Latest from the Portfolio Armor blog: Top Names, 4/25/2024

Performance: Top Names

Since June of 2017, we've been posting Portfolio Armor's top ten names ranked by potential return, net of hedging cost, and tracking their unhedged performance in real time. We post the performance of weekly top names cohorts in the table below, six months after we share them with subscribers.

In June of 2022, we updated the way we select our top names, by adding a new factor.

Starting Date Portfolio Armor 6-Month Performance SPY 6-Month Performance
June 30, 2022 -3.10% 3.16%
July 7, 2022 2.71% 1.53%
July 14, 2022 -4.40% 7.31%
July 21, 2022 -3.94% 1.02%
July 28, 2022 -7.61% 1.67%
August 4, 2022 -24.34% 1.32%
August 11, 2022 -25.02% -1.13%
August 18, 2022 -14.96% -3.14%
August 25, 2022 -24.61% -3.85%
September 1, 2022 -7.42% 1.33%
September 8, 2022 -26.02% 1.39%
September 15, 2022 -37.71% 1.55%
September 22, 2022 -0.44% 6.57%
September 29, 2022 -14.31% 12.52%
October 6, 2022 -22.79% 11.52%
October 13, 2022 11.11% 14.91%
October 20, 2022 4.56% 14.64%
October 27, 2022 -7.28% 10.39%
November 3, 2022 -4.82% 11.85%
November 10, 2022 25.48% 6.39%
November 17, 2022 34.45% 7.12%
November 23, 2022 -11.68% 4.66%
December 1, 2022 10.59% 5.31%
December 8, 2022 5.09% 10.15%
December 15, 2022 17.32% 15.54%
December 22, 2022 24.52% 15.97%
December 29, 2022 30.94% 15.57%
January 5, 2023 39.55% 18.14%
January 12, 2023 30.05% 13.65%
January 19, 2023 47.63% 18.47%
January 26, 2023 34.96% 13.83%
February 2, 2023 2.54% 9.24%
February 9, 2023 4.70% 10.75%
February 16, 2023 14.18% 8.92%
February 23, 2023 30.43% 11.84%
March 2, 2023 17.95% 14.72%
March 9, 2023 23.87% 15.09%
March 16, 2023 5.30% 13.62%
March 23, 2023 10.69% 10.27%
March 30, 2023 9.00% 6.66%
April 6, 2023 16.57% 5.74%
April 13, 2023 -1.79% 5.12%
April 20, 2023 6.88% 3.01%
April 27, 2023 9.45% 0.31%
May 4, 2023 13.28% 8.08%
May 11, 2023 8.52% 7.69%
May 18, 2023 9.91% 8.31%
May 25, 2023 -2.77% 10.61%
June 1, 2023 -6.11% 9.63%
June 8, 2023 12.72% 8.02%
June 15, 2023 19.14% 7.25%
June 22, 2023 9.37% 9.34%
June 29, 2023 11.32% 9.32%
July 6, 2023 -0.97% 7.24%
July 13, 2023 -0.61% 6.84%
July 20, 2023 -4.82% 7.51%
July 27, 2023 4.78% 8.54%
August 3, 2023 20.98% 10.98%
August 10, 2023 35.94% 13.26%
August 17, 2023 89.37% 15.37%
August 24, 2023 62.22% 17.13%
August 31, 2023 30.72% 13.68%
September 7, 2023 44.34% 16.61%
September 14, 2023 33.97% 15.22%
September 21, 2023 51.45% 21.54%
September 28, 2023 38.51% 22.56%
October 5, 2023 61.35% 22.62%
October 12, 2023 29.96% 18.28%
October 19, 2023 32.93% 16.59%
October 26, 2023 30.99% 23.70%
Average 12.08% 9.67%

So Portfolio Armor's top ten names averaged 12.08% over the average of these 70 6-month periods, versus SPY's average of 9.67%.

See performance data starting December, 2022 See performance data starting June, 2017