Sept 12 - Energy companies including Paramount Resources and NuVista dominated the list of 30 best performing Canadian stocks over the past three years, an annual ranking by the Toronto Stock Exchange showed on Tuesday.
Of those, 20 were energy firms with Paramount Resources and NuVista Energy topping the list with their 1,913% and 1,279% surge. The energy sector has the second biggest influence on the Toronto Stock Exchange's $2.37 trillion S&P/TSX composite index , which houses 226 companies and has climbed 24.4% in the past three years.
In comparison, the much larger $37.49 trillion Wall Street benchmark S&P 500 , which is largely skewed towards technology companies, has climbed 34.2% in the same period.
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