Stock-Picking System Returned 32.1% In First Quarter of 2006

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 4, 2006

BeatTheStockMarket.com, an online investment newsletter, released their returns through for the first quarter of 2006. Since inception in 1998, the website's model portfolio has returned 34.2% per year (1,008.8% 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 91.2% 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 (1,008.8% versus Berkshire's 96.4%).

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. +317.1%
• LifePoint Hospitals +290.3%
• Cavco Industries +255.8%
• Chaparral Steel Company +187.3%
• Altria +166.1%
• Zimmer Holdings +157.1%
• Florida Rock Industries +154.4%
• Rockwell Collins +150.2%
• SCS Transportation Inc. +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 83.1% while the S&P 500 rose only 14.8%. Annualized, this portfolio's return is 47.5% 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 62.9% per year. These returns assume that profits are not reinvested. If profits were reinvested, the gain would jump to 129.1% per year.

Another model portfolio that offers a handful of recommended stocks is the Cornerstone Growth Stock Screen. Each month three stocks from a subset of fifty recommended companies are selected as having great potential for superior price appreciation. Buying these three stocks and holding for a month has resulted in an annualized return of 98.9%. These returns include the cost of commissions. Investors using a one-year holding period instead of one month would have achieved an annualized return of 52.7%.

BeatTheStockMarket.com also features a model option portfolio. Thus far, in its first three years of existence, the portfolio has returned 51.5% per option with an average holding period of 7 months. This is equivalent to an annualized return of 103.3% 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 (+26.1% per year, +96.4% 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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