Best Stocks to Buy Portoflio
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Best Stocks to Buy Indicators
Strengths + Opportunities = 417
Threats + Weaknesses = 220
When strengths & opportunities substantially exceed threats & weaknesses an investment in the Best Stocks to Buy Index has great long term potential. Click on top ten investments to see SWOT analysis statements for each of the Best Stocks to Buy Index's top holdings.
Performance: Since Wikiwealth.com's official launch on Nov. 4th of 2008, Wikiwealth.com's fund beat the stock market (S&P 500) by over 39.4%. The Best Stocks to Buy portfolio is up 98.3% while the general stock market is up 58.87%. For transparency, all transactions and dates are available on the portfolio page.
WikiWealth's best stock buys stock portfolio comprises of the very best stock investments according to WikiWealth's community of investors. Our investment community researched over 3,000 companies to make this list. We took a very conservative approach to this portfolio, because wanted to show that quality of our value investing style stock research. The portfolio is completely transparent, meaning you see all our holdings, trades, research, and conclusions. Everything is open to view, judge, and critique.
Portfolio Criteria includes:
1. Top stock buys needed a "Buy" rating for both the short term and long term.
2. WikiWealth only makes one stock change per year. This approach lowers trading fees and taxes by shielding against excessive portfolio turnover.
3. We use the S&P 500 as our portfolio benchmark. which is the benchmark by which most portfolio managers are judged.
4. This portfolio has equal weighted at each reshuffling date.
Wikiwealth last changed a large number of stocks in the portfolio after the total companies coverage by WikiWealth increased from 500 to 3,200. This allowed Wikiwealth to increase return and decrease overall risk. Risk decreased through global diversification.
Best Stocks Update:
On June 7th 2011, WikiWealth updated the best stock buy portfolio to include a number of new and exciting companies from around the world. The global nature of this portfolio brings many potential risks for investors from currency risk to debt issues. However, global investing has proved to be an effective way to diversify one's portfolio, which reduces risk overall while and increasing returns from investing abroad. WikiWealth aims to find the best investments in the world; we credit the work of our investing community. Before investing, thoroughly check each stock. Click to see each research report and don't forget to use the experimental mode to customize the report with your own assumptions.
To review last year's performance, we had some big hits like Global Crossing (GLBC), which increase 170%. Our lowest performance came from China Mobile (CHL. That was due to an incorrect computation of shares outstanding. We implore everyone to flag any share outstanding issues so we can correct them in the default analysis. WikiWealth also had a number of utility stocks that did well, but their performance only took off after the stock market's recent downturn. They held back portfolio performance until recently, but we expect utilities stocks to make great returns going forward.
In general, the best buy portfolio beat the stock market again last year. The portfolio beat the S&P 500 industry benchmark by 2.37% since August. The WikiWealth best buy portfolio earned a total return of 23.08% return versus the S&P500, which return 20.71%. The best buy portfolio is up 98.28% cumulatively versus the S&P500's performance of 58.87%. In an effort to be completely transparent and to help investors like you to make money, we display all of our holdings, transactions, and performance on the portfolio tab. Use the best stock buy portfolio to improve your investing.
