{"id":85287,"date":"2009-12-16T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-16T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:22:00","slug":"the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/85287","title":{"rendered":"The Best Performing Stocks Of The Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12\/\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12\/green-mountain-coffee-roasters-gmcr-78954-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=b1b9b914646595493bd6fb00\" border=\"0\" alt=\"coffee021309\" \/><\/a>Want to get really rich? Go back in time and trade stocks with full knowledge of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you can&#8217;t do that, but if you could, here&#8217;s a guide.<\/p>\n<p>Eddy Elfenbein over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossingwallstreet.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/top_stocks_of_t.html\">Crossing Wall Street <\/a>compiled the following list of top performing stocks since January 1st, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpicks.com\/post\/show\/537414\/Best-Performing-Stocks-of-the-Decade-1900-to-7900-Gains\">criteria<\/a> for the list was dead simple:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Any stock traded on a US exchange that had a price of at least 50 cents on 12\/31\/99.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>To have bet on these stocks ten years ago would have made you incredibly rich. So rich, in fact, that if you invested $10,000 in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ten years ago, you&#8217;d have earned $789,540 &#8211; a 7,895.4% return on your investment.<\/p>\n<p>So, whether you missed out or made the right calls&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12\/\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12\/green-mountain-coffee-roasters-gmcr-78954-1\">Check out the best performing stocks of the decade -&gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-decade-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/where-wall-street-drinks-2009-12\">Where Wall Street Gets Drunk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/charts-of-the-week-why-is-apples-stock-diving-2009-12\">CHARTS OF THE WEEK: Why Is Apple&#8217;s Stock Diving?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-sorry-aols-stock-is-a-dog-2009-12\">Sorry, AOL&#8217;s Stock Is A Dog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/tSGfAnsCoGk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get really rich? Go back in time and trade stocks with full knowledge of the future. Well, you can&#8217;t do that, but if you could, here&#8217;s a guide. Eddy Elfenbein over at Crossing Wall Street compiled the following list of top performing stocks since January 1st, 2000. The criteria for the list was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}