What’s the point of investing in stock if almost all of them will not beat the market?
u/Pure_Evidence638 ·
Reddit — r/ValueInvesting
· July 16, 2026 at 21:33
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Post questions the value of individual stock picking, arguing most stocks underperform the market and retail investors cannot consistently beat indices.
Author’s thesis: even Warren Buffett underperformed over the last 10–15 years, making active stock selection futile for the average person.
Quality assessment: noise / speculation; no data, analysis, or specific stocks discussed.
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genuine question.
i am trying to purchase some companies I believe in, but the volatility is high and risk even higher… and many of them will not beat the market in 5/10Y anyway.
so I am asking myself: what’s the point?
I think that 99.9% of people here never beaten the market for 5-7 consecutive years (which is what many hedge funds do not do anyway..) so - genuinel- what’s the point?
can normal people be smarter than Wall Street IB? mostly not, or we will probably work as MD at Goldman and not write here..
what‘s your take?
edit: got it, people are pretentious and over optimistic.
but then what about the dearest Warren? He did not beat the market over the last 10-15y Because of tech… but losing 10-15y is quite a lot of time..