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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: DragonTales ✸  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: So my question is…
Date: 05/07/24 1:57 PM
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Now, imagine you could simply skip investing in a randomly selected 20 of the many losers, and invested equally in all the other 480 companies for the same one year period.
I tried this, and the average one year return rose to 22.1%, an increase of 5.4%.


So you got a list of 1-year losers, and then picked 20 of them randomly, and then did the test on the remaining 480 for the follow-on year?

What would be a way to select 20 or so potential losers? Low ROE and low cash? Bad relative price strength in a weak sector?

Tails

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