Are you sure you want to ignore 0?

If you can have a positive or negative ROI then a 0 ROI is a real
possibility.

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Thomas M." wrote in message
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Sorry that I could not respond sooner. I've been out sick the last
several days and have not been online much in that time.

I tried your solution and it works fine. However, now I have another
question. What if I wanted to go the other way and have a cell that shows
the smallest ROI in the range?

I thought this would be a simple matter of replacing "MAX" in the formula
with "MIN." The problem is that the ROI range contains 20 or so columns,
but only a few have actual data at the moment, so most of the formulas on
the ROI line equate to zero. Therefore, simply using the MIN function
always returns a zero. I tried to get around this by counting the number
of values in the ROI range that are not equal to zero, and then using the
SMALL function to return the smallest ROI that is not equal to zero. But
I couldn't get that working, and anyway I think that the way I was trying
to do it would only work for values greater than zero, and not in cases
where the ROI is negative.

How would I go about returning the smallest non-zero value--positive or
negative--in the ROI range?

--Tom

"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Try this...

Assuming your named range, Investment_Table, includes the first row of
column headers.

=INDEX(INDEX(Investment_Table,1,0),MATCH(MAX(ROI), ROI,0))

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Thomas M." wrote in message
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Excel 2007

I have stock investment data in a simple spreadsheet. The spreadsheet
is laid out so that company ticker symbols run across the top row, and
the details associated with each investment (share purchased, buy and
sell prices, breakeven price, ROI, etc.) are listed down the column.

Just for fun I would like to create a formula that shows me the
investment with the greatest ROI. Toward that end, I added a row called
ROI, added formulas to calculate ROI on each investment, and then named
the range. I can use MAX(ROI) to return the highest ROI. I would like
to enhance that formula so that it pulls in the company name. I tried
the following:

=HLOOKUP(MAX(ROI),Investment_Table,1)

That returns #N/A. I thought that since Investment_Table is an array
that maybe the formula needs to be entered as such, but that didn't make
any difference. So I did some reading on Excel's various lookup
functions but I just haven't had any luck. I know this is doable, in
fact I think I did something like this several years ago but I haven't
been able to find that file and I can't seem to recall how I solved the
problem previously.

How can I create a formula that will pick up the maximum ROI and return
the ticker symbol in row 1 of the same column?

--Tom