Apple
CEO: Tim Cook
Sept. 28, 2012: $667.11
June 29, 2011: $584.00
Change: 14.2%
Is it possible to have a "disappointing" 14 percent increase in your stock price in three months? Maybe. But, only if you're Apple, which has historically been higher on this list. Still, its third-quarter closing was better than its second-quarter performance, which was down 2.6 percent compared to the end of the first quarter. However, through the first nine months of 2012, Apple's stock is up 65 percent.
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