It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

Delighted that you're joining me this week.

Here in the United States of America,

it is Thanksgiving week.

In fact, I taped this last week because I'm away with my family.

And if you're an American, I hope you're somewhere with yours

and I hope you have a wonderful week. It's been an interesting year for the stock market. We're not that far from where we started

a year ago just about break-even which is kind of interesting although a few stocks

have really propelled the market and kept it up. I read an article in the last week

or so that on the S&P 500, there are only five stocks, Amazon, Google, or now Alphabet, of course,

Facebook, Microsoft, and General Electric, those five stocks, their gains, make up for all the other

495 combined.

So there are a lot of stocks that are down or haven't done much, but when you have a

stock like Amazon.com that has more than doubled, that really brings up the whole

S&P 500.

But otherwise, kind of an unexceptional year.

And yet still, a year to give thanks.

Certainly if you're an Amazon shareholder, you can give thanks. Certainly if you're an Amazon shareholder,

you can give thanks or if you're a Netflix shareholder,

which is the number one performer on the S&P 500

over this past year.

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