So far this year, the S&P 500 is up nearly 9 percent, with only about half (249) of the index components outperforming the overall market. Stocks with positive performance this year, CNBC’s Analytics team looked at the ones that have average consensus estimates farthest above their current stock prices. All values including analysts’ estimates are as of the market close on March 8, 2012. CNBC's Analytics team suggests 20 stocks with the potential to pop, whose average consensus earnings estimates are farthest above their current stock prices:
CI, LNC, GILD, OI, MS, MET, DVN, JCI, HES, NBL, HIG, F, JOY, JDSU, DNR, QEP, NBR, FCX, HAL, S
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