The table below lists Bloomberg Businessweek‘s ranking of 50 companies in the S&P 500 index with the best total returns for shareholders over the last five years as of Mar. 31, 2010:
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Of all the companies in the S&P 500 it is surprising to see Priceline.com(PCLN), a dot-com company, top the list with the total return of 911.9%. Other notable hi-tech winners in this list include Apple (APPL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Akamai Technologies (AKAM).