Study
Anatomy of a Runner
8,792 documented runner years across 3,129 stocks between 1963 and 2025. This page shows what those runs have in common instead of celebrating individual winners. Every value is a median from the stored price archive, no selection and no estimate.
The typical run in median values
The median is more honest than the average: a single multi-bagger does not move it. This is the middle of every documented run.
Peak return in the year
+160%
Yearly return
+67%
Largest setback during the run
-43%
ADR over 20 days
+4.9%
Base length before the breakout
85
trading days
Base depth
-35%
Volume on the breakout day
3.9x
Prior run before the base
+25%
Runs per decade
The distribution follows market history: more liquid stocks and more data mean more documented runs. The median peak column shows whether a decade's runs were also larger.
What triggered the runs
Evidenced catalysts from news, earnings dates and official SEC filings in the window around the breakout. Runs without an evidenced catalyst are deliberately not included here.
Stocks with multiple runner years
2,062 stocks have more than one documented runner year. Repetition is the most interesting pattern in the archive: the same names return across decades, usually with a new product cycle.
| Symbol | Runner years | Span | Best peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | 20 | 1980 bis 2025 | +571% |
| MU | 16 | 1986 bis 2025 | +355% |
| CRUS | 14 | 1990 bis 2019 | +419% |
| SRPT | 14 | 2000 bis 2022 | +1199% |
| IDCC | 13 | 1986 bis 2025 | +1691% |
| AMSC | 12 | 1998 bis 2025 | +455% |
| CDE | 12 | 1987 bis 2025 | +824% |
| CLF | 12 | 2003 bis 2025 | +732% |
| FCEL | 12 | 2000 bis 2021 | +1131% |
| GERN | 12 | 1998 bis 2024 | +1045% |
| HL | 12 | 1980 bis 2025 | +497% |
| HOV | 12 | 2001 bis 2023 | +867% |
Historical review of completed runs. Not investment advice and no statement about future price development.
Back to the runner list