50 Best Performing S&P 500 Stocks in 2017 (as of August 25, 2017)

S&P 500 Index showed a year-to-date performance of  9.12% as of August 25, 2017.  248 stocks in S&P 500 Index have better performances than whole index based on year-to-date return.

In the following table, you can see  to 50 stocks that have the best performance in S&P 500 Index in 2017. With a return of 108.05%, VRTX stock has the highest return in 2017. It is followed by NRG stock and ALGN stock with a returns of 100.49 and 79.5%, respectively.

 

Stock Company YTD
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 108.05%
NRG NRG Energy Inc 100.49%
ALGN Align Technology Inc 79.5%
ATVI Activision Blizzard Inc 73.3%
WYNN Wynn Resorts 55.65%
ADSK Autodesk Inc 55.34%
ISRG Intuitive Surgical 54.32%
NVDA NVIDIA Corp 53.47%
CNC Centene Corp 52.01%
PYPL PayPal Holdings Inc 51.94%
BA Boeing 51.52%
RHT Red Hat Inc 51.12%
ILMN Illumina Inc 50.1%
LRCX Lam Research Corp 49.3%
FMC FMC Corp 49.05%
EA Electronic Arts Inc 48.46%
ADBE Adobe 47.11%
RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 46.81%
BBY Best Buy Co Inc 45.00%
FB Facebook 44.56%
DXC DXC Technology Co 42.85%
BCR C R Bard Inc 41.89%
MTD Mettler-Toledo International Inc 41.05%
COO Cooper Companies Inc 40.82%
SPGI S&P Global Inc 40.66%
MCO Moody’s Corp 40.44%
XRX Xerox 40.26%
DLPH Delphi Automotive PLC 39.96%
PVH PVH Corp 39.52%
EL Estee Lauder 39.23%
COL Rockwell Collins Inc 39.17%
AVGO Broadcom Ltd 38.93%
BAX Baxter International Inc 38.72%
MU Micron Technology Inc 38.18%
ANSS ANSYS Inc 38.14%
A Agilent Technologies Inc 38.06%
AAPL Apple 38.02%
CERN Cerner Corp 37.75%
PHM PulteGroup Inc 37.7%
CRM Salesforce.com 37.45%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc 36.59%
WFM Whole Foods Market Inc 36.51%
AMT American Tower 36.49%
PGR Progressive Corp 36.34%
ARNC Alcoa 36.19%
CSX CSX Corp 35.96%
TSS Total System Services Inc 35.43%
CBOE CBOE Holdings Inc 35.03%
CHTR Charter Communications Inc 35.03%
QRVO Qorvo Inc 34.52%