“If you had a time machine – one powerful enough to propel you a decade into the past – would you cheat your way to wealth?,” Rick Munarriz writes for The Motley Fool via USA Today. “Would you buy the stocks that would go on to rule the market?”
“The good news is that you don’t really need a time machine. You just need to be smart, resourceful and perhaps a little bit lucky to use lessons from the past to predict the future,” Munarriz writes. “Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner recommended these top five performers in his investment newsletter services – sometimes even before the stocks began their masterful decade-long runs.”
The top 5 stocks of the past 10 years
1. Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN) 10-year return, 5,118%
Total return to investors (10 year, annualized): 47%
2. Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) 10-year return, 2,843%
Total return to investors (10 year, annualized): 39%
3. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) 10-year return, 1,094%
Total return to investors (10 year, annualized): 38%
4. Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG) 10-year return, 623%
Total return to investors (10 year, annualized): 32%
5. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) 10-year return, 927%
Total return to investors (10 year, annualized): 30%
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Those who bet on Steve Jobs – and didn’t panic – are sitting pretty today.
Priceline – must be – amazing.
– William Shatner
Now there is someone that probably did have a time machine.
if you go from lifetime of stock then M$ is up 50000% and aapl up 18000%.
I bought all in on aapl in 2007 so am sitting pretty though I wish I had bought more at the time.
Given that AAPL is valued at 10.5x earnings while NFLX is valued at 308.8 times earnings, it’s not hard to see why NFLX has outperformed AAPL. If AAPL had NFLX’s valuation it would have a share price of around $3,000 and a market cap of over $15 Trillion…
This is because NFLX is based on services, and AAPL is currently based on product.
And that’s changing. Quickly.
AAPL is about to skyrocket, IMO, and I’m buying as much as I can afford.
Great Scott!!!
What ever you do, don’t let this list fall into the wrong hands!
“You just need to be smart, resourceful and perhaps a little bit lucky to use lessons from the past to predict the future”
When it comes to investing in shares, there is very little correlation between what happened in the past and what will happen in the future. Nearly all financial investment business carry a warning along the lines of “Past performance is not a guide to future performance.”
Wow that’s some leadership, and to think Tim Cook’s been the head of Apple for that time.
Every time you read a headline like that it seems to be a troll free zone.
I wonder why?
Oh better add that /shjtt tag but just for fun I won’t define it.