10 names that earned the most return per unit of risk — 2026-07-22
A point-in-time ranking of S&P 500 as of 2026-07-22, return measured against the volatility it took to get there, computed from the price history available on that date.
This is an archive edition. It was computed retrospectively from the price history that existed on 2026-07-22 — every series is truncated to that date before anything is ranked, so there is no lookahead in the result — but it was not published on the day. Archive editions carry no market commentary, because what the coverage was about that week cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
The ranking measures return earned per unit of risk, favouring shallow drawdowns, weighting return-to-risk (34%), 1-year max drawdown (26%), 1-year volatility (22%), 1-year return (18%). 500 names cleared the liquidity and history gates on that date.
The list
At #3, WDC had returned 712.0% over the prior year with 75.1% volatility and a worst drawdown of -37.4%.
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- 1Y
- +64.9%
- 3M
- +20.5%
- Volatility
- 24.0%
- Max drawdown
- -9.5%
- 1Y
- +54.2%
- 3M
- +22.1%
- Volatility
- 20.4%
- Max drawdown
- -10.9%
- 1Y
- +511.9%
- 3M
- +62.3%
- Volatility
- 70.7%
- Max drawdown
- -31.8%
- 1Y
- +75.8%
- 3M
- +21.2%
- Volatility
- 24.3%
- Max drawdown
- -11.8%
- 1Y
- +38.2%
- 3M
- +13.6%
- Volatility
- 17.3%
- Max drawdown
- -7.0%
- 1Y
- +65.7%
- 3M
- +16.8%
- Volatility
- 21.0%
- Max drawdown
- -10.1%
- 1Y
- +59.4%
- 3M
- +13.7%
- Volatility
- 18.1%
- Max drawdown
- -11.0%
- 1Y
- +712.0%
- 3M
- +45.1%
- Volatility
- 75.1%
- Max drawdown
- -37.4%
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Ranked 2 of 500 candidates, with the metrics and the factor breakdown that put it there.
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