| S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10
(07 JAN -13 JAN) |
Ticker | Weekly Price Change (%) | Close Price 13Jan11 | Close Price 07Jan11 | Market Cap($Mil) |
| NVIDIA Corp | NVDA | 17.7 | 23.39 | 19.87 | 13589.6 |
| ITT Corp | ITT | 13.0 | 59.45 | 52.62 | 10915.0 |
| Apollo Group Inc | APOL | 11.6 | 42.39 | 37.98 | 6047.7 |
| Micron Technology Inc. | MU | 11.4 | 9.63 | 8.65 | 9593.8 |
| Marathon Oil Corp | MRO | 11.3 | 42.98 | 38.63 | 30512.0 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. | JEC | 7.7 | 48.75 | 45.27 | 6149.8 |
| Whole Foods Market Inc | WFMI | 7.6 | 52.31 | 48.60 | 9047.2 |
| JDS Uniphase Corp | JDSU | 7.5 | 17.46 | 16.24 | 3813.0 |
| Cliffs Natural Resources Inc | CLF | 7.5 | 87.40 | 81.33 | 11839.1 |
| Netflix Inc | NFLX | 6.8 | 191.49 | 179.30 | 10006.7 |
Source: Capital IQ
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) made the strongest move up of the week on the assumption that its small, inexpensive chips would power many of the new superphones including the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and a number of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered handsets–some of them made for 4G networks.
ITT (NYSE: ITT) rose as it announced that it would break itself into four pieces. Some consider this the beginning of the end of conglomerates. A better way to view it is that ITT should never existed in the first place.
Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) is one of the unloved paid education companies. It posted better-than-expected earnings. Any news is good news for Apollo.
And, finally, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) keeps rising no matter what the reason. Its competition, the Redbox chain owned by Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) had a bad quarter. So, Netflix probably had a good one.
Douglas A. McIntyre
