Averaging 34.3% per year since 1998 for a total return of 686.7% (including 99.6% from 2003 through 2004), the stock-picking strategy employed by this investment newsletter once again outperformed the S&P 500 in 2004. It has beaten the S&P 500 seven out of seven years. Additionally, a newly-developed system has returned 36.8% in five months.
(PRWEB) January 25, 2005 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter that guarantees to beat the stock market, released their returns for 2004. The newsletter once again outperformed the S&P 500 (a gain of 28.3% versus 5.4% for the S&P 500).
Since inception in 1998, the model portfolio has returned 34.3% per year (686.7% overall), has produced a gain each year, and has beaten the S&P 500 seven out of seven years. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 86.1% and portfolio turnover is low.
Even during the three-year bear market, their model portfolio produced gains each year. While the market lost (-39%) during the bear market, BeatTheStockMarket.com's model portfolio produced a gain (+21%).
The model stock portfolio has also easily outperformed Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock over the last seven years (686.7% versus Berkshire's 95.7%).
Following are a few of the stocks from the newsletters model portfolio and the stocks performance following the newsletter's buy signal:
- Marine Products Corp. +539.3%
- Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG) 391.2%
- Gen-Probe Inc. (GPRO) 285.0%
- Zimmer Holdings (ZMH) 157.1%
- Rockwell Collins Inc. (COL) 150.2%
- Cimarex Energy (XEC) 128.5%
- SCS Transportation Inc. (SCST) 122.6%
- Altria (MO) 120.6%
- Ambassadors Group (EPAX) 118.4%
- Cavco Industries (CVCO) 114.3%
- Imagistics International Inc. (IGI) 109.2%
While most of the newsletter's portfolios are designed for long-term investors, the newsletter has a Short-Term Portfolio in which individual stocks are held for only a few weeks. This new methodology, started in August, has provided subscribers with a return of 36.8% in five months, a period in which the S&P 500 rose only 6.3%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 186.8% per year.
BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first eighteen months of existence, the portfolio has returned 66.9% per option. Below are a few of the call options recommended by the newsletter and the options performance following the newsletter's buy signal:
-Zimmer Holdings +697.1% in only seven and a half months
-Cimarex Energy Co. +253.2% in only seven and a half months
-Rockwell Collins +240.8% in only five and a half months
In addition to individual stock recommendations, the company also has a model portfolio for mutual funds. The return of the portfolio (30.3% per year, 57.9% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500 (14.4% per year).
The newsletter offers a 21-day free trial that allows prospective subscribers to view all of the recommended portfolios. They also offer a guarantee that is unique in the industry: they will outperform the stock market, or the subscription will be free.
For additional information on the stock and mutual fund picking systems and the investment newsletter that employs them, visit www.BeatTheStockMarket.com.
Contact Information:
Nancy Wagner
Media Representative
425-415-6427
http://www.BeatTheStockMarket.com
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