Averaging 33.6% per year since 1998 for a total return of 914.8% (including 99.6% from 2003 through 2004), the stock-picking strategy employed by this investment newsletter has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Additionally, a newly-developed stock-selection methodology has returned 94.4% since 9/14/2004, including the cost of commissions. For 2005, this particular strategy resulted in a gain of 55.1%.
(PRWEB) January 10, 2006 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter that guarantees to beat the stock market, released their returns for 2005. Since inception in 1998, the website's model portfolio has returned 33.6% per year (914.8% overall), has produced a gain each year, and has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 84.1% and portfolio turnover is low.
Even during the three-year bear market, their model stock 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 out-performed Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock over the last eight years (914.8% versus Berkshire's 92.7%).
Following are a few of the companies from the newsletter’s model portfolios and each stock’s performance:
- Marine Products Corp. +539.3%
- Fording Canadian Coal Trust +539.2%
- Gen-Probe Inc. +305.8%
- LifePoint Hospitals +290.3%
- Cavco Industries +255.8%
- Altria +174.7%
- Zimmer Holding +157.1%
- Florida Rock Industries (FRK) +154.4%
- Rockwell Collins +150.2%
- SCS Transportation Inc. (SCST) +142.7%
- Cimarex Energy +139.1%
- Ambassadors Group +138.7%
- Imagistics International Inc. +129.4%
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 on average. This methodology has provided subscribers with a return of 64.9% while the S&P 500 rose only 10.6%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 46.5% per year after factoring in the cost of commissions. In 2005, these stock recommendations gained 34.8% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a loss (-0.6%).
For investors who don't have the funds to invest in all of the stocks of the Short-Term Portfolio, the editors of the website select a handful of stocks from the Short-Term Portfolio that they believe have the most potential for explosive growth. These stocks are labeled "Double Allocation" stocks, and their return is 94.4% in a little more than 15 months. That's the annualized equivalent of 66.1% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 128.5% in a little more than 15 months.
BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first two years of existence, the portfolio has returned 37.3% per option with an average holding period of 6.7 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 75.8% per year. Below are a few of the call options recommended by the newsletter and the option’s 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 (+25.3% per year, +82.2% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500.
The newsletter offers a 21-day free trial that allows prospective subscribers to view all recommended portfolios. They also offer a guarantee that is unique in the industry: they will out-perform the S&P 500, 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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