360 Stocks in the S&P 500 Underperformed the Benchmark's 2024 Gain of 24%. Here's 2 High-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks to Buy in 2025, According to Wall Street.

It's been an interesting year for the stock market. The broader benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC -1.11%) blazed roughly 24.5% higher (as of Dec. 27), thanks largely to eight high-flying tech stocks with market caps exceeding $1 trillion. Market breadth has not been good this year. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF is only up about 12%.Roughly 360 stocks in the S&P 500 have posted returns below the broader market's average. Of those, 168 stocks are trading in the red this year. This means the market is fairly lop ...