3 Stocks That Look Just Like Priceline in 1999

For those of us in the United States, Priceline Group has long been associated with William Shatner and his "Name Your Price" promo. But it's so much more than that. The 2005 acquisition of Booking.com gave Priceline access to what has become one of the largest hotel booking websites in Europe and the rest of the world.

The network effect of Booking.com has given Priceline shareholders enormous returns. While the stock is only up 300% since the company went public in 1999, that's in large part because it went public at the precipice of the dot-com bubble. A $10,000 investment on the first day of 2001, on the other hand, would be worth almost $2.3 million today.

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Source: Fool.com