10 Best Performing Stocks Of 2012

The Year's 10 Best Stocks
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 28: A trader works on the last day of trading for 2012 at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on December 28, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. The DAX index of Germany's largest corporations finished the year at over 7,500, which represents a strong increase for the year. At the same time one year ago the index stood at just under 6,000. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 28: A trader works on the last day of trading for 2012 at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on December 28, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. The DAX index of Germany's largest corporations finished the year at over 7,500, which represents a strong increase for the year. At the same time one year ago the index stood at just under 6,000. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

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Last year’s profile of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 was a depressing read full of mining concerns, discount stores, and credit-card companies trading up on regulatory favors. This year’s list is a more optimistic, more diverse collection, not least because the market as a whole did much better. Cabot Oil & Gas topped last year’s list at 107 percent growth, which would only be good for fourth place this time around. Visa’s 43.19 percent growth last year wouldn’t have made the top 40 this time around. Corporate America, in other words, had a much stronger run in 2012. These are the companies you wish you’d bought last Christmas:

10. Gilead Sciences

The Best Performing Stocks Of 2012

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