The temperatures may still be mild in much of the country, but Mother Nature's not fooling the calendar... Thanksgiving is just a week from tomorrow. Then comes the holiday shopping season, and before you know it, we're in 2008.It's been an interesting year for stocks so far, what with the private-equity bum rush that fizzled, a housing market that just won't snap back, and a little thing called "subprime." But nevertheless, both the Dow and the S&P have managed to hit new record highs. There have been plenty of bullish opportunities if you've been looking in the right places, and of course, there have been some absolute collapses as well.
Ahead of the Ides of November, I turned to the Quantitative Analysis group at Schaeffer's Investment Research, led by the fearless Joe Sunderman, for a list of the best, and worst, performers, year-to-date, in the S&P 500 Index. These rankings were pulled earlier today and do not include any dividend payouts.
The Top Five (since 12/29/2006):
Beth Gaston Moon is an analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
- National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV), up 112%
- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), up 102%
- Cummins (NYSE: CMI), up 101%
- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), up 100%
- Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC), up 99%
- E*Trade Financial (NYSE: ETFC), down78%
- Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC), down 68%
- Ambac Financial Group (NYSE: ABK), down 67%
- Tyco International (NYSE: TYC), down 67%
- Circuit City Stores (NYSE: CC), down 65%
Beth Gaston Moon is an analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-14-2007 @ 7:30PM
Sheldon L said...
S&P should add:
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) up 193%
and
Aluminum Co. of China (NYSE: ACH) up 145%