Top 20 trades on the TSX/TSE in 2019 - Sharesight20

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In this Sharesight20 yearly trading snapshot we look at the 20 most traded stocks by Sharesight users on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX - also known as TSE in Sharesight) in 2019 and how these stocks performed during the year.

Let’s dive into 2019’s top 20 trades.

Top 20 Toronto Stock Exchange trades in 2019

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Investors using Sharesight traded Toronto Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) more often than any other stock listed on the TSE in 2019. Among the 5 most traded stocks, 3 were large financial institutions (TSE: TD, BNS & RY), one an energy company, Enbridge Inc (TSE: ENB), plus Vanguard’s FTSE Canada All Cap Index tracking ETF (TSE: VCN).

Investors also bought into the emerging theme of Cannabis/Marijuana related stocks in 2019 - with both Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSE: ACB) and Canopy Growth Corporation (TSE: WEED) breaking into the 20 most traded stocks on the exchange.

Now let’s look at the performance of these stocks in 2019.

Top 20 TSE trades in 2019 - performance

To calculate the performance of these stocks during 2019 we built a Sharesight portfolio domiciled in the same country as the exchange (to remove the impact of currency fluctuations) that contained these 20 stocks and invested an equally weighted (5% of the total portfolio) amount in each stock on January 1st 2019 (or the first listed date for stocks that listed after that date).

We then ran Sharesight’s Performance Report to calculate the portfolio’s 2019 performance. Here’s the results, ordered by Total Return.

Canadian ecommerce giant Shopify (TSE: SHOP) was the standout performer with returns of 173.61% in 2019. The top dividend performer was Enbridge Inc (TSE: ENB) with a healthy dividend yield of 6.97%.

Of the 20, Canopy Growth Corporation was the only stock to record negative returns during the year, with the stock down 25.44% during the period.

An equally weighted portfolio of these 20 stocks would have returned 25.86%, slightly outperforming an index tracking ETF such as Vanguard’s FTSE Canada All Cap Index ETF (TSE: VCN) which returned 22.02%.

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