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High Priced Oil Winners

Published: Wednesday, 12 Mar 2008 | 2:46 PM ET

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By: Giovanny Moreano
Quantitative Analyst

With Oil touching a new intraday record high price of $109.72 a barrel yesterday, which are the companies with the highest percentage gain year-to-date (YTD) in the S&P 500 Energy Sector?

Although the S&P 500 Energy Sector is down 5% YTD, the Oil & Gas Exploration and Production sub-sector has advanced 14% in the same period. The biggest winner in the Energy Sector and the S&P 500 Index has been EOG Resources [EOG Loading... () ]. Six of the seven leading companies for the S&P 500 Energy Sector with the highest percentage gains in 2008 are part of the Oil & Gas Exploration and Production classification, except for Nabors Industries [NBR Loading... () ], which is part of the Oil & Gas Drilling category.

The Fast Money traders suggest considering XTO Energy [XTO Loading... () ] and Chesapeake Energy [CHK Loading... () ] as two interesting plays for the bullish trend in crude oil.

Top S&P 500 Energy Performers

Symbol	Company Name	YTD % Change	6 Month % Change
EOG	EOG Resources Inc	36.58%	68.53%
RRC	Range Resources Corp	19.33%	50.74%
XTO	XTO Energy Inc	18.93%	23.46%
NBR	Nabors Industries Ltd	17.74%	4.81%
CHK	Chesapeake Energy Corp	17.30%	30.40%
DVN	Devon Energy Corp	16.81%	24.83%
APA	Apache Corp	10.54%	31.99%