The COVID-19 economy has been brutal for millions of people who have been directly affected, through illness and loss of family members and friends, but also though lost jobs, destroyed businesses and disrupted careers. The stock market has been a different story: Unprecedented stimulus efforts of the federal government and Federal Reserve have sent it soaring.
Some of the best-known stock-market winners of 2020 are companies with innovative technology and services that businesses and consumers have relied on for remote access. Yet many aren’t yet included in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.13%, the part of the market tracked by most of the money invested in low-cost index funds, including the SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY, +0.14%. Others, while part of the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.15%, aren’t yet included in the Nasdaq-100 Index NDX, +0.
Click here for more about Tesla and lists of the best-performing stocks of 2020 from among the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.24% and Nasdaq-100 Index NDX, +0.01%. Here are 15 stocks that have soared this year but aren’t included in the broad S&P indexes or the Nasdaq-100:You can click on the tickers for more about each company, including profiles, news coverage, price ratios and charts.Analysts have majority “buy” or equivalent ratings on 11 of these 15 stocks; however, most of the stock have gotten ahead of the consensus price targets.