5 Conscious-Capitalism Stocks You Should Buy Now

You may not expect to hear this from a podcast devoted to investing, but there are more important things than money.

Yes, when it comes to picking stocks, your instinct may be to single-mindedly seek out those with the best chances of delivering the highest possible profits. But Motley Fool co-founder and Rule Breaker Investing podcast host David Gardner puts an equal emphasis on choosing companies that reflect his best vision for the future and his ideas about what he'd like to see the world become. This, of course, lines up well with the growing movement known as conscious capitalism: ethically grounded free enterprise that hews to a higher purpose than pure profit and that respects all the stakeholders.

On this podcast, it's time for Gardner to pick another of his five-stock samplers, and this time around, his theme is just that: five conscious-capitalism stocks that he expects to beat the market over the next three-plus years. Those companies are Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY), NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE), Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ: ODFL), and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) -- and to understand why he picked them, you'll want to read on or listen in.