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Miss a Stock...
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- Apr 13, 2026
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Summary
A century-long study by Hendrik Bessembinder reveals a stunning truth about investing: while the U.S. stock market produced enormous overall wealth, the vast majority of individual stocks were losers, with just 46 companies responsible for half of all gains. Don and Tom unpack what this means for investors—namely, that stock picking is essentially a losing game driven more by luck than skill, and that broad diversification through index investing is the only reliable way to capture market ret...