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down our picks for the top ten things
you wish you’d invested in since 2000
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say for this list we’re going over the
company’s stocks products and ideas that
have yielded some of the biggest profits
since the turn of the millennium and we
all wish we’d invested in early number
10 Microsoft let’s start our list with a
no-brainer
Microsoft is one of the biggest computer
companies ever there’s software and
operating system or basically the
de-facto ones for PCs everywhere founder
Bill Gates is one of the richest men in
the world pick the companies even
expanded into video games and managed to
corner practically 1/3 of the market
accordingly their stocks have risen
immensely with returns from the early
2000s ranging from 140 to over 400
percent growth Microsoft has been
generally reliable but it hasn’t changed
the game like some of our other entries
to come number 9
Bitcoin a cryptocurrency in a digital
payment system Bitcoin has been all the
rage of late and for good reason
here extremely valuable at one point in
2017 a single Bitcoin was valued at
around $20,000 shirts dropped since then
but it may very well go back up we might
have ranked Bitcoin higher but the
concept is still largely in its infancy
and its rapid drop in price indicates
that it’s not a stable investment the
difficulty in understanding exactly how
they work can also be quite the barrier
to investment although given how little
people understand regular stocks we
don’t see it stopping everyone number
eight gold what’s so exciting about gold
after all it’s been around for
practically as long as human
civilization well it’s basically been
the standard by which we judge the value
of other things as unlikely as it might
seem gold has been incredibly profitable
in the early 21st century and not
because of those cheesy cash-for-gold
ads if you’d bought an ounce of gold in
2006 you would have paid around 635
dollars that value would have gone up to
over $1,600 in only six years that kind
of return on a time-honored commodities
investment is nearly unheard of
number seven price line it’s not just
the big names that are worth investing
in
Priceline is a group of websites
including the eponymous one that started
it centered on comparing the best prices
for travel and holiday expenses like
airfare food and hotels the group’s
stock value has increased over 16 and a
half thousand percent since 2002 how
appropriate that investing in a vacation
planning site can help you afford more
vacations whether the explosive results
are due to the charisma of William
Shatner or the ease and utility offered
by the group’s websites it’s clear that
Priceline was a direct line to huge
profits number six Facebook now we’re
getting into the big leagues and even
bigger names Facebook has set the bar
for practically every social media site
out there and is the most popular one in
the world with over two billion users in
2017 that’s more than a quarter of
humanity since going public in 2012
Facebook’s early investors have seen a
return of some three hundred and fifty
percent on their investment making for
exceptional growth in only five years it
would take a massive shake-up in the
tech world to unseat Facebook from its
status as a cultural touchstone so its
continued success seems likely number
five
Alibaba well it’s not really in the
public eye much in the West Alibaba is
one of the ten largest and most
profitable companies in the world
it’s China’s number one online retailer
and its 2016 revenue was higher than
every US retailer combined since
alibaba’s IPO in 2014 after some initial
shakiness the company stock more than
doubled in value
leaving investors feeling like they’ve
said Open Sesame to easy profit given
the company’s expansion in a variety of
other specialties in China’s massive
population alibaba’s horde will not be
diminishing anytime
soon number for Netflix it’s almost
quaint how we all thought that putting
blockbuster out of business would be the
biggest thing Netflix would accomplish
from its beginnings as a DVD delivery
company Netflix has developed into a
dominant part of the media industry
essentially defining streaming services
and putting out more original shows and
films than any other network or platform
the company’s stock has risen
accordingly by over 6700 percent in one
decade people who got in early can sit
back for some Netflix and millions okay
most won’t have made that much but it’s
still a lot number three Amazon the
online marketplace that basically
started online marketplaces Amazon is a
massive Titan of e-commerce and they’ve
begun branching out to encompass
original television programming and food
services as well as we stated before
Alibaba exceeds us ecommerce platforms
and profits and that includes Amazon
however Amazon went public in 1997 which
along with making it more influential
also means its investors have had more
time to accrue profits $1,000 invested
in Amazon in 2007 would yield about 12
times that today which helped make its
founder Jeff Bezos the richest man in
the world in 2017 number 2 Google come
on everyone saw this coming this
technology company is best known for its
search engine which is now the most
popular website in the world
they’ve also branched out with a web
browser and a phone as well as
innovative technology like self-driving
cars Google also owns YouTube the most
popular video sharing platform and
probably where you’re watching this
video investments made in 2008 have
tripled in value and with all Google has
going for it it’s not hard to see why
though other stocks have seen bigger
growth Google’s unexpected and
consistent rise as well as its
diversification led us to choose it for
our penultimate pick
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions number
one Apple the 21st century has been good
to Apple which is good because the 20th
wasn’t at least towards the end of it
beginning as the chief rival of
Microsoft Apple success has been due to
their diversification getting into mp3
players smartphones and other devices as
well as their ability to market all
their products better than their
competitors they now stand as one of the
most recognizable brands in the world
while its 10-year return on investment
may not be as high as some of our other
entries an increase of six-fold over ten
years starting in 2007 Apple’s brand
power made it number one in our eyes so
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