10 best performing US stocks in last 10 years

To make millions or billions of fortunes from investing a penny is every financial planners dream.

Therefore, they are continuously in search of the best promising stock out of pool of stocks to

invest in. It is because of the simple reason that if they get success in identifying the winning

stock from the pool much before it actually takes off, then it will not only change the finances of

your client permanently but it will also change your career perspective as a financial planner

completely in a positive way.

In the process of finding highly successful companies from the past decade whose stocks

performed way beyond the market in the past decade, we will be analyzing their specific market

driving characteristics which not only helped these companies to out-grow but also boosted their

stocks to be the benchmark performer in their respective industries. And, thus with this analysis,

we will be able to pin-point future market winner stocks. In addition to that, with this analysis we

can also understand that all these top-performing stocks share some specific market driving

characteristics in common which not only makes them unique but also star-perform stock across

the industry.

Top-performer stocks of the past decade

In order to select 10 star performer stocks from the past decade, we will analyzing stocks across

industries from the beginning of 2006:

Stocks - Ranked by 10-Year Percent ChangeMonthly information as of Wed, Mar 18th, 2015, based on monthly data.

S.No Sym Name

10-YearPercent (2006 –

2015)

Market Cap As of

January 1st, 2006

Market Cap As of March 18th, 2015

1. PCYC Pharmacyclics Inc +9,505.98% $161.03 million $19.6 billion

2. REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals +9,054.60% $468.34 million $48.4 billion

3. MDVN Medivation Inc +7,349.58% $72.29 million $10.3 billion

4. GMCR Keurig Green Mountain Inc. +6,906.61% $162.3 million $ 20.0 billion

5. ILMN Illumina Inc +4,714.36% $240.32 million $28.1 billion

6. PCLN Priceline.com Inc +4,477.66% $908.53 million $61.4 billion

7. BSTC Biospecifics Technologies Corp +3,815.00% $5.95 million* $263 million

8. NFLX Netflix Inc +3,757.33% $995.5 million $25.6 billion

9. MNST Monster Beverage Corp +3,537.43% $397 million** $22.86 billion

10. ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals +3,298.62% $186.51 million $38.0 billion

Source: http://www.barchart.com/stocks/performance/10year.php and http://www.wikinvest.com/

*Market cap as of Q1 2005

**Market cap as of January 1st, 2005

Above is the list of 10 best performing stocks from the past-decade. These above companies

are not limited to one industry. They belong to diverse industry like online travel portal,

biotechnology, beverages, online streaming media etc. Below are some of the specific market

driving characteristics these stocks had which defined their winning attitude:

1. Small, unknown and ignored companies

2. Continuous innovation of their products by thinking way beyond the market:

3. Mergers & Acquisition for expanding market reach

4. Spending on Research & Development

1. Small, unknown and ignored companies – Back in 2006 most of the above listed companies

were so small in size as compared to fairly large companies that they went completely

unnoticed and ignored by any of the wall street analyst like their market cap was in the

range of $5.95 million of Biospecifics Technologies Corp to $995.5 million of Netflix as to

large companies with market cap in billions.

2. Continuous innovation of their products by thinking way beyond the market – One of the

most important market driving characteristic of above listed companies that they continued

their spree of innovation of their products like Monster Beverages formerly known as

Hansen Natural when they started back in 1930s they were selling natural juices and sodas

as it was the demand of the customer of that time and now they are making big money by

selling energy drinks, Priceline.com Inc has disrupted the travel ticketing industry by

introducing Name Your Own Price system where it let traveler name their price for airline

tickets, hotel rooms, vehicle renting and holiday packages thus it helps users to get

discounted rates for their travel or vacation related packages etc., Netflix Inc when started in

1997 it disruptive the DVD/ disc rental industry which was based on traditional pay-per-

rental model along with late fee applied on over dues to a DVD/ disc rental company based

on monthly subscription concept i.e., flat-fee with unlimited rentals without due dates and

then with the growing usage of the internet across the world Netflix Inc is now not only

providing online streaming media available to the audiences of entire North America

including Cuba, South America and parts of Europe (i.e., Denmark, Ireland, The

Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria,

Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany) but also providing flat rate DVD-by-mail to the users of

entire United States.

3. Mergers & Acquisition for expanding market reach - Keurig Green Mountain was formerly

known as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, back in 1981 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

started as a small café in Waitsfield, Vermont roasting and servicing coffee. But as the

demand of the coffee grew they acquired many companies like Keurig a manufacturer of

single-cup brewing system in 2006, the wholesale division of Canadian coffee

provider Timothy' World Coffees in 2009, Quebec-based coffee services company Van

Houtte – a second Canadian distributor in 2010, an agreement with Dunkin' Donuts in which

Dunkin’ Donuts coffee can be available in single-serve K-Cups. Thus, currently Keurig

Green Mountain company offers more than 100 different coffee selections such as certified

organic, Fair Trade Certified, estate, specialty blends and flavored coffees etc. under its

name and Newman’s Own Organics brands,

4. Spending on Research & Development – Current century is the century of biotechnology

where biotech industry is playing significant role in developing new medicines to cure deadly

diseases. Therefore, in the development of new medicines or drugs these so called small

companies or startups played a major in getting a break through like Pharmacyclics Inc’s

developed a drug called Imbruvica for the treatment of 1. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

(CLL) who have received at least one prior treatment 2. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

with 17p deletion 3. Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM) and 4. Mantle cell lymphoma

(MCL) who also who have received at least one prior treatment, Regeneron

Pharmaceutical's macular degeneration drug called Eylea, Illumina Inc's revolutionary

research on genetic sequencing, and Alexion Pharmaceutical's got the success in

developing rare-blood disorder treatment called Soliris etc.

In the last, it can be said that as a good financial planners it is important that once you find a

future winning stock then don’t let it go. Hold these stocks for at least 5- 10 years to realize its

real fortune. Because these companies have the tendency to continue innovating their products

to disrupt the traditional industry drivers and continuous fighting spirit to define new industry

standards and striding for new growth opportunities, increasing their market reach/ share,

extending their market penetration across the world. And last but not the least, continue your

search in finding these kind of future winning stocks.