Continuing with UK stocks, I checked the best performing ones in 2014 with a minimum market cap of 100 million GBP. The FTSE 100 index is up only 1% this year, but there are still many great stocks out there:
Ticker Name Sector YTD Gain Market cap Profit Insider
| Leni Gas & Oil GW Pharmaceuticals Skyepharma Green Dragon Gas Ltd. OPG Power Ventures Mecom Group Staffline Group Petra Diamonds Ltd.(DI) Shire Plc Moss Bros Group Wolfson Microelectronics Trifast Velocys Pressure Technologies Cenkos Securities Songbird Estates Pinewood Shepperton Gemfields Hutchison China Med Kentz Corporation Ltd. Plus500 Ltd (DI) Centamin (DI) Hikma Pharmaceuticals Kazakhmys RM Provident Financial Quixant Jelf Group Go-Ahead Group Powerflute Oyj (DI) | Oil&Gas Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals Mining Utilities Media Support services Mining Pharmaceuticals Retail Technology Industrial Chemicals Industrial Financial services Real Estate Media Mining Pharmaceuticals Oil&Gas Financial services Mining Pharmaceuticals Mining Software Financial services Technology Financial services Travel Forestry | 494% 164% 141% 102% 81% 76% 63% 62% 58% 58% 58% 57% 56% 55% 53% 50% 50% 48% 47% 47% 45% 44% 44% 42% 41% 41% 38% 38% 36% 35% | £102.46 £1,229.17 £252.60 £789.86 £369.08 £185.89 £247.98 £980.69 £26,576.48 £115.67 £270.92 £142.67 £266.24 £107.02 £126.68 £1,836.13 £238.40 £264.57 £484.00 £1,090.99 £517.00 £739.65 £3,420.94 £1,384.03 £135.42 £3,202.29 £110.20 £100.99 £1,020.99 £110.10 | No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes | No No Yes No No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No Yes No No |
Best UK stocks look a bit different than their US counterparts. Only 7 companies didn't turn a profit and only 10 were bought by insiders prior to their advance. I have picked 2 stocks on this list, namely Hutchison China Med and Hikma Pharmaceuticals, which have done quite well.
But one thing holds true again: The best stocks are almost always small caps, that are growing fast or coming up with a new product/service. And of course, they all make new highs regularly. If you want to make money in the stock market, focus on uptrending small cap stocks, you can definitely catch some multibaggers there.
But one thing holds true again: The best stocks are almost always small caps, that are growing fast or coming up with a new product/service. And of course, they all make new highs regularly. If you want to make money in the stock market, focus on uptrending small cap stocks, you can definitely catch some multibaggers there.
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