The Nifty Fifty were the fifty stocks that propelled the bull market of the early 1970s. Though many are still solid performers, several of these are now worthless.
- Emery Air Freight
- Avon Products
- Louisiana Home and Exploration
- American Home Products
- Merck & Co
- Schering
- Coca-Cola
- Gillette
- Eli Lilly & Co
- AMP
- International Flavors and Fragrances
- Xerox
- Eastman Kodak
- J.C. Penney
- Philip Morris Cos
- Lubrizol
- McDonald's
- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
- Procter & Gamble
- Chesebrough Ponds
- General Electric
- Heublein
- International Business Machines
- Bristol-Myers
- Anheuser-Busch
- Johnson and Johnson
- Sears Roebuck & Co
- PepsiCo
- Revlon
- American Express
- Black and Decker
- Halliburton
- Pfizer
- Dow Chemical
- Texas Instruments
- Baxter Labs
- Walt Disney
- Polaroid
- Upjohn
- Squibb
- Simplicity Patterns
- Schlumberger
- Joe Schlitz Brewing
- M.G.I.C. Investment Corp
- S.S. Kresge
- International Telephone and Telegraph
- First National City Corp
- Digital Equipment Corp
- Burroughs American Hospitality Supply Corp