The best way to measure industry ROI is to check their performance in the American stock exchange market.  Based on Fidelity's financial statistics of the American stock exchange market, the last five years have been dominated by Technology Hardware, Storage u0026 Peripherals industry led by companies like Apple and Samsung with 402.62% stock value growth in five years.  They are followed by the Internet u0026 Direct Marketing Retail industry with 344.47% led by retail giants Amazon and eBay. The third highest growing industry of the last five years is the software industry with 334.23%.