The inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump will take place later this week, and President Barack Obama is about to leave office after eight years in the White House. Those of different political persuasions will disagree about the reasons behind what’s happened since then, but the fact is that the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has climbed 167% over that time frame, and that doesn’t include the upward impact of dividends that stocks have paid since 2009.
As strong as the bull market has been, those returns pale in comparison to what the top-performing stocks have accomplished. Let’s look at the stocks currently in the S&P 500 and find the 10 top performers during the Obama administration.
