Yes Folks, There Are Stock Winners

The bull rides again!

Not really, but believe it or not there are winners in the American stock market this year.

We are reporting that Wal-Mart (WMT) is the only Dow component that is higher for the year.   Sad but true, and says a lot about the weakness of this market.

The Dow and big caps get an unfair share of attention.   Time to tell stories is limited on TV.   But thankfully not on the internet.

I figured there must be some stocks that are up this year, not including those that are higher because they were bought out or some other event.   So with that optimistic thought in mind, I ran a stock screener searching for companies that have 1) a market cap of at least $1 billion dollars, 2) are higher in 2008 and 3) are higher in the past 52 weeks.

Here's the result of the search for companies meeting the criteria above:

ALXN, NSC, TECH, BAX, AMED, CPB, HBHC, CXO, WAB, NTES, NITE, NJR, SWN, RAH, STE, TFSL, FLO, WMT, ORH, ONB, GIS, MANT, HCBK, WABC, CRK, VRTX, CBST, HE, EQ, SQM, BRL, AMGN, DNA, PNY, FNFG, EMS, RKT, SF, CMP, STRA, UST, THOR, FFIN, ROH, MYGN, CFFN, FDO, DLTR, LG, VRX, PHLY

Notice how many are biotechs.