Performance Recap: US All-Time Highs from Nov/13/2009

Yesterday the NASDAQ finally broke out of its multi-month range, so it looks like the uptrend will continue. On that note, let's revisit the stocks that made new all-time high prices in the week of November 13th to see how they have performed (these are the US stocks over $10 that were originally highlighted on the blog in this list). Most of the 39 stocks showed gains, and only four declined more than 5%. Two of the three best performers were the same as last week (SMLC (Solera Holdings Inc), which gained 23%, and  MED (Medifast Inc), which gained 22%). The chart below shows how each stock performed, and how the indices (SPY, up 1.9%; and QQQQ, up 2.8%) and Gold (GLD down 3.3%) compared.

On average, the all-time highs returned a 3.8% gain, and half returned more than 3.6%; either way the all-time highs outperformed SPY and QQQQ. The worst performance was IAG at -17.6%, which is to be expected as gold experienced a strong sell-off. One company, LMDIA, was split into several divisions. For the sake of simplicity I decided to shown this as a zero percent change.