Best Stocks Of The Week (NVDA, ITT, AAPL, GOOG, APOL, NFLX, CSTR)

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Published: January 15, 2011 8:37 am

Last Updated: January 18, 2011 5:37 am

S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (07 JAN -13 JAN)	Ticker	Weekly Price Change (%)	Close Price 13Jan11	Close Price 07Jan11	Market Cap($Mil)
NVIDIA Corp	NVDA	17.7	23.39	19.87	13589.6
ITT Corp	ITT	13.0	59.45	52.62	10915.0
Apollo Group Inc	APOL	11.6	42.39	37.98	6047.7
Micron Technology Inc.	MU	11.4	9.63	8.65	9593.8
Marathon Oil Corp	MRO	11.3	42.98	38.63	30512.0
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.	JEC	7.7	48.75	45.27	6149.8
Whole Foods Market Inc	WFMI	7.6	52.31	48.60	9047.2
JDS Uniphase Corp	JDSU	7.5	17.46	16.24	3813.0
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc	CLF	7.5	87.40	81.33	11839.1
Netflix Inc	NFLX	6.8	191.49	179.30	10006.7

Source: Capital IQ

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) made the strongest move up of the week on the assumption that its small, inexpensive chips would power many of the new superphones including the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and a number of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered handsets–some of them made for 4G networks.

ITT (NYSE: ITT) rose as it announced that it would break itself into four pieces. Some consider this the beginning of the end of conglomerates. A better way to view it is that ITT should never existed in the first place.

Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) is one of the unloved paid education companies. It posted better-than-expected earnings. Any news is good news for Apollo.

And, finally, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) keeps rising no matter what the reason. Its competition, the Redbox chain owned by Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) had a bad quarter. So, Netflix probably had a good one.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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