In a previous Value Walk post (“A Security Selection Method That Beats The Market”), I mentioned that, since June 8th, I’ve been posting Portfolio Armor‘s top ten names each week. These names are ranked based on my site’s estimate of their potential returns over the next 6 months, net of hedging costs (each of these top names is hedgeable against declines as small as 9%). As of Thursday, we now have 6-month performance data for 18 weekly top names cohorts since then, with the October 5th cohort (pictured above), ending on April 5th.
The table below shows the performance of each of those 18 weekly cohorts . Clicking on a starting date will take you to an interactive chart for that cohort.
Starting Date | Portfolio Armor 6-Month Performance | SPY 6-Month Performance |
---|---|---|
June 8, 2017 | 14.49% | 9.99% |
June 15, 2017 | 19.85% | 10.97% |
June 22, 2017 | 24.45% | 11.27% |
June 29, 2017 | 18.24% | 11.68% |
July 6, 2017 | 21.03% | 14.81% |
July 13, 2017 | 28.25% | 14.85% |
July 20, 2017 | 25.04% | 14.62% |
July 27, 2017 | 33.52% | 17.10% |
August 3, 2017 | 20.72% | 12.66% |
August 10, 2017 | 13.05% | 8.36% |
August 17, 2017 | 10.71% | 13.48% |
August 24, 2017 | 15.23% | 13.72% |
August 31, 2017 | 8.42% | 10.87% |
September 7, 2017 | 12.75% | 11.61% |
September 14, 2017 | 29.05% | 11.19% |
September 21, 2017 | 22.56% | 9.42% |
September 28, 2017 | 14.30% | 4.73% |
October 5, 2017 | 11.53% | 5.26% |
Average | 19.07% | 11.48% |
So Portfolio Armor’s top ten names averaged 19.07% over the average of these 18 6-month periods, versus SPY’s average of 11.48%, an average outperformance of 7.59% over 6 months. The table above is updated here every Thursday night: http://portfolioarmor.com/performance-top-names
For a few months, in addition to posting those top names in my Seeking Alpha Marketplace service, I also time-stamped them on Twitter. If you click on the tweet shown below, and scroll down, it will take you to a thread showing those time-stamped posts as well as charts of their subsequent performance.
A quick thread on security selection & returns. May be of interest to @AndySwan @aaronklein @jposhaughnessy @MebFaber @StockCats @JacobWolinsky @SonOfUhGunn @Greenbackd @EmanuelDerman @albertwenger
— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) March 25, 2018
Here’s an advance look at how our October 12th top ten cohort has performed as of Friday’s close:
You can see an interactive version of that chart here.
I mentioned above that these names are all hedgeable against declines of as little as 9%, but it’s more cost effective to hedge them against larger declines.
ValueWalk readers can check it out here