A Foolish Take: The Best-Performing S&P 500 Stock This Year
It has been a good year so far for stocks, with the S&P 500 up 15% since the beginning of 2017. But that's just an average of the 500 stocks on the large-cap index; some have done even better.
At the top is Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX). It is the best-performing stock on the S&P 500 this year, boasting gains of 110%.
Data source: YCharts.com. Chart by author.
Source: Fool.com
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. Stock
€448.50
0.990%
The stock is one of the favorites of our community with 58 Buy predictions and 2 Sell predictions.
With a current price of 448.5 € Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is right around the predicted target price of 450 €.
