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Quality Growth Stocks
Folio Statistics
(As of 12-30-2005)
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Quality
Growth
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S&P
500 Index |
| 2005
Return |
5.31% |
4.90% |
| 2004
Return |
18.04% |
10.71% |
| 2003
Return |
33.35% |
28.70% |
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2002 Return
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-20.48%
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-22.23%
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2001 Return*
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10.49%
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8.06%
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Dividend Yield
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1.13%
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1.81%
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PE Ratio |
21.23 |
16.78 |
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Volatility
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12.76 |
11.19 |
| Beta |
1.05 |
1.00 |
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Market Cap
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91.6
bil |
74.1
bil |
*Since Inception Date: Oct. 9, 2001
Investment performance
figures from 2003 are based on actual results of a representative client.
Results prior to 2003 are those of our
model folio account since its inception. These figures do not
include our investment management fees.
Objective:
This folio is managed to achieve long term capital appreciation,
with little consideration to income. The volatility of this folio will
be similar to that of the S&P 500 index.
Investment Approach:
First, we narrow our candidate list of stocks to quality US companies that are
current market leaders in favorable industry groups. Based upon a
stock ranking system, we will buy the
highest ranked stocks from our candidate list. The
stocks in our candidate list have ranks or scores between 0 and 99 depending on value and growth characteristics based upon:
 | Wall Street analyst consensus earnings revisions |
 | Actual earnings surprises |
 | Earnings consistency |
 | Earnings growth / acceleration |
 | Reasonable valuations |
 | Price Relative strength |
We attempt to buy stocks in a very timely manner and achieve above
average performance soon after the purchase. Unless the stocks
performs exceptionally well in the first 3-6 months, it will be likely be
sold in favor of another another replacement stock that is considered to
be a more timely "buy".
For the purpose of risk control, If a company reports bad
news that that causes a
large price decline of 6-10% or more on high trading volume, we will sell the stock and replace it with
another high rated stock. |
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Candidates |
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qualify as a candidate for consideration in this folio, a company must have a market capitalization
above 10 billion and be one of the current market
leaders in an above average performing industry
group.
Current market leaders are considered to be companies
with strong earnings
growth and strong relative strength compared to the
overall market. |
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Stock Ranking System
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the stock rank of a
company in our folio drops below the 30th percentile, we will sell
the stock, and replace it with the highest ranked stock
in our current candidate list that we don't currently
own (subject to sector limits that we have established). |
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