Big Earnings for Technology Stocks: Amazon & Microsoft

Find why technology stocks are rising? Is it because of big earning or rotation to non-oil stocks? Top performing industries in week 17, 2015 are catalog & mail order houses, business software & services, etc.

Top Tech Stocks

This post will look into the top performing stocks, industry, and sector. The S&P 500 index has a weekly return of 1.77%. NASDAQ Composite has a weekly return of 3.25%. Dow Jones Industrials Average has a weekly return of 1.45%. The small cap (Russell 2000) has a return of 1.26%.

Top performing stock industries in week 17, 2015 (April 20, 2015 to April 26, 2015) are:

1. Catalog & Mail Order Houses 14.91%
2. Toys & Games 10.71%
3. Industrial Metals & Minerals 10.34%
4. Business Software & Services 10.17%
5. Basic Materials Wholesale 8.35%
6. Specialty Eateries 7.97%
7. Wireless Communications 7.12%
8. Foreign Utilities 6.64%
9. Major Airlines 6.63%
10. Diagnostic Substances 6.09%
11. Steel & Iron 5.88%
12. Semiconductor Equipment & Materials 5.53%
13. Internet Information Providers 5.34%
14. Foreign Regional Banks 5.15%
15. Home Health Care 5.11%
16. Multimedia & Graphics Software 5.03%
17. Processing Systems & Products 5.00%
18. Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing 4.96%
19. Regional Airlines 4.55%
20. Electronic Equipment 4.41%
21. Telecom Services – Foreign 4.19%
22. Semiconductor- Memory Chips 4.17%
23. Restaurants 4.16%
24. Trucks & Other Vehicles 4.06%
25. Cement 4.05%
26. Air Services, Other 3.91%

Best Stocks Return

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 2015 are drug, health care, grocery, consumer, etc.

Best performing catalog & mail order houses stocks 2015 are:

1. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) 18.52%
2. Gaiam Inc. (GAIA) 9.56%
3. Overstock.com Inc. (OSTK) 6.79%
4. Mercadolibre, Inc. (MELI) 5.75%
5. Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT) 2.61%
6. Liberty Interactive Corporation (QVCA) 2.19%
7. Wayfair Inc. (W) 2.09%
8. E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (DANG) 1.33%
9. LightInTheBox Holding Co., Ltd. (LITB) 0.40%
10. Vipshop Holdings Limited (VIPS) 0.17%

Top performing business software & services 2015 are:

1. Procera Networks, Inc. (PKT) 20.82%
2. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 15.02%
3. ServiceSource International, Inc. (SREV) 13.07%
4. CyberArk Software, Ltd. (CYBR) 10.02%
5. Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (ININ) 7.36%
6. Qlik Technologies, Inc. (QLIK) 7.23%
7. Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) 6.73%
8. F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) 5.99%
9. Citrix Systems, Inc. (CTXS) 4.64%
10. Ebix Inc. (EBIX) 4.02%
11. Datawatch Corporation (DWCH) 3.74%
12. CA, Inc. (CA) 3.32%
13. Cover-All Technologies Inc. (COVR) 2.94%
14. Blackbaud Inc. (BLKB) 2.86%
15. DST Systems Inc. (DST) 2.40%
16. SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC) 2.28%
17. Amdocs Limited (DOX) 2.12%
18. Callidus Software Inc. (CALD) 2.06%
19. GSE Systems Inc. (GVP) 2.03%
20. Guidewire Software, Inc. (GWRE) 1.98%