Amazon and Apple Stocks Outperform

Nothing is working in week 5, 2015. Only Amazon stock and Apple stocks are outperforming other sectors. Top performing industry stocks in week 5 of 2015 are basic materials wholesale, electronic equipment, residential construction, gold, etc.

This post will look into the top performing stocks, industry, and sector. The S&P 500 index has a weekly return of -2.75%. NASDAQ Composite has a weekly return of -2.58%. Dow Jones Industrials Average has a weekly return of -2.87%. The small cap (Russell 2000) has a return of -1.96%.

Best weekly performance of industry stocks of week 5, 2015 (January 26, 2015 – February 1, 2015) are:

1. Catalog & Mail Order Houses 9.54%
2. Basic Materials Wholesale 5.32%
3. Building Materials Wholesale 5.04%
4. Electronic Equipment 4.50%
5. Multimedia & Graphics Software 3.28%
6. Residential Construction 3.21%
7. Gold 2.68%
8. Computer Based Systems 2.63%
9. Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing 2.00%
10. Paper & Paper Products 1.74%
11. Synthetics 1.30%
12. General Building Materials 1.01%
13. Computer Peripherals 0.96%
14. Recreational Goods, Other 0.74%
15. Drug Delivery 0.70%
16. Publishing – Books 0.70%
17. Industrial Metals & Minerals 0.56%
18. Restaurants 0.49%
19. Aerospace/Defense - Major Diversified 0.34%
20. Silver 0.25%
21. Telecom Services – Foreign 0.22%
22. Beverages – Brewers 0.22%
23. Publishing – Newspapers 0.18%
24. Hospitals 0.14%
25. Diversified Electronics 0.12%
26. Auto Parts Wholesale 0.02%

Top Individual 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 performing Catalog & Mail Order Houses stocks are:

1. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) 13.49%
2. Gaiam Inc. (GAIA) 3.83%
3. Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT) 3.34%

Top basic materials wholesale stocks 2015 are:

1. Global Partners LP (GLP) 5.48%
2. Armco Metals Holdings, Inc (AMCO) 2.03%
3. Empire Resources Inc. (ERS) 1.39%

Top electronic equipment stocks are:

1. Harman International Industries, Incorporated (HAR) 27.64%
2. Apple Inc. (AAPL) 4.89%
3. Sony Corporation (SNE) 3.05%
4. Koss Corporation (KOSS) 2.54%
5. Eastman Kodak Co. (KODK) 0.11%