Best Performing US Stocks Year To Date

The average stock in the Russell 3,000 is up 48.98% year to date, while the index itself is up 23.18%.  If you take out the top performing stock in the index, the average year-to-date change for all stocks drops to 45.8%!  That's because the top stock -- DDRX -- is up a whopping 9,319% in 2009.  The next best performing stock this year -- VNDA -- is up 1,980%, so DDRX is the leader by a wide margin. 

In the Russell 3,000, 72% of stocks are up so far in 2009, and 30.5% of the index is up more than 50%.  Four hundred and sixteen stocks are up more than 100%, 130 are up more than 200%, 58 are up more than 300%, and 9 are up more than 1000%.  Many traders like to buy the best performing stocks heading into the last month of the year with the idea that professional money managers will want to have these names on their books when end-of-year statements go out.  The stocks listed below are all up more than 325% in 2009.

Comments

[Michael]

Wow! That coffee stock must have had lots of pumping to get that high!

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