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So we identified mining companies that saw at least 90% of their first quarter revenue from gold sales and that have outperformed the gold mining ETF in the past year.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Shares of small-cap tech stocks have outperformed their large-cap peers by an extreme magnitude.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Stocks with these characteristics have outperformed a universe of the top 700 market cap stocks without these characteristics by a cumulative 500 percentage points since 1999.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Regardless of how stocks are categorized, the above table supports the notion that for long-term investors building up nest eggs, stocks have outperformed bonds by wide margins.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Yardeni pointed out that exchange-traded funds focused on momentum stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 in April.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026