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Investing.com -- After yet another highly positive month for global risk markets, with both the S&P 500 and the MSCI World closing July in the green, August has kicked off on a grimmer note.
Markets were red across the board to start the month as they reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff deadline, which brought unpleasant surprises for countries like Canada, Switzerland, and Brazil.
But despite the pullback, the market reaction remains far from what we saw in April this year, when the S&P 500 plunged more than 10% in two days following Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement.
But why is that?
Well, while global investors seem to have already looked past a bigger threat to the global economy, the real story here is that, despite rolling tariffs in Q2, global corporate profitability has been simply unmatched in the last quarter.
In fact, a jaw-dropping 84% of S&P 500 companies have beaten analyst estimates this earnings season so far—blowing past the historical average of 74%. That’s a level of outperformance not seen since the pandemic recovery surge in early 2021.
Against this backdrop, those positioned in highly profitable, well-positioned, momentum-fueled names are clearing the table—and are not worried at all about Trump’s tariff threat.
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Those wins include:
- Medpace Holdings (NASDAQ:MEDP): +33.06% in July
- Commerzbank (ETR:CBKG) (Germany): +20.97% in July
- Tongyang (KS:001520) Life (Korea): +20.09% in July
- DN Automotive (Korea): +25.27% in July
- OCI Co (Korea): +23.48% in July
- Grupo Televisa Unit (Mexico): +22.74% in July
- Controladora Vuela (Mexico): +22.39% in July
- Girisim Elektrik Taahhut (IS:GESAN) Ticaret Sanayi (Turkey): +21.13% in July
- Dap Gayrimenkul Gelistirme (Turkey): +47.53% in July
- Thyssenkrupp AG (ETR:TKAG) ADR (OTC:TKAMY (OTC:TKAMY)) (ETR:TKAG) (Germany): +19.90% in July; +198.55% since first picked in January this year.
Among several others...
In fact, after another winning July, the hit rate of these AI-powered strategies has jumped to a massive 97.27%.
Not only that, but a whopping 72.5% of the AI-picked stock selections are beating their respective benchmarks.
See more relevant stats below:
In fact, since the official launch in November 2023, our tech-focused strategy has delivered an eye-popping 106.57% return - that’s 67.78% more returns than the benchmark.
Globally, since the official launch of non-US strategies in January this year, the performance couldn’t be better. See some results below:
- Italian Growth Stars: +29.51% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 12.99%
- Korean Value Bargain Stocks: +42.47% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 10.40%
- Industrial Champions Germany: +43.24% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 24.96%
- Best Brazilian Stocks: +18.49% since launch this year, beating its respective benchmark by 6.93%
- Spanish Market Leaders: +37.36% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 14.35%
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Some stocks are added, others retained, and a few are removed, reflecting how the model reassesses each company’s medium-term growth potential.
To track performance, each strategy uses equal weighting across all selected stocks. While you’re not required to follow that weighting exactly, it offers a consistent benchmark to evaluate how well the model identifies opportunities across the board.
At the end of the day, stock picking is still a game of probabilities. But the key isn’t just finding winners — it’s knowing when to move on from the ones that no longer stack up.
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Check out the 12-year outperformance of Tech Titans over the S&P 500 below:
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