NAS100 TOP 12
52W Performance
2026-05-26

What a ride.

I recall Micron (MU) from way back in the early Motley Fool days. As I recall, it went in and out and in and out of some of those early MI screens. Guess we should have just held on to it.

Although ... it went from $83 in 2000 to $2 by 2008.
So I guess not. Buying the top N momentum stocks and selling them when they drop out of the top would appear to be a good way.

MU and INTC and GOOG are the only ones from that era that stick to my mind.

I checked finance.yahoo this morning to see what the market was doing -- which turned out to be "Meh, not much". Except for the news item "Micron up 20% today." Daaaang!

Those stocks you listed that have gained 200%+ (tripled or more) in 52 weeks will likely stay in the top 12 for a long time. Not that you can't lose big money on them, though. SNDK could lose 75% and it would *still* be in the top 12.



I have gotten a bit nervous about the preponderance of such similar tech stocks in the top N of the Nasdaq 100 so I have created a similar screen from a different universe of stocks.
Here is that list:

1    BE     1452.36%
2    MU      859.49%
3    VICR    699.02%
4    CIEN    650.92%
5    TTMI    588.88%
6    DOCN    474.21%
7    TER     405.51%
8    POWL    401.38%
9    COHR    386.04%
10   AMD     356.79%
11   FORM    349.39%
12   NESR    342.56%

Yeah, they are still mostly technology. But not in the Nasdaq 100.