The securities market has a quiet year in 2015. The celebrated S&P five hundred index is up a meager a pair of.3% since the New Year, and also the Dow Jones Industrials index has lost 0.4%.
But there are invariably exceptions to the rule. We asked a panel of Motley Fool contributors to outline the five biggest surprises they've seen in 2015, and this is what they came up with.
Here, you'll find a few long-running turnaround stories such as video-game designerElectronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and casino operator Isle of Capri Casinos (NASDAQ:ISLE). Digital amusementveteran Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), meanwhile, is going from strength to strength, and former bargain-bin shoe designer Skechers USA (NYSE:SKX) has become a powerhouse footwear brand in its own right. And what the heck is Natural Health Trends(NASDAQ:NHTC), alternative
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Specifically, sales inHong Kong accounted for 92% of the company's revenue within the recently reported half-moon, on the back of an eightieth year-over-year sales increase. Hong Kong is the company's entry into China -- a native shipping center for customers and selling partners in the Chinese ground.
With China enjoying such an important role in Natural Health Trends' business results via that Hong Kong link, the corporate itself is just about a proxy for that specific so much jap market. Overall, first-quarter sales increased 76%, and net profit quite doubled.
That being same, Natural Health Trends remains a micro-cap stock with a market cap of simply over $300 million. In spite of the huge gains within the stock's car mirror, the share worth has truly fallenconcerning forty fifth from its 52-week high, with 0.5 of that decline coming back in the past week and a 0.5.
The Chinese consumer market isn't looking terribly healthy at the instant, and in America, networks ofsupposed freelance contractors could shortly be reclassified as subject and