![]() ![]() Like Buffett, editor Marc Johnson relies for his stock picking on many of the same valuation criteria championed by Benjamin Graham, the father of fundamental analysis. “Investment Reporter,” 15-year annualized return: 11.9%. He recommends companies that have recently experienced a period of bad news and whose stock prices are depressed. Like Buffett, editor George Putnam is a contrarian. “Turnaround Letter,” 15-year annualized return: 12.1%. In comparing his return to Buffett’s, don’t forget that Buffett’s return is also dependent on margin - funded by the substantial float generated by his insurance operations. Editor Nate Pile is an aggressive trader, sometimes employing margin in his recommended model portfolios. “Nate’s Notes,” 15-year annualized return: 13.4%. (I did the calculations, as Buffett listed calendar-year returns.) Listed below are the 10 Hulbert Financial Digest-monitored advisers who have bettered that return, in descending order of performance. None of them makes you wait a whole year, as Buffett does, to get updated insights.Īccording to Buffett’s latest report, the 15-year annualized growth rate through 2014 of Berkshire Hathaway’s In addition, each of those 10 can boast of something else besides superior performance: They are published at least monthly, if not more frequently. Of the 200 investment letters whose performance is monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest, no fewer than 10 have outperformed Buffett over the past 15 years - since the top of the Internet bubble, in other words. This is more than just a historical curiosity. (Dow Jones also is the publisher of MarketWatch.) The Wall Street Journal itself began as an investment letter in 1883, when Charles Dow and Edward Jones inaugurated “The Customer’s Afternoon Letter.” Dow and Jones changed their service’s name to Wall Street Journal in 1889. This article was originally published on InvestorPlace Media.How far back does that tradition extend? In the U.S., it dates at least to the 1800s. Louis Navellier may hold some of the aforementioned securities in one or more of his newsletters. Navellier has made his proven formula accessible to investors via his free, online stock rating tool,. He uses a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis to identify market-beating stocks. ![]() His most popular service, Blue Chip Growth, has a track record of beating the market 3:1 over the last 14 years. He is the editor of five investing newsletters: Blue Chip Growth, Emerging Growth, Ultimate Growth, Family Trust and Platinum Growth. ![]() Louis Navellier is a renowned growth investor. The stock is set to finish 2015 up roughly 48%, and I think it will lead the market ahead in 2016. TSS has been public since 1983, so it has been at the vanguard of the payment solutions industry much long than most companies in the industry have even existed - that kind of perspective and management is key. And by the ’70s, it was pioneer the outsourcing of data processing for card companies. Total System Services started in the late 1950s working with credit card companies into building card programs with banks. And like most banks, FBC has used its piles of cash very well in the past couple of years. FIX is a national leader in helping make buildings smarter.įIX stock will finish up 68% in 2015, and that’s including a small selloff after the Federal Reserve’s rate hike in early December.įlagstar Bancorp (FBC) is a Michigan-based bank. HVAC firms like FIX are also experts in making old buildings run like new ones, upgrading equipment and building in new systems. Because of the uneven and hard-to-read recovery, businesses continue to hold back on investing in the workforce, but they are seeing the value in picking up land and property and upgrading. As long as companies have a pile of cash sitting around one great place to put it to work is real estate. ![]() Comfort Systems USA (FIX) is a national HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) systems engineering and maintenance company for industrial, professional and government clients.Ĭommercial real estate is still one of the hot sectors going. ![]()
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