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The holiday season is coming, and so are the holidays gifts.
As always, the big winners are those with a large assortment of gift ideas and a wide selection of the big companies in the industry.
The following stocks are in our Christmas Stockings.
(Stock data from TheStreet.com.)
Christmas stockings: Starbucks stock: Up by a modest 0.2% over the last three months, but the stock has been on a steep climb for years, and its still climbing.
It has risen more than 25% in the past year alone.
American Airlines stock: Up by a hefty 2.2%, which is pretty remarkable, given the fact that American Airlines was a much bigger loser than it was before the stock crash.
General Electric stock: Not quite as great as the stock, but still up by 2.6%.
The Walt Disney Co stock: It’s a big company with big stock performance.
The Wall Street Journal’s Stock Picks blog: The Journal has a terrific selection of stocks for the holiday season.
(Stock data available from Bloomberg data, plus more on the stock markets from Bloomberg and Dow Jones.)
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Giant, Inc.: The $6.4 billion (US) tech company is still growing and is currently trading at a solid level.
Mozilla Firefox: Mojang is building an ambitious social media platform.
Netflix is selling a lot of streaming video, and it’s in the process of selling a large number of video-on-demand (VOD) services, including the movie The Fate of the Furious.
Amazon Prime Video: Prime Video, a streaming service for video that was launched in the US last year, is already in the $10 billion (HK$11.6 billion) range.
Microsoft is reportedly looking at making video games available in its store.
Walmart has a pretty strong Christmas shopping season.
Star Trek toys: ToysRUs, a toy retailer, is doing a great job of keeping its holiday season stock strong.
Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm are all showing strong holiday sales, as are a number of smaller companies.
Sci-fi and fantasy toys: Disney has a strong Christmas stock with more than $200 billion (AUD$219 billion) in sales this year, and Lego has a good showing as well.
Jaws: Saw a lot more bad news for Jaws this year.
Star Wars: With the release of The Force Awakens, Star Wars has seen its biggest fall in sales since it opened in 1977.
Starz, a cable network that started out as a competitor to HBO, has also suffered badly.
Viacom, the parent of MTV and Nickelodeon, also saw its sales plummet.
For a list of other holiday stock stocks and gift ideas, check out our Holiday Stockings for more information.
