Higher Oil Stocks for Christmas Party?

Most stocks are going up for this past week. Is this a holiday lift up especially for Christmas? Top stocks are oil & gas, materials, shipping, etc.

Best Weekly Stocks

This post will look into the top performing stocks, industry, and sector. The S&P 500 index has a weekly return of 3.44%. NASDAQ Composite has a weekly return of 2.40%. Dow Jones Industrials Average has a weekly return of 3.04%. The small cap (Russell 2000) has a return of 3.80%.

Best weekly performance of industry stocks of week 51, 2014 (December 15, 2014 – December 21, 2014) are:

1. Independent Oil & Gas 12.69%
2. Major Integrated Oil & Gas 9.17%
3. Oil & Gas Equipment & Services 9.07%
4. Drug Related Products 8.93%
5. Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration 8.13%
6. Application Software 7.86%
7. Aluminum 7.51%
8. Marketing Services 7.10%
9. Cement 7.06%
10. Industrial Metals & Minerals 6.78%
11. Specialty Chemicals 6.68%
12. Aerospace/Defense - Major Diversified 6.59%
13. Shipping 6.57%
14. Heavy Construction 6.17%
15. Auto Dealerships 6.17%
16. Oil & Gas Pipelines 6.12%
17. Industrial Equipment & Components 6.08%
18. Rubber & Plastics 6.07%
19. Long Distance Carriers 5.88%
20. Printed Circuit Boards 5.80%
21. Data Storage Devices 5.76%
22. Drug Delivery 5.73%
23. Railroads 5.62%
24. Electronics Stores 5.59%
25. Security & Protection Services 5.52%
26. Computers Wholesale 5.37%

Top Oil Stocks

Looking into best weekly stocks can provide an insight what stock market will bring for the next session. Retail or institutional investors may want to rotate to this sector to avoid bad returns. Can growth stocks finally make the comeback? Will value stocks continue to be the winner? Some great sectors in 2014 are major airlines, real estate (REIT), semiconductors, drug manufacturers, aluminum, etc.

Best independent oil & gas stocks of week 51, 2014 are:

1. Talisman Energy Inc. (TLM) 82.98%
2. Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. (MPO) 65.42%
3. Warren Resources Inc. (WRES) 62.88%
4. Saratoga Resources Inc. (SARA) 61.35%
5. Swift Energy Co. (SFY) 52.92%
6. Sanchez Energy Corporation (SN) 50.65%
7. Triangle Petroleum Corporation (TPLM) 42.36%
8. Oasis Petroleum Inc. (OAS) 39.17%
9. Parsley Energy, Inc. (PE) 38.31%
10. Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK) 37.45%
11. Goodrich Petroleum Corp. (GDP) 36.64%
12. EP Energy Corporation (EPE) 35.61%
13. Stone Energy Corp. (SGY) 34.53%
14. Baytex Energy Corp. (BTE) 33.93%
15. Penn Virginia Corporation (PVA) 33.68%
16. Emerald Oil, Inc. (EOX) 32.98%
17. PDC Energy, Inc. (PDCE) 31.54%
18. Viper Energy Partners LP (VNOM) 30.91%
19. Denbury Resources Inc. (DNR) 30.00%
20. Crescent Point Energy Corp. (CPG) 29.77%

Best major integrated oil & gas are:

1. Sasol Ltd. (SSL) 16.37%
2. Encana Corporation (ECA) 16.08%
3. Statoil ASA (STO) 13.06%
4. Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS-B) 10.57%
5. Ecopetrol SA (EC) 10.48%
6. Chevron Corporation (CVX) 10.30%
7. Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDS-A) 10.22%
8. PetroChina Co. Ltd. (PTR) 9.58%
9. BP p.l.c. (BP) 8.72%
10. Eni SpA (E) 8.45%
11. Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) 8.13%
12. Imperial Oil Ltd. (IMO) 7.85%
13. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP) 6.67%
14. TOTAL S.A. (TOT) 6.40%