The Nasdaq 100’s top performers in 2024 indicate that the snowball for the winners might get yet bigger. These companies are capitalizing on trends like artificial intelligence and crypto, pulling in resources and attention to fuel growth.

Of the 503 stocks in the S&P 500 (some companies have two classes of stocks that are included) fewer than 30% of them, or 148 stocks, beat the index’s average return of 23.31% in 2024. 24/7 Wall St. : Although the S&P 500 has put together back-to-back years of better than 20% returns,

In fact, some 98 Standard & Poor's 500 stocks suffered double-digit declines in a year when the index was up more than 23% on top of a 24% gain in 2023. Here are the five worst S&

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