My hand isn’t up, and I’ll bet most who follow the industry closely didn’t tap it as their top pick this year, either. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that few expected that the five best-performing large-cap energy stocks would be ONEOK, Continental Resources ONEOK’s success in 2016 was partially due to its poor performance in 2015, when the stock got cut in half over concerns about its direct exposure to commodity prices, which were in a tailspin.