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

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

I'm David Gardner and it's a pleasure to be

joined by many new listeners. I'm really excited to see the success of our

podcast in its first several weeks. Number one in investing. Number nine overall last we checked iTunes not that we refresh every hour to check up

But it's exciting to see and know that so many of you are tuning in and I know we have a lot of motley fool members

And we have a lot of people who don't really know of Motley Fool and are just learning about investing for

the first time.

So a lot of different types of people to speak to, but it's my pleasure to do so each week.

I'm David Gardner.

I'm the host and I'm here this week to talk about

the top five stocks of the last 10 years. So I got a lovely letter from Roger King of

Tampa, Florida, a Motley Fool fan.

He just dropped me a note pointing out the Fortune 500 issue

which came out last month.

So the Fortune 500, which looks at 500

of the largest companies in the world, American companies, and looking

at the performance of those companies by many different metrics, one of which of course of

great concern to us is how their stocks returned. And I just want to go

over the top five companies and then draw five lessons about these companies. So the first

one is we're going to count them up. So we're going to start with number five, the fifth best

performer, Salesforce.com, which returned about 30% annualized from 2004 right through to the end of 2014.

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