Best and Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Year-to-Date

While there haven’t been any S&P 500 100% gainers so far in 2014, the staff at BespokeInvest.com still thinks it’s important to review the biggest winners and losers and they also point out the key factor that traders should watch over the remainder of the year.
The average S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) stock is up 5.89% year-to-date, and 65.4% of the index is in the black for the year.  Below is a list of the 40 best performing S&P 500 stocks, so far, this year.
As shown, there aren't any 100% gainers in the index through Tuesday, and we're going to need to see some big gains over the next three and a half months if the index is going to register any doubles this year.  New Field Exploration (NFX) is currently the biggest winner in 2014 with a gain of 63.82%.  Another energy company—Nabors (NBR)—ranks second with a gain of 58.09%.  Under Armour (UA), Electronic Arts (EA), and Green Mountain (GMCR) round out the top five, all with YTD gains of more than 50%.  (more)

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