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The Performance of our Stock Picks has been outstanding, even including the two market crashes of 2008 and of the early 2000's.
Future Results Will Differ From Past Results
| Year | '00 | '01 | '02 | '03 | '04 | '05 | '06 | '07 | '08 | '09 | '10 | '11 | '12 | Compound Average |
Cumulative Return |
| Average Increase for Buy or Strong Buy Rated Stocks | 18% | 14% | 1% | 57% | 25% | 28% | 20% | -1% | -34% | 37% | 14% | 0% | 15% | 13% | 389% |
| Number of Stocks | 20 | 13 |
22 |
21 | 11 | 18 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 21 | 20 | 23 | ||
| Percent of Buys that Rose during year (Winning %) | 75% | 69% | 45% | 83% | 83% | 92% | 86% | 42% | 8% | 82% | 81% | 40% | 87% | Below 50% correct is shown in red representing a poor year |
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To see complete details of our performance back to year 2000 (our first full year) including graphs and details by individual stock, click the link below. Our detailed performance even shows the full results of the Editor's personal portfolio!
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These outstanding returns were achieved mostly in established profitable (and cash flow positive) companies - and not risky penny stocks.
Most of our stocks would be considered value companies, or "growth-at-a-reasonable-value". These include financials (banks, property insurance, life insurance, wealth management), restaurants, retail, railroads, cable, telephone, breweries, manufactures and more.
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We make no guarantees or predictions regarding future returns, but we hope to continue to beat the market indexes.
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Below are graphs that illustrate our performance and the personal investment results of the editor of this site:
The following graph, shows (as of December 31, 2012) the performance of our Stock Picks and of my own portfolio, and of the S&P 500 and the Toronto Stock Index since the end of 1999 when this Web Site started. The Blue line is the average of our Buy or higher rated stocks, the pink line is the performance of the personal portfolio of the editor/ owner of this Site, the black line is the Toronto stock index and the red line is the S&P 500.
Here is how the editor's personal RRSPs (including his spouse's) have grown since the end of 1999 / start of 2000 which corresponds to the period since the editor started this Web Site. And, this was achieved by investing mostly in stable dividend-paying companies. The editor suspects that very few people achieved a better record over this time period. This is as of May 18, 2013.
The following shows the compounded rate of return on the editor's total personal portfolio (includes more than the RRSPs) for the multi-year period since each year shown to the present. As of December 31, 2012.
The above graph shows that the editor's compounded return has been in the range of 12% annually and surprisingly stable. Money that has been invested for only a few years (since about 2006) has compounded at various rates depending when invested, but money that has been invested for more than seven years has compounded at rates that are remarkably stable at around 12% whether invested for eight years or nine or ten, or even twenty three years (since 1989). The annual returns were quite volatile and include some negative years but when measured over a longer period of years the return has tended to average back to about 12% per year compounded.
The following shows the editor's percentage return on his total investments each year. This chart is updated to May 18, 2013
Another way to look at return results is to look at the average compounded return earned over various 10-year rolling periods. The editor of this site has been investing since the start of 1989. We can look at the average compounded return achieved in each of the 15 ten year rolling periods from 1989-1998 through 2003-2012. Here are the results for the editor's personal total portfolio (includes his spouse and education savings plan). This is as of December 31, 2012.
The above graph shows that the editor has never made less than a 8% compounded annual return over any ten calendar year period. The average return across all the 15 ten-year rolling periods appears to be just under 12%. For the most recent ten year period, my returns have averaged a compounded 16.8% per year. There is, of course, absolutely no guarantee that these results will continue to apply in future.
