The First Half's Big Winners

With the first half of 2014 in the books, here are the stocks in the S&P 500 that returned the most over the past six months:

1. Newfield Exploration, an oil & gas company, up 79.46 percent    
2. Nabors Industries, an oil & gas company, up 72.87 percent    
3. Keurig Green Mountain, a coffee company, up 64.96 percent    
4. Forest Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, up 64.92 percent    
5. Electronic Arts, a video game manufacturer, up 56.36 percent    
6. Allergan, a pharmaceutical company, up 52.34 percent    
7. Micron Technology, a chipmaker, up 51.49 percent    
8. Williams Companies, an oil & gas company, up 50.92 percent    
9. Sandisk, a flash memory manufacturer,  up 48.04 percent    
10. Potomac Electric Power Company, a Washington, D.C.-based utility, up 43.65 percent