The S&P/TSX Composite was one of the worst performing major indexes this year, dropping 10% but that doesn’t mean it was all doom and gloom.
Kinaxis, an Ottawa-based provider of cloud-based subscription software, was only added to the index in mid-December. The company itself is hardly new, but with a 157.8% return 2015 is the year it hit its stride. If not for its late addition to the index, Uni-Select—a distributor of automotive parts and paint products—would have been the runaway winner on the index with a 128.2% return; the company sold off the assets of its Uni-Select USA business to an affiliate of Icahn Enterprises L.P. for $340 million and put that money into several new acquisitions of its own.
Here’s a look at the rest of the best performers on the S&P/TSX in 2015 (as of December 30):
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