2013's Biggest Winners and Losers

In a very good year for stocks, some stocks of course benefited more than others. According to the Wall Street Journal, these were the five top-returning large-cap stocks of 2013, through last Friday's close:

• Tesla, up 346 percent
• Netflix, up 296 percent
• Best Buy, up 239 percent
• Twitter, up 145 percent
• Herbalife, up 138 percent

But in any year, there have to be stocks that are down sharply as well. These are the Journal's top five losers of the year:

• Peabody, down 28 percent
• Abercrombie & Fitch, down 30 percent
• BlackBerry, down 39 percent
• Newmont Mining, down 50 percent
• JC Penney, down 54 percent