Our Model Portfolio Performance Vs. The Indexes
Every month, we release our updated Model Portfolios – Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC, Safest Dividend Yields, Dividend Growth Stocks, and the Most Attractive and Most Dangerous stocks. These portfolios offer our clients multiple strategies to outperform in good and bad markets.
In 1Q21, we delivered stock picks that outperformed their benchmarks and major indexes and helped protect from blowups.
- Our large cap long/short strategy beat the Risk-Free Rate by 8% YTD.
- Our large cap long strategy beat the S&P 500 by 6%.
- Our large and small cap long strategy beat the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 by 4%.
- The Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 through 1Q21 (+10.6% vs. S&P +9.9%).
- The Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 on a price (+14.9% vs. S&P +7.3%) and total return (+16.0% vs. S&P +7.6%) basis through 1Q21.
- The Dividend Growth Stocks Model Portfolio underperformed the S&P 500 on a price (+10.1% vs. S&P +11.2%) and total return (+10.7% vs. S&P +11.6%) basis through 1Q21.[1]
These strategies (and others) have also beaten their benchmarks since the Most Attractive & Most Dangerous inception in January 2005. Since inception, our large and small cap long strategy has returned 10.3% annualized vs. just 8.2% for the S&P 500 and Russell 2000.
Click here to download a full breakdown of our Model Portfolios’ performance in 1Q21.
[1] S&P 500 performance varies for each portfolio due to different publish dates and measurement periods. See the individual portfolio sections below for more details.