Investment Newsletter Has Released Their Returns for 2005

Averaging 33.6% per year since 1998 for a total return of 914.8% (including 99.6% from 2003 through 2004), the stock-picking strategy employed by this investment newsletter has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Additionally, a newly-developed stock-selection methodology has returned 94.4% since 9/14/2004, including the cost of commissions. For 2005, this particular strategy resulted in a gain of 55.1%.

(PRWEB) January 10, 2006 -- BeatTheStockMarket.com released their returns for 2005. Since inception in 1998, the website's model portfolio has returned 33.6% per year (914.8% overall), has produced a gain each year, and has beaten the S&P 500 eight out of eight years. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 84.1% and portfolio turnover is low.

Even during the three-year bear market, their model stock portfolio produced gains each year. While the market lost (-39%) during the bear market, BeatTheStockMarket.com's model portfolio produced a gain (+21%).

The model stock portfolio has also easily out-performed Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock over the last eight years (914.8% versus Berkshire's 92.7%).

Following are a few of the companies from the newsletter's model portfolios and each stock's performance:

- Marine Products Corp. +539.3%

- Fording Canadian Coal Trust +539.2%

- Gen-Probe Inc. +305.8%

- LifePoint Hospitals +290.3%

- Cavco Industries +255.8%

- Altria +174.7%

- Zimmer Holding +157.1%

- Florida Rock Industries (FRK) +154.4%

- Rockwell Collins +150.2%

- SCS Transportation Inc. (SCST) +142.7%

- Cimarex Energy +139.1%

- Ambassadors Group +138.7%

- Imagistics International Inc. +129.4%

While most of the newsletter's portfolios are designed for long-term investors, the newsletter has a Short-Term Portfolio in which individual stocks are held for only a few weeks on average. This methodology has provided subscribers with a return of 64.9% while the S&P 500 rose only 10.6%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 46.5% per year after factoring in the cost of commissions. In 2005, these stock recommendations gained 34.8% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a loss (-0.6%).

For investors who don't have the funds to invest in all of the stocks of the Short-Term Portfolio, the editors of the website select a handful of stocks from the Short-Term Portfolio that they believe have the most potential for explosive growth. These stocks are labeled "Double Allocation" stocks, and their return is 94.4% in a little more than 15 months. That's the annualized equivalent of 66.1% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 128.5% in a little more than 15 months.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first two years of existence, the portfolio has returned 37.3% per option with an average holding period of 6.7 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 75.8% per year. Below are a few of the call options recommended by the newsletter and the option's performance following the newsletter's buy signal:

- Zimmer Holdings +697.1% in only seven and a half months

- Cimarex Energy Co. +253.2% in only seven and a half months

- Rockwell Collins +240.8% in only five and a half months

In addition to individual stock recommendations, the company also has a model portfolio for mutual funds. The return of the portfolio (+25.3% per year, +82.2% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500.

The newsletter offers a 21-day free trial that allows prospective subscribers to view all recommended portfolios.

For additional information on the stock and mutual fund picking systems and the investment newsletter that employs them, visit www.BeatTheStockMarket.com.

Contact Information:

Nancy Wagner

Media Representative

425-415-6427

http://www.BeatTheStockMarket.com

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