25 Stocks That Are Crushing the Market in 2019

Despite all of the trepidation, Wall Street is having a very good year. Through the first 10 months of 2019, the S&P 500 Index, one of the better proxies for the broader market, is up around 21%. That's a sizable gain on an absolute basis and compared to history, though it isn't exactly out of the ordinary for the market to make big swings higher or lower. The thing is, the "market" isn't one stock, it's thousands of stocks.

So within the big gain in the S&P 500 are, roughly, 500 companies that have seen big gains and big losses... and a lot in between. The market cap weighted average of all those stock price movements is around 21%. And if you dig into the list of companies that Standard & Poors has selected to be included in the S&P 500 Index (because they provide a broad representation of the economy), there are some stocks that have done much, much better than the index.

In fact, there are some that have simply crushed the about 21% gain of the S&P 500 Index through the end of October. And this isn't making mountains out of mole hills, either. Some of the best performing names in the S&P 500 Index have provided investors with more than three times the gain of the broader market. Here's a list of 25 stocks that are crushing the S&P 500's gain so far in 2019.