The 10 Best Stock last 10 year bull market - #5 Best: Netflix

MARKET VALUE: $157.0 billion

10-YEAR CHANGE: 6,438.4%

It’s no surprise that Netflix (NFLX, $359.61) has earned a spot on a list of the market’s top performers for the past 10 years. The company has not only ushered in the era of streaming video – it largely defined it.

That wasn’t necessarily the future that investors or consumers saw for Netflix as of the beginning of 2009. Yes, it had already offered streaming digital for a couple of years by that point, but it still was predominantly a mail-based DVD rental house that continued to compete with a weakened but lingering Blockbuster and its peers. The market was curious, but it didn’t see Netflix’s new project as a major threat to the well-entrenched cable television providers.

Talk about being wrong.

Today, Netflix is the streaming name to beat, boasting 146.5 million subscribers and flaunting itself as a provider to a majority of U.S. video viewers that subscribe to some sort of streaming platform. As of the middle of last year, 51% of the U.S. streaming market was paying Netflix customers, while the next nearest rival was Amazon Prime at a 33% share. Although many U.S. cord cutters now subscribe to two or more streaming video platforms, most of them are choosing Netflix as at least one of their services.

Actionable Items

Lessons I learn from Netflix stock watch

1. How to conduct research on a tech company?
2. How soon should I start? 
2002 -> 2019 17 years
2019, Sept. 18, it is the first time I check the price. 

2. How early I I knew Netflix?
I started to subscribe service 5 years ago, and then I stopped one year ago. 

3. Over five years ago, I learn that Netflix has highest salary for software engineers. 

I have to write down my journey from careless investor Dec. 2018, and then started personal finance research, and then April 2019 I started to go back to stock market, put all my funds in and learn to cut time to watch, and be a healthy investor. 

Sept. 18, 2019 is the first day I search Google to find out top performance stocks last 20 years.