Submitted By Trader Mark
As we are about to suffer (barring that miracle rally in the last 30 minutes) only the 2nd day of the past 25 where the S&P falls more than 0.5%, I thought I'd take a look at the best performers of the past 4 weeks. We have sold off many stocks the past 3 weeks in which the valuation jumped 25-35%+ so I was curious how common these types of move have been. The answer - quite! This data will exclude week 1 of the 5 week rally when many stocks made large oversold reversals. From there, another 81 names over $750M in market cap have been able to tack on at least 35%.
The criteria for this list are
- Market capitalization $750 Million+
- Average trading volume 200K+
- Stock price $10+
- Return of 35%+
Please note AIG is only on this list due to a huge reverse split... otherwise it would not of made the stock price requirement (which is there to exclude nanny state companies like AIG). Those marked in green we are long, those marked red we are short. Some remarkable performances off the March bottom in car rental companies i.e. Avis (CAR). Overall the list is dominated by "early cycle recovery" stocks (retail, industrial), along with the home builders, Las Vegas casinos, REITs, and strangely coal names. We covered (short) a few of the REITs on this list (thankfully) a few months ago...
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Symbol Company Name % Price Mkt Cap HGSI Human Genome Sciences Inc 391.3 2,239 AIG American International Group 96.2 3,367 MEDX Medarex Inc 96.2 2,058 UFS Domtar Corp 86.7 1,243 CENX Century Aluminum Co 77.9 859 BKD Brookdale Senior Living Inc 77.6 1,990 HMIN Home Inns & Hotels Management 76.5 1,091 CAR Avis Budget Group Inc 66.6 1,082 SOA Solutia Inc 66.4 1,349 HIG Hartford Financial Services Group 63.2 6,448 WYNN Wynn Resorts Ltd 62.3 7,495 OMX OfficeMax Inc 61.2 814 LVS Las Vegas Sands Corp 58.1 9,106 MAS Masco Corp 55.4 5,320 SLG SL Green Rlty REIT 53.9 2,589 AWI Armstrong World Industries Inc 53.3 1,622 MAC Macerich Co 53.1 2,154 CBS CBS Corp 52.4 6,974 FIC Fair Isaac Corp 51.9 1,094 CNA CNA Financial Corp 50.1 5,967 R Ryder System Inc 49.8 2,243 SIVB SVB Financial Group 48.5 1,275 MEE Massey Energy Co 48.3 2,610 LNC Lincoln National Corp 47.9 7,293 SPSS SPSS Inc 47.7 916 FITB Fifth Third Bancorp 47.1 8,621 SXCI SXC Health Solutions Corp 47.0 1,025 JNY Jones Apparel Group Inc 46.2 1,298 TXT Textron Inc 45.7 3,997 IBOC International Bancshares Corp 45.7 1,072 ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc 45.5 8,655 GT Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co 45.3 4,431 TEN Tenneco Inc 45.3 754 EXBD Corporate Executive Board Co (The) 45.2 878 SVVS SAVVIS Inc 44.8 923 ARE Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc 44.7 1,966 BDN Brandywine Realty Trust REIT 44.4 941 AGO Assured Guaranty Ltd 44.0 2,831 LEN Lennar Corp 44.0 2,410 WBS Webster Financial Corp 43.1 841 GET Gaylord Entertainment Co 43.1 763 CISG CNinsure Inc 43.0 958 HBI Hanesbrands Inc 42.1 2,005 CTX Centex Corp 41.9 1,553 WX WuXi PharmaTech Cayman Inc 41.6 848 PHM Pulte Homes Inc 41.2 3,295 LULU lululemon athletica inc 41.2 1,437 FWLT Foster Wheeler Ltd 41.0 3,841 THO Thor Industries Inc 40.3 1,485 BDK Black & Decker Corp 39.2 2,611 DOW Dow Chemical Co 38.9 26,120 FUQI Fuqi International Inc 38.7 781 HOT Starwood Hotels & Resorts 38.6 5,470 HHS Harte-Hanks Inc 38.6 849 TTM Tata Motors ADR 38.5 5,374 CAT Caterpillar Inc 38.1 29,306 CBT Cabot Corp 38.1 1,320 CSL Carlisle Companies Inc 38.0 2,030 SM St Mary Land & Exploration Co 37.2 1,797 AIV Apartment Investment & Mgmt 37.1 1,346 M Macy's Inc 37.0 6,791 TCK Teck Resources Ltd 36.8 16,125 IR Ingersoll-Rand plc 36.8 9,477 GFA Gafisa ADR Representing 36.7 1,730 JWN Nordstrom Inc 36.6 6,439 SBUX Starbucks Corp 36.3 14,477 OC Owens Corning 36.3 2,679 CNW Con-Way Inc 36.3 2,322 BX Blackstone Group LP 36.2 3,902 EXPE Expedia Inc (Del) 35.9 6,568 EMN Eastman Chemical Co 35.8 3,976 WCG WellCare Health Plans Inc 35.7 1,049 WLT Walter Energy Inc 35.6 2,986 OEH Orient Express Hotels Ltd 35.6 1,024 PL Protective Life Corp 35.5 1,556 FDML Federal Mogul Corp 35.5 1,390 LAMR Lamar Advertising Co 35.4 2,102 RYL Ryland Group Inc 35.2 1,030 USG USG Corp 35.1 1,488 CSTR Coinstar Inc 35.1 1,076 TOL Toll Brothers Inc 35.0 3,732 
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