The best-performing stock in the SAP 500 over the past 20 years? This is a name you would never have thought of!

Did you ever think it would have been cool to invest in Microsoft 20 years ago? It would have been great, of course, but there are companies that would have been even better. And the best of them would probably never have occurred to you.

If you ask people which stock in the S&P 500 has been the best performer over the last 20 years, the answers are likely to be very techy. Apple? Amazon? Maybe Microsoft or Google? Well, none of them. Not even Tesla. It's not even a tech company at all. It's someone else entirely. A name you know but probably wouldn't have thought of! Monster Beverage Corporation $MNST, maker of some of the most popular energy drinks in the United States, whose stock price has risen more than 100,000 percent in the last twenty years .

The Corona, California-based company entered the still nascent energy drink market in 2002 and quickly established itself. In 2012, the former natural juice and soda maker changed its name from Hansen Natural to Monster Beverage after…