80% Down for the Year

As of Friday's close, 80% of stocks in the Russell 3,000 are down year to date, and a whopping 17% are down more than 50%. 

In the chart below, we highlight the year to date change of each stock in the Russell 3,000 sorted by performance (100% to -100% scale).  As shown, the red takes up much more area than the green, and it gets pretty ugly towards the tail end on the right side.

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But we'll at least leave readers with some positives heading into Monday.  Below we highlight the 25 best performing stocks in the Russell 3,000 year to date.  At least there are some stocks up in this market!

Comments

[PastTense:]

Anyone care to characterize what types of companies these are? (I have heard of almost none of them)

2008 Oct 05 06:16 PM

[xpatUSA:]

P.T., due diligence would suggest Googling each company name in turn (use quotes). A lot of info can be discovered that way.

Happy Googling!

T.C.

2008 Oct 06 01:20 AM