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71 stocks fail beat market
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AI-generatedThe article is a general market commentary on the difficulty of stock-picking versus passive indexing. It does not identify any specific company, product, commodity, or supply chain disruption. No concrete commercial mechanism, investment, regulation, or price move is reported. Therefore, no sector impact is detected.
Signals our AI researcher identified
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- 71% of individual stocks fail to beat the market over rolling 10-year periods.
- Only 4% of companies from 1926 to 2018 created net wealth relative to T-bills.
- SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) returned 251.82% over the past decade.
- High-quality companies (15%+ return on tangible assets sustained over a decade) outperform low-quality ones 3-to-1 over 35 years.
