Top Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since the Lehman Bankruptcy

With the one-year anniversary of Lehman's bankruptcy now behind us, we updated our list of best performing stocks over the last year. Since the Friday before that weekend when Lehman went down and Merrill was taken over, the S&P 500 has declined by 16.2%. Over that same period, 89 of the 500 stocks (17.8%) currently in the S&P 500 are higher now than they were then. Of those, fifteen are up more than 30% (table below).

While the list is dominated with stocks from the Technology sector, one sector not represented on this list is Financials. Of the seventy nine stocks currently in that sector, only five have had a positive return in the post-Lehman world. These winners are FHN (21.7%), GS (15.2%), TRV (8.8%), JPM (6.3%), and BEN (3.9%).

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Comments

[sethmcs:]

Let's see the bottom 15. I never buy the top performers. The value is usually found in the bottom 15 or at least that is a place to start research.

Sep 14 10:25 PM

[RE Broker:]

The bottom 15 are broke or soon will be I suspect.

Sep 15 04:01 AM