The First Half's Big Winners

We'll wrap up our look back at the first half of 2016 with the top ten gainers in the S&P 500 over the past six months. As with the sector analysis, energy bounced back big here too:

1. Newmont Mining Corp.        (Precious Metals)   up  118%
2. Oneok Inc.        (Oil and Gas Pipelines)    101%
3. Southwestern Energy Co.        (Oil and Gas Production)    77%
4. Range Resources Corp.        (Oil and Gas Production)    75%
5. Freeport-McMo-Ran Inc.        (Precious Metals)    65%    
6. Spectra Energy Corp.        (Oil and Gas Pipelines)    57%
7. Iron Mountain Inc.        (Real Estate Investment Trusts)    52%
8. EQT Corp.        (Oil and Gas Production)    49%
9. Digital Realty Trust Inc.    (Real Estate Investment Trusts)    47%
10. Murphy Oil Corp.    (Oil and Gas Production)    46%