The Best Stocks In The Past 12 Months And The Possible Next Winners

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 04:45 EDT - Seeking Alpha

By Arie Goren:Many different investors put their money in the stock market: some seek stocks of stable and well-known big companies, that pay dividend and have a minimal drawdown risk; others search for stocks that might yield extraordinary return, and for that they are willing to take a higher risk. Finding the next high flying stocks is not an easy task, and luck has surely something to do with it, but we might also get some idea by looking at the past twelve months best performers.In order to find the past twelve months best performers, but not to fall into the trap of very small companies, whose shares price is very low and each price change shows huge percentage change, we have decided to look only for companies that were included in one of the three S&P Indexes (total 1,500 companies):S&P 500 - The index includes 500 leading companies inComplete Story »

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