FAANG stocks, or Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), have defied gravity over the past decade, with all five of the companies' shares obliterating the S&P 500's performance during this period. Indeed, all of these companies more than doubled the market index over this timeframe, with Netflix impressively seeing a return approximately twenty times greater than the S&P 500.

These stocks continued outperforming more recently. Over the past five years, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, and Netflix rose 436%, 433%, 373%, 234%, and 196%, respectively, while the S&P 500 gained 105%.

But what's interesting about these companies is that they all still seem to be firing on all cylinders, even after growing so significantly. Even more surprising, the company with the largest market capitalization -- Apple -- may very well be the most attractive investment of the group.

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