screwed-with-prices-too-high-to-buy/

https://www.jpost.com/

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Ben Shapiro praises Lindsey Graham as possibly "one of the best senators of all time," noting how he stood staunchly with "our allies like Ukraine and Israel."

He says you know he's great because the "echo chamber of evil"—Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Hasan Piker, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes—all opposed him.

He blasts this "echo chamber of evil" for working together on "destroying America" and undermining our allies (i.e., Israel).

https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2077094182020342060

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Sen. Ted Cruz: "It is ubiquitous online that this war [with Iran] is for Israel. People say, 'I don't want my children to die for Israel!'"

"This is not for Israel—this is for America!"

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims Palantir's products have "stopped hundreds and hundreds of terror attacks."

He insists that "Europe as we know it now" "would not exist" if not for Palantir, as "rampant" terror attacks would have propelled the far-right into power.

https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2076752631930687987

Mossad Recruited Ex-Iranian President In Plot That Didn’t Happen

Israel spent several years cultivating former hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential replacement for the country’s leadership, according to a July 13 report by The New York Times.

The alleged plot reportedly included a meeting between Ahmadinejad and Mossad chief David Barnea on the sidelines of an academic conference in Hungary, and culminated in a strike on the former president’s bodyguards, freeing him from house arrest on the opening day of the American-Israeli war on Iran in February.

A car spirited Ahmadinejad to a safe house following the strike, the report says, though he later left it after growing disillusioned with Israel’s plan to install him.

Ahmadinejad’s current whereabouts are unclear. The Times report says he was briefly glimpsed, masked and surrounded by guards, at the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and is believed to be in the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over his ties to Israeli intelligence.

According to the report, Hungary invited Ahmadinejad to a 2024 climate conference in Budapest specifically to arrange a meeting with Barnea. Ludovika University of Public Service Rector Gergely Deli was reportedly asked by a senior Hungarian official to extend the invitation, and was told it would serve as cover for a meeting with Mossad agents.

Ahmadinejad, a staunchly anti-Israel conservative, served two terms as president from 2005 to 2013 as a hardline figure in Iranian politics. After leaving office, he was repeatedly barred from running in subsequent elections.

In the years since, he emerged as a vocal critic of the Khamenei government, accusing senior officials of corruption and mismanagement while cultivating a more moderate public image and positioning himself as a champion of ordinary Iranians.

The Times report claims Ahmadinejad eventually concluded he could not return to power within the existing system, and came to view foreign intervention as his only route back to leadership.

A close associate told the paper that Ahmadinejad saw himself as a reformer, and believed Iran would recognize Israel once he came to power. The associate also said Ahmadinejad feared the United States and Israel might instead impose an outside figure, which he worried would plunge the country into chaos.

Israel’s first contact with Ahmadinejad reportedly came during a 2023 trip to an environmental conference in Guatemala. Iranian security services initially blocked him from flying, the report says, but relented after social media posts and a sit-in protest.

He met with Israeli agents in Budapest a second time in June 2025, just days before Israel launched the opening strikes of its twelve-day war, according to the report. During that visit, he reportedly slipped his IRGC bodyguards on two separate occasions, and Israel is said to have covered his housing and travel costs.

The Times report notes that Israel’s broader plan to topple the regime — which also involved a planned Kurdish uprising — ultimately failed, though it offers few further details.

A separate report from Israel’s Channel 13, published April 13, offered additional detail on the alleged operation, which it said the Mossad had code-named “Puss in Boots.”

https://southfront.press/mossad-recruited-ex-iranian-president-in-plot-that-didnt-happen/