50 Best Performing S&P 500 Stocks in 2018 (as of January 19)

In the following table, you can see 50 stocks that have the best performance in S&P 500 Index in 2018. With a return of 25.76%, STX stock has the highest return in 2018. It is followed by KSS stock and AMD stock with a returns of 24.54% and 22.47%, respectively.

Stock Company YtD Return
STX Seagate Technology PLC 25.76%
KSS Kohls Corp 24.54%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc 22.47%
ALGN Align Technology Inc 21.27%
TGT Target 19.69%
CMG Chipotle 18.97%
NVDA NVIDIA Corp 18.92%
ISRG  Intuitive Surgical 18.71%
AAP Advance Auto Parts Inc 17.38%
CAH Cardinal Health Inc 17.37%
FLR Fluor Corp 17%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories Inc 15.51%
DISC K Discovery Communications Inc 15.4%
BLK BlackRock 14.9%
DISC A Discovery Communications Inc 14.88%
NFLX Netflix 14.85%
BA Boeing 14.52%
NTAP NetApp Inc 14.05%
PYPL PayPal Holdings Inc 13.88%
LEN Lennar Corp 13.57%
ORLY O’Reilly Automotive Inc 13.5%
UAL United Continental Holdings 13.5%
SLB Schlumberger 13.4%
GILD Gilead Sciences 13.04%
LOW Lowe’s 12.92%
HPQ Hewlett-Packard 12.8%
LRCX Lam Research Corp 12.75%
HUM Humana Inc 12.59%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 12.44%
FLIR FLIR Systems Inc 12.4%
XLNX Xilinx Inc 12.3%
AMAT Applied Materials Inc 12.28%
BBY Best Buy Co Inc 12.25%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 11.98%
TXN Texas Instruments 11.86%
TROW T. Rowe Price Group Inc 11.84%
ADBE Adobe 11.69%
UPS UPS 11.69%
NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd 11.61%
AAL American Airlines 11.59%
AZO Autozone Inc 11.59%
BSX Boston Scientific Corp 11.54%
CFG Citizens Financial Group Inc 11.53%
IT Gartner Inc 11.53%
ILMN Illumina Inc 11.47%
ATVI Activision Blizzard Inc 11.45%
BWA BorgWarner Inc 11.45%
ANTM WellPoint 11.13%
HBI HanesBrands Inc 10.95%
ARNC Alcoa 10.9%