The Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES: ^DJI) have finished the first half of the year with solid performance, setting new all-time record highs on more than 20 occasions during the first six months of 2017, and posting an overall gain of almost 1,600 points, or about 8%. Yet the best-performing stocks in the Dow have seen total returns of 25% or more, and they have solid prospects that could carry them even higher in the remainder of the year and beyond.