Although most stocks made forward progress in January, a few of them bucked the bigger trend for understandable reasons.

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of Palantir Technologies topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 24.7%. Year to date, Palantir Technologies ...

In early trading on Thursday, shares of AstraZeneca topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 4.4%. Year to date, AstraZeneca registers a 13.0% gain.

In early trading on Wednesday, shares of CDW topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 5.7%. Year to date, CDW registers a 21.0% gain. And the ...

In early trading on Monday, shares of Idexx Laboratories, topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 10.3%. Year to date, Idexx Laboratories ...

In early trading on Friday, shares of Atlassian topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 18.0%. Year to date, Atlassian registers a 29.4% gain.

In early trading on Thursday, shares of Roper Technologies topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 6.0%. Year to date, Roper Technologies ...

In early trading on Wednesday, shares of T-Mobile topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 6.8%. Year to date, T-Mobile registers a 6.9% gain.

In early trading on Monday, shares of Kraft Heinz topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 4.3%. Year to date, Kraft Heinz has lost about 0.5% of ...

In early trading on Tuesday, shares of MicroStrategy topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 6.0%. Year to date, MicroStrategy registers a 20.1% ...

While the Nasdaq-100 index advanced 2.2% in January ... every other stock on this list at least has a shot at dishing out longer-term upside from their present prices. Just bear in mind that ...