Global Payments
Ticker: GPN
Market cap: $23.4 billion
Year-to-date return: +43.5%
Description: Financial-payments technology services
FleetCor Technologies
Ticker: FLT
Market cap: $23.3 billion
Year-to-date return: +44.4%
Description: Provides fuel cards and workforce-payment products and services
Dentsply
Ticker: XRAY
Market cap: $12.8 billion
Year-to-date return: +45.7%
Description: Dental-equipment maker and dental-consumables producer
AMD
Ticker: AMD
Market cap: $29.2 billion
Year-to-date return: +46.4%
Description: Semiconductor company and microchip manufacturer
Celgene
Ticker: CELG
Market cap: $67 billion
Year-to-date return: +48%
Description: Biotechnology company
Synchrony
Ticker: SYF
Market cap: $24.2 billion
Year-to-date return: +48.9%
Description: Consumer financial-services company
MSCI
Ticker: MSCI
Market cap: $18.9 billion
Year-to-date return: +50.9%
Description: Provider of market indexes and multi-asset portfolio-analysis tools
Align Technology
Ticker: ALGN
Market cap: $25.8 billion
Year-to-date return: +51.6%
Description: Orthodontics company, maker of invisalign teeth aligners
Cadence Design Systems
Ticker: CDNS
Market cap: $18.4 billion
Year-to-date return: +53.4%
Description: Electronic design-automation software and engineering services
Tyson Foods
Ticker: TSN
Market cap: $24.3 billion
Year-to-date return: +54.9%
Description: World's second-largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork
Xerox
Ticker: XRX
Market cap: $7.2 billion
Year-to-date return: +62.0%
Description: Sells print- and digital-document and services
Hess Corporation
Ticker: HES
Market cap: $19.8 billion
Year-to-date return: +62.1%
Description: Energy exploration and production
Anadarko Petroleum
Ticker: APC
Market cap: $36.5 billion
Year-to-date return: +65.7%
Description: Hydrocarbon exploration
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Ticker: CMG
Market cap: $20.1 billion
Year-to-date return: +67.5%
Description: Fast-casual burrito chain