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Fidelity Select Funds: Best Fidelity Select Funds for 2019

Fidelity Select Medical Technology and Devices leads the performance table in 2018 with a year-to-date return of 10%. This compares with a decline of 46% for the year’s worst performer, Fidelity Select Energy Service. Which Fidelity Select Fund will be 2019’s best performer? The year 2018 is being called the ‘year when nothing worked’. For the first time… Read More »

Fidelity Select Semiconductors Portfolio Outlook

Fidelity Select Semiconductors Portfolio is up over 6% in July and over 35% for the year. What is driving semiconductor stocks? How is Fidelity Select Semiconductors Portfolio positioned? Will the fund continue to lead the market? Semiconductor stocks are among the top performers over the past 12 months. They are up 14% as measured by advance of the… Read More »

FWRLX | Fidelity Select Wireless

Operating metrics for wireless companies are improving as pricing has firmed as pricing has firmed and customer churn has moderated. Stocks in the wireless group have been on a tear. Is it time for investors to bail out of this group? During the go-go days of the late 90s, capital was cheap and wireless service providers invested heavily… Read More »

Fidelity Select Funds: Choose the Best Fidelity Sector Fund Consistently

Few investment products have as many fanatics as Fidelity Select funds do. Why? The Fidelity Select fund aficionados know that they can beat the market by judiciously selecting such funds. Here are the facts: The average Fidelity Select fund has outperformed the S&P 500 by 4.7% per year over the past 20 years. The stats get even better.… Read More »

Fidelity Select Chemicals and Chemical ETFs: Why Invest?

Fidelity Select Chemicals and Chemical ETFs look attractive, as potential for margins to widen and deal activity to provide abnormal returns sustain the leadership of chemical stocks. Selected groups in the consumer discretionary and technology sectors like auto and computers led the way in 2009 as stock prices started to recover from the Great Recession. In 2010, the… Read More »

Fidelity Select Funds: Best, Worst, and 2011 Forecast

Although stocks are down this month, large-cap U. S. stocks are likely to close 2014 with a gain. With just a few more trading days left, Fidelity Spartan 500 Index Fund (FUSEX) that tracks the S&P 500 index ($SPX) is up 10.4% for the year. Twenty-nine of the 42 Fidelity sector funds are in the black in 2014.… Read More »

Alternative Energy Mutual Funds and ETFs – Fidelity Investments and FSLEX

Fidelity Investments is now offering investors a way to invest in the alternative energy group by extending the investment objective of a Fidelity Select fund. Sensing stronger demand from investors to invest in alternative energy ideas following BP’s (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Massey Energy’s (MEE) coal mine disaster in West Virginia, Fidelity has… Read More »

Auto and Auto Part Stocks: Autoliv, Penske Auto, and Five More Ways to Play the Turnaround

The financial crisis took a toll on 2009 US auto sales pushing them below 1982 levels. At the depth of the recession, auto sales slumped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 9.2 million a year, nearly 44% lower than the pre-recession level of nearly 16.5 million units in 2007. While cash-for-clunkers provided the initial boost late… Read More »

Fidelity Sector Funds

Maximize Your Returns and Minimize Risks Fidelity sector funds can be volatile investment vehicles particularly when viewed in isolation. However, AlphaProfit can help you achieve extraordinary returns by exploiting the return potential of Fidelity sector funds while lowering your risk. AlphaProfit helps you maximize your returns from Fidelity sector funds while minimizing your risks. How do we do… Read More »

Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios

High-potential diversified portfolios can be constructed by dividing assets among a group of sector funds. This approach gives the investor flexibility to over-weight or under-weight certain sectors versus broadly diversified indexes. Sector funds are too risky.’ ‘I doubled my money with Fidelity Select Technology in 12 months!’ ‘Avoid sector funds.’ If all of this sounds confusing, you are… Read More »

New ETF and Mutual Fund Recommendations

The Fidelity and ETF Core and Focus model portfolios have gained at annualized rates of 14.5% and 17.7%, respectively since 1994. The model portfolios will be repositioned with new mutual fund and ETF recommendations on Monday, September 30. Learn more about AlphaProfit's Free and Premium Service investment newsletters.