Our Model Portfolio Performance in 2021

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 2021, 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 32% in 2021.
• Our large cap short strategy beat the short S&P 500 by 23% in 2021.
• Our large and small cap long/short strategy beat the Risk-Free Rate by 17% in 2021.
• The Focus List Stocks: Long beat the S&P 500 (+58.4% vs. S&P +26.9%) in 2021.
• The Focus List Stocks: Short beat the S&P 500 as a short portfolio (-15.9% vs. S&P +26.9%) in 2021 and since inception.
• The Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 (+25.6% vs. S&P +22.7%) in 2021.
• The Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio outperformed the S&P 500 on a price return (+17.8% vs. S&P +16.3%) basis and on a total return (+22.2% vs. S&P +17.4%) basis in 2021.
• The Dividend Growth Stocks Model Portfolio underperformed the S&P 500 on a price return (+13.2% vs. S&P +14.2%) basis and outperformed on a total return (+16.3% vs. S&P +15.7%) basis in 2021.[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 10.5% annualized vs. just 8.3% for the S&P 500 and Russell 2000.

Click here to download a full breakdown of our Model Portfolios’ performance in 2021.

[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.