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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.

Performance data starting December, 2022

This was when we first started sharing our weekly top names cohorts in the Portfolio Armor Substack.

Starting Date Portfolio Armor 6-Month Performance SPY 6-Month Performance
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 38.50% 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%
November 2, 2023 34.67% 17.72%
November 9, 2023 52.30% 20.39%
November 16, 2023 36.87% 17.90%
November 22, 2023 -3.19% 16.91%
November 30, 2023 23.81% 14.97%
December 7, 2023 51.72% 17.01%
December 14, 2023 28.50% 15.46%
December 21, 2023 25.75% 15.56%
December 28, 2023 14.30% 14.54%
January 4, 2024 17.45% 18.40%
January 11, 2024 28.42% 17.20%
January 18, 2024 11.48% 16.36%
January 25, 2024 -0.24% 10.68%
February 1, 2024 6.81% 11.36%
February 8, 2024 2.70% 6.83%
February 15, 2024 1.55% 10.53%
February 22, 2024 -7.98% 9.95%
February 29, 2024 -19.46% 10.25%
March 7, 2024 -18.73% 5.30%
March 14, 2024 1.36% 9.49%
March 20, 2024 9.25% 9.87%
March 28, 2024 3.28% 9.94%
April 4, 2024 -6.54% 12.38%
April 11, 2024 -0.10% 12.59%
April 18, 2024 31.27% 17.77%
April 25, 2024 26.64% 15.73%
May 2, 2024 12.96% 13.78%
May 9, 2024 5.23% 15.72%
May 16, 2024 8.05% 11.49%
May 23, 2024 26.44% 13.94%
May 30, 2024 16.89% 16.02%
June 6, 2024 37.78% 14.40%
Average 18.80% 12.78%

So Portfolio Armor's top ten names averaged 18.80% over the average of these 76 6-month periods, versus SPY's average of 12.78%.

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

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