Shiba Inu delivers stronger 5-year returns than Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P 500—highlighting its rally despite being a high-risk meme coin.
If buyers had initially put $1,000 into SHIB tokens, it would have been the biggest investment of a lifetime.
Yes, Shiba Inu’s 5-year gains were so substantial that they were higher than the profits of the NASDAQ Composite, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the S&P 500 index.
Even the US stock market hasn’t given back that much money in five years like SHIB did.
The NASDAQ, Dow Jones, and S&P 500 all give in to the Shiba Inu.
Shiba Inu was trading on the indices for $0.000000000056 (10 zeroes) in August 2020, just a few days after it came out. At that time, investors could have built up a collection of about 17 trillion SHIB tokens with a $1,000 purchase.
If $1,000 had been invested in Shiba Inu, it would have made huge profits much bigger than the NASDAQ index.
The dog-themed coin lost six zeroes between August 2020 and July 2025. It now trades with four zeroes on the charts.
Its value has grown by 20 million percent in five years, now worth $0.00001174. NASDAQ has only gone up 93% in the same five years that Shiba Inu has gone up 20 million percent.
NASDAQ is the only other stock that has increased 70% in five years. The S&P 500 average has gone up 96% since 2020, which isn’t even close to Shiba Inu’s returns.
Today, the $1,000 you put into the 17 trillion tokens could be worth $199.5 million if you had kept them from 2020 to July 2025. That’s a fantastic return that even the best stocks couldn’t match in such a short time.
You made less than $2,000 from the $1,000 you put into NASDAQ, Dow Jones, or the S&P 500 index. To sum up, Shiba Inu has done much better than NASDAQ, Dow Jones, and the S&P 500 index by a much bigger margin.
That being said, its price is decreasing and it may not make as much money.
