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Each year, the best performing Fidelity Select fund on average beats the S&P 500 by 43%, that is 4300 basis points. Which fund will be 2020’s best?
Semiconductor stocks are hot. Fidelity Select Semiconductors Portfolio FSELX is up 21% annually over the past 5 years. What is the outlook for FSELX? Is FSELX a buy, sell or hold?
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 »
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 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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Fidelity Investments offers sector funds under the Fidelity Select fund umbrella. We prefer these Fidelity sector funds for the following reasons: Fidelity Sector Fund Choices After pioneering the sector investing concept in 1981, Fidelity Investments has expanded the Fidelity Select funds to span 7 sector groups. Each sector group has one broad sector fund and several industry-specific funds.… Read More »
The Fidelity and ETF Core and Focus model portfolios have gained at annualized rates of 15.0% and 18.3%, respectively since 1994. The model portfolios were repositioned with new mutual fund and ETF recommendations on Thursday, December 31. Learn more about AlphaProfit's Free and Premium Service investment newsletters.
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DEC. 1993 to DEC. 2019| Fidelity Agg. Growth | 18.2% |
| Fidelity Growth | 15.0% |
| ETF Agg. Growth | 18.3% |
| ETF Growth | 14.8% |
| No-Fee Growth (inc. 2009) | 12.2% |
| S&P 500 | 9.9% |
DEC. 2013 to DEC. 2019| Win Rate | 92% |
| Avg. Holding Period | 2.5 months |
| Avg. Gain | 12.2% |
