Per­for­mance of our Most Attrac­tive Stocks con­sis­tently ranks as among the best of all the major firms accord­ing to Barron’s. Our top-ranked stock research dri­ves our Pre­dic­tive Rat­ings for 7400+ ETFs and mutual funds.

1. 2nd Half of 2011 Sur­vey: “Focus Lists Were Out of Focus in 2011’s Tur­moil”, ranked #4 over 3 years
2. 1st Half of 2011 Sur­vey: “Stum­bling To the Halfway Mark”, ranked #2 over 3 years
3. Full-year 2010 Sur­vey: “Mar­ket Beat­ers”, ranked #2 over the prior 12 months and #3 over the prior 3 years.
4. 1st Half of 2010 Sur­vey: “Find­ing Good Stocks in Bad Mar­kets”, ranked #1 over the prior 12 months
5. Full-Year 2009 Sur­vey: “How the Bro­kers Stack Up”, ranked #2 over the prior 12 months
6. 1st Half of 2009 Sur­vey: “The Bull Resur­faces Just In Time”, ranked #2 over the prior 12 months

For a more com­plete list of media high­lights, click here for the Great­est Hits col­lec­tion. See stock-picking acco­lades for media cov­er­age spe­cific to our stock-picking.

Click here for details on stock rat­ing methodology.

Even if you think the Finan­cial Foot­notes do not mat­ter, you have to appre­ci­ate the con­sis­tency of our stock-picking suc­cess.

Why do our stock picks work? Our suc­cess comes from the unri­valed ana­lyt­i­cal rigor enabled by our Paradigm-shifting research plat­form and the fact that we are the only firm to have com­pletely ana­lyzed over 100,000 annual reports, 10-Ks, 10-K/As, 20-Fs, 40-Fs, 8-Ks, etc.

His­tor­i­cally, high lev­els of ana­lyt­i­cal rigor could be applied to only a hand­ful of com­pa­nies because man­u­ally read­ing and ana­lyz­ing the Finan­cial Foot­notes takes an enor­mous amount of time and exper­tise. Ana­lyz­ing the Notes requires read­ing hun­dred of pages for details on items like off-balance sheet debt, hid­den charges, false rev­enues, option lia­bil­i­ties, pen­sion lia­bil­i­ties and asset dis­pos­als. And every com­pany reports dif­fer­ently, which makes ana­lyz­ing the Notes even harder. Our patented research sys­tem cou­pled with our exper­tise enables us to read, ana­lyze and model the impact of data from the Finan­cial Foot­notes for 3000+ companies.

As detailed in Decod­ing Wall Street Pro­pa­ganda, Wall Street firms are in the busi­ness of sell­ing stock not good research. In fact, good research is in con­flict with their invest­ment bank­ing busi­ness, which makes all the prof­its of the bank while research depart­ments are pure cost cen­ters. This helps explain why New Con­structs con­sis­tently out­per­forms the big Wall Street firms, all of which have many mul­ti­ples of the resources we employ. Bet­ter to be effi­cient and have shared inter­ests with our clients…better for clients…at least.