This year, we wrote our second annual “5 Stocks on Santa’s Shit List”. As we took a moment to review last year’s 
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(Note 2: The YTD numbers are based on when the article was written on Dec. 10, 2015.)

Amazon

Why it made the list: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was struggling last year, getting 4.5 out of 5 lumps of coal for a -23.31% slide. We complained about the company’s lack of interest in turning a quarterly profit and its at-cost strategy for selling its flagship devices. And let’s just not talk about the Fire phone.

But here’s the dealio: Jeff Bezos still doesn’t care what Wall Street thinks. And it seems that Wall Street has not only come to accept that, but they’ve also accepted that it’s OK to have a 20-year-old company still in growth mode, as long as the revenue numbers justify it (and they do). Revenue growth was as follows:

2015 is also the year of AWS (Amazon Web Services). The company broke out its AWS performance in its Q1 report, showing revenue of $1.57 billion and an operating profit of $265 million. Since then, AWS has continued to grow at a breakneck pace, giving investors every reason to believe that Amazon will be a major player in the cloud computing industry for years to come.

Amazon has also shown shareholders that it really can turn on the earnings spigot whenever it wants, turning a profit gain in both Q2 and Q3. With more and more products and services being shipped consistently, there’s no reason to think Amazon won’t be on Santa’s nice list again next year. Then again, Wall Street is a fickle mistress, so who knows for sure.

Netflix (NFLX)

Why it made the list: Everyone’s favorite streaming service has been on an amazing streak in 2015, which is impressive considering its lackluster 2014, where it saw a 5% loss. The biggest reason for the impressive turnaround is its subscriber growth — something investors take seriously in this industry. For example, the company’s 69 million subscribers in Q3 2015 was a full-year 20.2% increase from the total number (57.4 million) in Q3 2014.