10 Best-Performing S&P 500 Stocks of 2011

10 Best-Performing S&P 500 Stocks of 2011:

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Ten companies on the benchmark S&P 500 Index have gained as much as 61% this year as the third quarter played host to a tumultuous 2011 for the stock market.

Half of the companies are in the health-care industry, and two are in the aerospace and defense industry.











Companies in the S&P 500 have been battered and bruised because of the still-evolving sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the growing threat of a double-dip recession in the U.S. The dysfunction of the U.S. political system hasn't exactly helped.

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