My quick review of the 5 year old "10x in 5-10 years" post
u/Xidium426 ·
Reddit — r/investing
· February 27, 2026 at 12:28
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The post is a retrospective review of a 5-year-old Reddit thread that asked for stock picks with potential for a 10x return. The author notes that almost none of the suggested stocks were successful.
The author's thesis is that predicting massive "10x" winners is nearly impossible, as evidenced by the poor performance of most suggestions from 5 years ago. They conclude that a strategy of diversification and focusing on slow, steady growth is superior.
Quality assessment: This is a retrospective observation, not deep-dive research (DD). It's an anecdotal reflection on the difficulty of stock picking, which serves as noise rather than actionable analysis.
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I got my notification for this 5 year old post asking about 10x stocks:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/lu6i2t/comment/gp54sbj/](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/lu6i2t/comment/gp54sbj/)
Almost nothing was a hit. PLTR was called out a few times but I only found one user, u/bignut09, That called out NVDA. I did not see APLD, CLS, MOD, ALM, FTAI, LQDA, VRT, BTU or SMCI. Those (and NVDA) are the top 10 performing stocks over the last 5 years.
I did find a lot of losing tickers: BYND, BB, CRSP, CRSR, MRNA, CISQ, BFLY, UPST and plenty of others.
I saw SOFI and ALLY called out but you would have been better off to stick your money in HYSA over the same duration.
What did I learn from this? It seems no one really knows anything except u/bignut09. To me looking for the next 10X seems to be almost impossible. Slow and steady growth seems to be a better target and diversification as always is key.
And crucially u/bignut09, what should we invest for the next 5 years?
The author reviewed a 5-year-old post about "10x stocks" and found that nearly all suggestions failed, with only one user correctly identifying a major winner (NVDA). This experience leads the author to conclude that chasing high-growth, speculative "10x" stocks is a losing strategy for most investors. Instead, they advocate for a more reliable approach. The author explicitly states that "Slow and steady growth seems to be a better target and diversification as always is key," which is a direct endorsement of a broad-market index investing strategy, best represented by an S&P 500 ETF like SPY. A broad market index will not capture the "10x" returns of individual outliers. The market could enter a prolonged downturn or a period of stagnation, leading to poor or negative returns.
This Reddit post, published February 27, 2026,
features u/Xidium426
discussing SPY.
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