By Brian Nichols:If you're looking for a stock that could double over the next 12 months, your best bet is biotechnology. Using the Google (GOOG) screener, I found that 51 stocks with a market capitalization greater than $50 million had returned one-year gains of at least 100%. But what's even more interesting is that biotechnology stocks account for 18 or 35% of the 51 stocks trading with at least a 100% gain over the last year. The top 5 gainers in the market, over the last year, are biotech stocks, and 9 of the top 20 were biotech. Therefore, it's safe to say that if you're looking for a stock with quick upside potential, biotechnology should be the first place you look. However, it can be difficult to identify the stocks that have this level of upside potential, which is what this article will attempt to identify.
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