Beyond a lonely 10, all stocks are down

If you look at some of these New York Times interactive charts that show relative performance of stocks within a sector, you'll notice something remarkable: all the dots on the chart for most sectors are below 0% gain for the year. In fact, in some sectors it is so bad that +% and even 0% doesn't even show up on the axis!

This made me want to run a simple screen for YTD price gain > 0. I was fully expecting to get *nothing* back! Well, it's close. There was only one company > 30B market cap whose stock made money in the past year (WalMart). For market cap > 5 billion, only 10 companies out of all the stocks in the world made positive gains. Here is the "Lonely 10" screen. What other year does only 10 stocks make money? If you try and run similar screens, be sure to filter out bond funds and UltraShort funds. Basically long equity investors got slaughtered, and most of the downward spiral occurred in the past 2 months.

Company Name	Symbol	52w Price Change (%)	Institutional Percent Held	Market Cap
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	WMT	11.66	38.90	214.72B
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	3.87	77.14	20.55B
Rohm and Haas Company	ROH	32.33	80.17	13.86B
UST Inc.	UST	19.53	75.31	10.22B
Southwestern Energy Company	SWN	19.79	88.90	8.34B
Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.	NFS	14.43	21.78	7.04B
Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	BRL	18.06	77.49	6.96B
AutoZone, Inc.	AZO	0.45	95.00	6.64B
People's United Financial, Inc.	PBCT	7.40	69.47	5.93B
Sociedad Quimica y Minera (ADR)	SQM	17.99	12.06	5.25B