Too Bad Jim Cramer didn't really commit professional suicide + MORE

It has been an interesting ride for the stock market in 2013, with the S&P 500 up about 16% year-to-date.
So how are the stock pickers faring in our Best Stocks for 2013 feature, which was meant to provide 10 buy-and-hold picks that deliver big gains from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31?
As a whole, not bad. Here’s the rundown as of the closing bell Thursday, May 23:

Sherwin-Williams (SHW): +21%
Intel (INTC): +19%
Mylan (MYL): +16%
Two Harbors (TWO): +15%
Daimler (DDAIF): +11%
Fomento Economico Mexico (KOF): +10%
Global X Funds Greece ETF (GREK): +8%
Qualcomm (QCOM): +4%
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD): -7%
Vale (VALE): -24%

Charles Sizemore, the brains behind automaker Daimler, talks with me his pick — and mine, semiconductor stock Intel…

There’s no quibbling with price on these stocks — they deserve their premium.    

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Some fast-growing companies trade at valuations that just don’t make sense. Though many of these stocks probably present worse probabilities of success than a casino, a rare few are well deserving of their unthinkable premiums. What separates them from the rest? Two things: excellent economics and massive market opportunity…

Sears Holdings delivered another brutal quarter May 23. CEO and majority owner Edward Lampert has his hands full trying to revive a truly broken department store. Rumor has Neiman Marcus and Saks looking at merging, which got me to thinking about Sears and JCPenney doing the same thing.    

Why wasn’t Cramer investigated for his ‘treatise on manipulating stock prices’ (see link below)?http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/ … -the-line/"In a long examination of the clip, Mr. Blodget — who has been barred from the securities industry for life as part of a settlement over his stock research — predicts that Mr…