71 Stocks Leading the Nasdaq Higher

The NASDAQ has been outperforming the other major indexes by a large amount the past few weeks in particular; in fact we briefly turned positive on the year (pre Geithner song and dance Tuesday) in that index. I was curious to see what stocks have been driving the NASDAQ the past month, so I've compiled this list

Here are the criteria

Criteria

1. Market capitalization $750M+
2. Average trading volume 100K+
3. Stock price $10+
4. Return past 30 days 13%+
5. NASDAQ

A lot of old friends or former holdings around... unfortunately only Illumina is a current holding. The "adult education" stocks make their perfunctory appearance and we even have one financial Northern Trust (NTRS) - which is like State Street (STT) but with skill.

Symbol	Company Name	% Price Month	Mkt Cap
CVTX	CV Therapeutics Inc	61.0	953
COCO	Corinthian Colleges Inc	45.6	1,828
ILMN	Illumina Inc	39.4	4,312
VPRT	VistaPrint Ltd	38.3	983
ADVS	Advent Software Inc	36.8	766
SYNA	Synaptics Inc	35.1	902
SSRI	Silver Standard Resources Inc	32.8	1,280
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc	32.7	27,581
CYBS	CyberSource Corp	31.0	908
LIHR	Lihir Gold Sponsored ADR	30.0	4,756
NTRS	Northern Trust Corp	29.2	13,621
GOLD	Randgold Resources ADR	28.9	3,776
STAR	Starent Networks Corp	28.6	990
AKAM	Akamai Technologies Inc	28.6	2,924
BBBB	Blackboard Inc	28.2	925
SCHN	Schnitzer Steel Industries	27.7	1,186
MYGN	Myriad Genetics Inc	26.8	4,041
SBNY	Signature Bank	26.2	1,022
TRMK	Trustmark Corp	25.7	1,222
PAAS	Pan American Silver Corp	24.6	1,416
NITE	Knight Capital Group Inc	24.6	1,678
SEPR	Sepracor Inc	24.6	1,840
CREE	Cree Inc	24.5	1,850
THRX	Theravance Inc	24.3	952
LANC	Lancaster Colony Corp	22.7	1,127
NFLX	Netflix Inc	22.4	2,129
RVBD	Riverbed Technology Inc	22.2	801
BIDU	Baidu Inc	22.0	4,590
BEAV	BE Aerospace Inc	21.9	1,050
GMCR	Green Mountain Coffee	20.1	1,001
SOHU	Sohu.com Inc	20.0	1,808
UEPS	Net 1 Ueps Technologies Inc	19.7	812
AMSC	American Superconductor	19.6	781
ISIL	Intersil Corp	19.0	1,309
GOOG	Google Inc	19.0	112,695
SGEN	Seattle Genetics	18.7	826
MCRS	Micros Systems Inc	18.7	1,343
IDCC	InterDigital Inc	18.7	1,379
GBCI	Glacier Bancorp Inc	18.3	1,066
RCII	Rent-A-Center Inc	18.1	1,248
SYMC	Symantec Corp	17.7	12,315
NRGY	Inergy LP	17.4	1,231
CECO	Career Education Corp	17.1	1,982
SBAC	SBA Communications Corp	16.5	2,349
MELI	Mercadolibre Inc	16.4	753
MDAS	MedAssets Inc	16.3	813
STLD	Steel Dynamics Inc	16.2	2,242
LIFE	Life Technologies Corp	16.2	4,858
ODFL	Old Dominion Freight Line Inc	16.1	952
VRSN	Verisign Inc	16.1	3,869
HLTH	HLTH Corp	16.0	2,171
NTES	Netease.com Inc	15.8	2,528
OTEX	Open Text Corp	15.7	1,838
SNDA	Shanda Interactive	15.3	2,193
CPNO	Copano Energy LLC	15.0	914
UTHR	United Therapeutics Corp	15.0	1,627
PETM	Petsmart Inc	14.9	2,488
AUXL	Auxilium Pharmaceuticals	14.8	1,407
DNEX	Dionex Corp	14.7	879
MICC	Millicom International Cellular	14.5	4,939
XLNX	Xilinx Inc	14.4	4,860
CHSI	Catalyst Health Solutions Inc	14.1	1,047
MVSN	Macrovision Corp	14.1	1,469
SLGN	Silgan Holdings Inc	14.0	1,941
MATW	Matthews International Corp	13.9	1,193
ENER	Energy Conversion Devices Inc	13.8	1,238
LMDIA	Liberty Media Corp	13.6	9,760
IDXX	IDEXX Laboratories Inc	13.5	2,025
AAPL	Apple Inc	13.5	86,223
AMLN	Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc	13.4	1,757
HANS	Hansen Natural Corp	13.1	3,218

71 Stocks Leading the NASDAQ Higher

Comments

[Chakkar:]

Excluding stocks below $10 is normally good. But you risk losing out on some good quality names, e.g., MRVL. Good balance sheet; should be at the head of the semiconductor pack if techs rally.

Good screen nevertheless. ILMN had great results last week and I think the sector is a good place to be for outperforming the broader indices. For example, ISRG missed your screen ($102.65 to $112.09). With no further bad news, I believe it should also help the NASDAQ.

Feb 14 12:45 AM

[James Wilson:]

What a hoot !

All these companys stock up and banks remain low ??????

Don't these companies OWE BANKS MONEY ?

Don't they depend on Credit Lines from the Banks ??????

Feb 14 01:10 AM