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. We also publish the Focus List Stocks: Long and Short. These portfolios offer our clients multiple strategies to outperform in good and bad markets.
In 1Q22, we delivered stock picks that outperformed their benchmarks and major indexes and helped protect from blowups.
- Our small cap short strategy beat the short Russell 2000 by 10% YTD.
- Our large and small cap short strategy beat the short S&P 500 and Russell 2000 by 5%.
- The Focus List Stocks: Long outperformed the S&P 500 YTD (-2.4% vs. S&P -4.0%).
- The Focus List Stocks: Short outperformed as a short vs. the S&P 500 YTD (-18.5% vs. S&P -4.4%) and since inception.
- As a long/short portfolio, our Focus Lists outperformed the S&P 500 by 15.7% YTD.
- The Dividend Growth Stocks Model Portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 on a price return (-0.5% vs. S&P -0.8%) basis and on a total return (0.0% vs. S&P -0.5%) basis YTD.[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 9.5% annualized vs. just 7.7% for the S&P 500 and Russell 2000.
Click here to download a full breakdown of our Model Portfolios’ performance through 1Q22.
[1] S&P 500 performance varies for each portfolio due to different publish dates and measurement periods. See the individual portfolio sections in report for more details.