If you picked a stock at random from the S&P 500, held for this entire year, you had a 62% chance of a positive return, and a 31% chance of beating the market.*
How did your individual picks compare? Yeah, one year of performance doesn't give you the full picture, and conviction in a stock stretches to what is possible long term. But I find it a humbling experience to compare. Have you done well with Semiconductors? Or burned by SaaS and Appearal? Or both?
*Not accounting for dividends or stocks joining/removed from the index.
Source for component performance YTD, but this probably resets tomorrow!
https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/performance