Consider a sampling of measures from three of its top stocks as of Oct. 16.

Travelers, in fact, is the top stock in the portfolio, at 1.5 percent of its holdings.

These days, top stocks are far more volatile.

The second-most-active issue was Microsoft, the top stock in total value, which slumped 2 7/16, to 92 5/8, on 24.2 million shares.

Between that and the insurance money, we had enough for some top stock and all the rest of this.

Barron's released the research results conducted by Zacks Investment Research for top stock picking firms.

Today, price-earnings ratios for all the top stock indexes are well above the historical average.

They were asked to name their top stock for the medium to long term, the only restriction being that the choice must be listed on an American market for easy trading.

After going public in 1992, First USA became the top performing stock on the New York Stock Exchange in 1993.

The fact that the top performing stocks have recently started to lag is not viewed as a sign of stock market danger overall.