Top 10 Stocks Since 9/11

As someone who used to work at the World Trade Center, the coming 10-year
anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks hits me especially hard. I
lost friends on that fateful September morning, as did so many of my fellow
Americans. More importantly, America lost her collective sense of sanctuary from
the very real enemies committed to her destruction. Yet try as they may,
America's foes failed to break our spirit. The dastardly acts also failed to
wreak the kind of havoc on our financial markets our enemies intended. Perhaps
the best way to illustrate just how much resolve our equity markets possess is
by looking at the powerful gains in the best-performing stocks since the 9/11
attacks. To find out just how powerful these gains have been, I ran a Bloomberg
search for the top performing stocks (currently over $500 million in market cap)
of the past 10 years. There were a lot of familiar names on the list, including
such market stars as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ), which soared 4,186%, Jos. A. Bank
Clothiers (NASDAQ: JOSB ), which climbed 2,995%, and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ),
which saw a 2,553% gain since 9/11. Yet as great as those gains are, these three
stellar stocks didn't even make the top 10. The table below shows the 10
best-performing stocks since 9/11.