Yesterday, Caterpillar announced much better financial results than were anticipated, and its stock price rose by nearly 8%.

I half-jokingly tweeted that a smart investor should look carefully at any company that BDSers want to boycott, because it might be a great investment.

So I decided to test my theory.

Here are all of the publicly traded companies that I could find on the BDSList.org website. I’ve also listed their stock prices from a year ago and today, with the percentage gained or lost. (Some companies are only listed on the Tel Aviv Exchange.)

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If you would have invested equal amounts in all of these companies a year ago, you would have made an astounding 50% profit. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 16% in that time period. The top funds rated by Kiplinger for the past year made about 30%.)