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Best stocks of 2014 so far

7/1/2014

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I have decided to check the best stocks of 2014 so far, to see what I have missed this year. The minimum market cap criterion was $300 million, I also examined if they turned a profit or were bought by insiders prior to the big moves. Here are the best 30 stocks of 2014:

Ticker            Name                                                                    Sector               YTD Gain (%)    Market cap (mil.)  Profit         Insider
IDIX 
PTX 
ICPT 
PLUG 
PEIX 
ITMN 
UBIC 
BLDP 
RNA 
GWPH 
SQBG
FURX 
EDN 
EMES 
TGTX 
SBGL 
ACHN 
VTL 
VIPS 
AZC 
PES 
GTAT 
AXDX 
MNKD 
HZNP 
BDSI 
KPTI 
PSXP 
PAH 
ALDR
Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Pernix Therapeutics
Intercept Pharmaceuticals
Plug Power Inc.
Pacific Ethanol, Inc.
InterMune Inc.
UBIC, Inc.
Ballard Power Systems Inc.
Prosensa Holding N.V.
GW Pharmaceuticals plc
Sequential Brands Group
Furiex Pharmaceuticals
Edenor SA
Emerge Energy Services LP
TG Therapeutics, Inc.
Sibanye Gold Limited
Achillion Pharmaceuticals
Vital Therapies, Inc.
Vipshop Holdings Limited
Augusta Resource Corp.
Pioneer Energy Services
GT Advanced Technologies
Accelerate Diagnostics
MannKind Corp.
Horizon Pharma, Inc.
BioDelivery Sciences
Karyopharm Therapeutics
Phillips 66 Partners LP
Platform Specialty Prod.
Alder Biopharmaceuticals
Healthcare
Healthcare
Healthcare
Technology
Materials
Healthcare
Technology
Industrial
Healthcare
Healthcare
Consumer 
Healthcare
Utilities
Materials
Healthcare
Materials
Healthcare
Healthcare
Services
Materials
Materials
Technology
Healthcare
Healthcare
Healthcare
Healthcare
Healthcare
Materials
Materials
Healthcare
303
256
247
202
200
200
175
171
170
158
156
153
149
148
141
137
128
127
124
122
119
113
113
111
108
105
103
101
100
100

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339.3
5004.7
782.1
307.9
4365.6
2487.9
533.2
453.1
2092.2
354.9
1148.9
342.3
2500.1
353.4
2438.7
732.8
593.6
10609.2
462.85
1100.64
2551.36
1159.08
4259.28
1166.41
584.79
1385.33
5589.17
3848.24
618.16
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As you can see, 24 out of 30 top stocks (80%) didn't make any profit last year and most of them don't pay any dividend. So much for P/E ratios and dividend valuation models. In addition, 17 stocks (56%) were bought by insiders before their advance began. The most dominant sector was healthcare (or biotechnology) with 16 stocks, followed by basic materials (7).

However, there is one thing that all best stocks had in common: they kept making 52-week highs over and over during their big moves (simple, isn't it?), and some had huge increases in sales which justified the skyrocketing prices.
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