Priceline.com Tops Bloomberg Businessweek 50

							Priceline.com Tops Bloomberg Businessweek 50
Annual ranking highlights the 50 top-performing stocks over the past five years

June 17, 2010 12:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time  

NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Online discount travel agency Priceline.com tops the 2010
Bloomberg Businessweek 50, the ranking of the 50 top-performing stocks over the past five years. Rounding out the
top five are Intuitive Surgical, Southwestern Energy, Apple, and salesforce.com.

In a period of tremendous economic turbulence, the stocks on the Bloomberg Businessweek 50 returned an
aggregate 222.3 percent to shareholders, including reinvested dividends. Those who invested $10,000 in this 
portfolio five years ago and kept it there would have $32,250 in their pockets today. The S&P 500 index, over the
same period from Mar. 31, 2005, to Mar. 31, 2010, returned 10 percent. 

The Bloomberg Businessweek 50 is a reminder of the American economy’s ceaseless ability to renew itself. Strongly
represented are old-line companies, including Union Pacific (No. 44), Peabody Energy (No. 49), and Cliffs Natural 
Resources (No. 9), all of which date back to the 1800s. The forces of innovation powered others up the ranks, from
Apple (No. 4) and Google (No. 16) to biotechnology players such as Celgene (No. 13) and Gilead Sciences 
(No. 26), a leader in drugs to fight HIV. 

This year’s No.1, Priceline.com, nearly died in the dot-com bust and again in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001. Thanks to the management smarts of CEO Jeffery R. Boyd, who took over the top job in
2002, the company reinvented itself and went on to score a total return of 911.9 percent for shareholders over the 
past five years.

The companies in the Bloomberg Businessweek ranking vary dramatically by size, from midcap salesforce.com
(No. 5) to behemoths such as Hewlett-Packard (No. 28), the largest company on the list, with sales of 
$114.6 billion. On a percentage basis, it’s harder for big companies to generate incremental growth, which helps
explain why so many large, successful U.S. corporations didn’t make our cut. Conversely, growth stocks are more
prone to volatility. That makes the long-term success of our smaller superstars even more impressive. Regardless of
market value, all 50 companies made the list by honing competitive edges through good times and bad.

The Bloomberg Businessweek 50 ranking is featured in the June 21-June 27 issue, on newsstands June 18th.
Expanded content, including an interactive table and slideshow, will be available on Businessweek.com at 5:00 pm.

The 2010 Bloomberg Businessweek 50
Rank Company                                  5 Year Return
1    Priceline.com                            911.9%
2    Intuitive Surgical                       665.6
3    Southwestern Energy                      473.9
4    Apple                                    463.8
5    salesforce.com                           396.7
6    Express Scripts                          366.8
7    Flowserve                                342.2
8    FMC Technologies                         310.4
9    Cliffs Natural Resources                 306.9
10   Amazon.com                               296.1
11   Titanium Metals                          278.6
12   Cummins                                  278.3
13   Celgene                                  263.9
14    DeVry                          248.2
15    Precision Castparts            231.7
16    Google                         214.1
17    Range Resources                206
18    Western Digital                205.8
19    Big Lots                       203
20    Cameron International          199.7
21    Airgas                         181
22    Red Hat                        168.3
23    CSX                            163.8
24    Medco Health Solutions         160.5
25    Occidental Petroleum           159
26    Gilead Sciences                154.1
27    BMC Software                   153.3
28    Hewlett-Packard                152.8
29    Quanta Services                151.1
30    Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 150.4
31    McDonald’s                     146.8
32    Akamai Technologies            146.7
33    Stericycle                     146.6
34    Ventas                         145.2
35    Millipore                      143.3
36    Allegheny Technologies         138.3
37    FMC                            135.8
38    Diamond Offshore Drilling      134.5
39    DirecTV                        134.5
40    C.H. Robinson Worldwide        134.1
41    American Tower                 133.7
42    Monsanto                       132.8
43    Amphenol                       130.1
44    Union Pacific                  127.9
45    Noble Energy                   123.5
46    Polo Ralph Lauren              123
47    Cognizant Technology Solutions 120.7
48    NVIDIA                         119.4
49    Peabody Energy                 116.6
50    AmerisourceBergen              114.9

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