Tesla, Apple and Amazon among the most popular stocks, but Coinbase also pops up

The ranking of the most popular stocks in the markets this year presents a curious and interesting novelty: in addition to the usual Tesla, Apple and Amazon, Coinbase also appeared in the top ten.
Tesla turned out to be the most popular stock, followed by Apple and Amazon. But there are also differences between the different generations.

Tesla, Apple, Amazon, and Coinbase: top stocks among veterans

Note that there are already significant differences between the so-called "silent generation" and the baby boomers.
The silent generation consists of 80- and 90-year-olds, and while they too prefer Tesla in second place, they put Lloyds Banking and NVIDIA in third. Apple, however, is still in fourth place, and Amazon is not even in the top ten.
Curiously, Netflix and Rolls-Royce are also on the list.
This is also the segment of investors who, on average, are the most successful in the trade, probably due to the considerable experience gained over the years. To be clear, this is Warren Buffett's generation.
Their winning strategy seems to be to hold on.
On the other hand, the baby boomers, who are in their sixties and seventies, put Apple and Amazon after Tesla. They curiously put China's Alibaba in third place, followed by NVIDIA and Meta (formerly Facebook).
Also in the top ten were Lloyds Banking, Microsoft, Alphabet (formerly Google) and Barclays.
Between the strategies of these two generations of veterans, however, there are many similarities.

Young Adults (Generation X)

However, habits change when you consider the behavior of younger generations.
Generation X 40- and 50-year-olds don't differ that much from baby boomers, but Coinbase ranks ninth.
This is very curious, both because Coinbase stock performed very poorly in 2022 and because it is a stock with a very low market capitalization compared to others.
For example, they put Alphabet in eighth place with a capitalization of nearly $1,370 billion, while Coinbase, by contrast, has a capitalization of about $14 billion.
However, they ranked Credit Suisse in tenth place, with a capitalization of only about $14 billion before the April crash.
Members of Generation X are the oldest generation to have Coinbase as one of the top 10 stocks, with Credit Suisse as the only one.
Millennials, or those in their thirties and twenties, also have Coinbase in ninth place, but Amazon dropped to fifth and NIO to tenth.
NIO has less capital than Coinbase and is a well-known Chinese manufacturer of electric cars: it is something like China's Tesla. It is the only generation that has NIO in the top 10, and it is also the generation that has the lowest stock level.

Very young and a choice of stocks between Tesla, Apple, Amazon and Coinbase

Interestingly enough, there isn't a huge difference in the top 10 of the so-called Generation Z, that is, teens and post-teens.
In fact, the top three still include Tesla, Apple and Amazon, with Meta in fourth place, NVIDIA in fifth and Microsoft in sixth.
However, GameStop, a nearly bankrupt "stock meme" that has retreated upward thanks to its community going public, stands in seventh place.
Gen X puts Coinbase in eighth place, and Alphabet drops to tenth. But perhaps most curiously, they are the only ones, along with 90-year-olds, to include Netflix in the top ten.

Coinbase on the stock exchange

The only real big surprise in this ranking is Coinbase, because the three dominant ones are taken for granted, as is the presence of Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet.
Alibaba only interests baby boomers and NIO only interests millennials. Nor is it surprising that members of Generation Z are interested in GameStop.
Of course, the top 10 90-year-olds are the most original and different, which may also be the reason why they are the ones getting the best results.
Coinbase is in almost all of the top 10 except the veterans, and that, coupled with the fact that this stock's performance has long been woeful, shows even better that the older generations earn more from trading than the younger ones.
Most likely, because they prefer to hold the stock, they actually lose less rather than gain more, since most traders suffer losses in the long run.
In other words, a more conservative strategy seems, on average, to be more effective when analyzing the mass results of traders, including casual amateurs.