Stock-Picking System Returned 33.9% Per Year Since 1998 - Additionally, a Newly-Developed System has Returned 85.2% in Fewer Than 11 Months (48.1% Year-to-Date)

Investment newsletter released their returns through the first seven months of 2005.

Redmond, WA (PRWEB) August 2, 2005

BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter, released their returns through the first seven months of 2005. Since inception in 1998, the model portfolio has returned 33.9% per year (817.1% overall), has produced a gain each year, has beaten the S&P 500 seven out of seven years, and is out-performing the S&P 500 year-to-date. Sell signals for the portfolio have an average return of 82.3% while portfolio turnover is low. Seventy-two percent of the portfolio's stocks have resulted in a gain.

Even during the three-year bear market, their model 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 seven years (817.1% versus Berkshire's 81.5%).

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

  • Marine Products Corp. +539.3%
  • Fording Canadian Coal Trust +539.2%
  • LifePoint Hospitals +290.3%
  • Gen-Probe Inc. +266.7%
  • Cavco Industries +183.5%
  • Zimmer Holding +157.1%
  • Rockwell Collins +150.2%
  • Ambassadors Group +138.7%
  • Altria +122.0%
  • Cimarex Energy +143.7%
  • 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 new methodology, started late last summer, has provided subscribers with a return of 54.2% while the S&P 500 rose only 9.4%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 63.9% per year after factoring in the cost of commissions.

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 85.2% in less than 11 months. That's the annualized equivalent of 102.4% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 161% in less than 11 months.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first two years of existence, the portfolio has returned 48.1% per option with an average holding period of 6.7 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 101.3% 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 (+26.7% per year, +69.9% overall) easily surpasses that of the S&P 500.

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

Contact Information:
Nancy Wagner
Media Representative
425-415-6427
http://www.BeatTheStockMarket.com

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