AOL Stock Rallies as Armstrong Plots Portal Comeback

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

AOL Inc., still struggling to resurrect its brand in the eyes of Internet users, is having no trouble appealing to investors.

After adding more than 4 percent last week, AOL’s shares have almost tripled in the past 12 months, eclipsing the performance of Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The stock hasn’t seen that kind of gain since the dot-com boom in 1998, three years before AOL merged with Time Warner Inc.