As the 200 day and 20 day moving averages converge on our major indexes it appears we could be setting up for a material move in the indexes soon - either another leg up, or a potential reversal. Or maybe we'll surprise everyone and just go sideways for another 2 months. Either way, as we sit today I thought it would be interesting to look at the biggest winners by different market capitalizations over the past quarter (90 days). [Market capitalization is just a fancy way to say "size" of the company]
While "labels" are relatively arbitrary I've split the groups like this
- Mega Cap >$50 Billion
- Large Cap >$3 Billion but <$50 Billion
- Mid Cap >$1 Billion but <$3 Billion
- Small Cap >$250 Million but <$1 Billion
Outside of that the only other parameters I kept was to stick to stocks with decent volume (>200K shares traded a day) and >$10 stock price (again arbitrary but this removes a lot of the $1-$3 fluff that is the domain of daytraders)
Let's call this a "I wish" list as in... I wish I had been invested in these stocks, and had bought near the exact bottom and resisted the urge to sell even as I made 30, 50, 70% in a mere matter of months :) In each group I listed the top 10 performers and your return (average) if you had invested equally in each.
As would be expected the smaller you get, the larger the returns as there are more names, and huge rallies can move smaller fare much easier. And of course many of our old holdings litter the landscape - hello A-Power Energy (APWR) [May 27, 2009: A-Power Energy Hires CFO - The Stock that Got Away], Trina Solar (TSL),(once our largest position) LDK Solar (LDK), Yingli Green Energy (YGE), Sterlite Industries (SLT) [Jun 11, 2009: Reintroducing Sterlite Industries] and ICICI Bank (IBN). We've not owned Dendreon (DNDN) but one of our lucky readers hit the jackpot there. [How One Reader Found Dendreon] Can we read much into the list overall? Not really - much of it is the most beaten down of financials, auto related, and alternative energy plays.... many left for dead in the winter of February and March. If you had told me oil would be north of $70 already, I would of went 100% solar energy on March 6th - even if the companies are hemoraging money. I did look at quite a few auto dealers but focused on Auto Nation (AN) and Karmax (KMX); not the ones below. Never pulled the trigger as I was focused on valuations. Bank of Ireland (IRE)? Not so much.
Mega Caps: 77.5% Average
| Symbol | Company Name | % Price | Mkt Cap |
| BAC | Bank of America Corp | 121.7 | 83,046 |
| CS | Credit Suisse Group ADR | 85.8 | 54,255 |
| STD | Banco Santander ADR | 80.6 | 92,648 |
| RTP | Rio Tinto ADR | 80.4 | 68,245 |
| HBC | HSBC ADR | 79.8 | 156,698 |
| WFC | Wells Fargo & Co | 79.4 | 106,682 |
| OGZPY | Gazprom Rep 4 Ord Shs EDR | 69.2 | 139,906 |
| PTR | Petrochina Depository Receipt | 68.7 | 224,713 |
| SLB | Schlumberger NV | 55.6 | 74,393 |
| CEO | CNOOC ADR | 53.6 | 63,301 |
| AVERAGE | 77.5 |
Large Caps: 285.0% Return (thanks Bank of Ireland)
| Symbol | Company Name | % Price | Mkt Cap |
| IRE | Bank Of Ireland ADR | 882.8 | 3,158 |
| TCK | Teck Resources Ltd | 378.5 | 9,104 |
| BCS | Barclays ADR | 352.3 | 41,748 |
| XL | XL Capital Ltd | 200.5 | 4,040 |
| SLT | Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd | 184.3 | 10,512 |
| TX | Ternium SA | 174.9 | 3,737 |
| TTM | Tata Motors ADR | 173.4 | 4,758 |
| IBN | ICICI Bank ADR | 171.3 | 17,742 |
| ING | ING Groep ADR | 167.1 | 22,288 |
| IP | International Paper Co | 165.2 | 6,716 |
| AVERAGE | 285.0 |
Mid Caps: 294.1% Return
| Symbol | Company Name | % Price | Mkt Cap |
| DNDN | Dendreon Corp | 650.0 | 2,587 |
| ASH | Ashland Inc | 286.7 | 2,088 |
| AGO | Assured Guaranty Ltd | 285.0 | 1,373 |
| CEDC | Central European Distribution | 266.4 | 1,584 |
| TIN | Temple-Inland Inc | 264.2 | 1,377 |
| YGE | Yingli Green Energy Holding | 254.6 | 1,895 |
| FDML | Federal Mogul Corp | 248.6 | 1,105 |
| CETV | Central European Media Entprise | 233.2 | 1,306 |
| LDK | LDK Solar Co Ltd | 227.0 | 1,494 |
| AKS | AK Steel Holding Corp | 225.7 | 2,310 |
| AVERAGE | 294.1 |
Small Caps: 467.1% Return
| Symbol | Company Name | % Price Change Last Qtr. | |
| VNDA | Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1,465.6 | 329 |
| SAH | Sonic Automotive Inc | 696.3 | 432 |
| ABG | Asbury Automotive Group | 459.2 | 383 |
| FUQI | Fuqi International Inc | 359.4 | 381 |
| CSIQ | Canadian Solar Inc | 343.1 | 561 |
| CLMS | Calamos Asset Management | 298.6 | 289 |
| APWR | A Power Energy | 274.7 | 446 |
| PPO | Polypore International Inc | 259.5 | 496 |
| SPAR | Spartan Motors Inc | 258.6 | 365 |
| TSL | Trina Solar Ltd | 256.2 | 771 |
| AVERAGE | 467.1 | ||
