The companies I list here manufacture athletic shoes, a product whose sales are relatively unpredictable and subject to the whims of consumer demand.
Past performance is no guarantee of future performance.
This data is strictly historical information presented without endorsement of any given stock issue. Potential investors should examine all available data about a given stock, including but not limited to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, before investing. Of the ten I have been able to locate, nine of them made money for their investors in 1996 . The 1997 market may have been good on average, but it was unforgiving to sneaker investors. Only four of the ten went up in value during 1997.