E-commerce stocks gained last week, but could not keep pace with the healthy advance of the broader market.
A 0.94% increase for the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index lagged the 1.98% jump in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the 2.20% gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. For the year, however, the Online Retail Index is ahead 56.7%, while the Dow is up 8.3% and the S&P 500 13.6%.
Seventeen of the 25 stocks in the Online Retail Index advanced last week, led by online music and video retailer RealNetworks, whose shares gained 11.3%.
Here are the best-performing stocks last week in the Online Retail Index and the percentage price increase for each:
- RealNetworks, 11.3%
- Omniture, 6.2%
- NutriSystem, 6.0%%
- DemandTec, 5.0%
- American Greetings, 4.1%
Here are the Online Retail Index stocks that performed least well last week and the percentage decline in stock price for the week:
- Bidz.com, -12.1%
- CyberSource, -5.2%
- VistaPrint, -2.4%
- Keynote Systems, -1.5%
- Shutterfly, -1.2 %
The 25 companies in the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index are: 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., Akamai Technologies, Amazon.com Inc., American Greetings Corp., Art Technology Group Inc., Bidz.com Inc., Blue Nile Inc., CyberSource Corp., DemandTec Inc., Digital River Inc., Drugstore.com Inc., eBay Inc., GSI Commerce Inc., Keynote Systems Inc., LivePerson Inc., Netflix Inc., NutriSystem Inc., Omniture Inc., Overstock.com Inc., PetMed Express Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Shutterfly Inc., Systemax Inc., United Online Inc. (owner of FTD.com) and VistaPrint Ltd.
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