+96% last month, VSAT is off the list of AI picks for September: Here’s what’s in

Investing.com -- In August, InvestingPro members who subscribed to our list of AI-picked stock picks notched results that would otherwise take years to achieve.

Within the list of picks that gained collectively 12.5% during the month with an 85% hit rate—obliterating the S&P 500’s also solid 3.5% gain—two picks rallied by more than 60%+ during the month. To wit:

• ViaSat Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT): Up +95.99% in the month ALONE
• Sapiens: Up +60.37% in the month ALONE

While the latter was delisted mid-August after being taken private by a group of investors led by BlackRock, paying a 60% premium in cash to the company’s shareholders, VSAT continued to gain session by session.

But as the AI reevaluated its tech picks for the new month, it decided that it would be best to take profits on its golden goose and use the proceeds to buy other, 15 better-positioned names.

One such name is the emerging cybersecurity play Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP).

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Here’s the AI’s rationale for choosing CHKP for September:

• High profitability, fortress balance sheet, and strategic product pivots—now trading at a discount.
• It’s less about hypergrowth, more about quality plus a market overreaction.
• For investors who like “buying fear,” this setup is tailor-made.
• Profit machine: Net income margin of 33%, free cash flow yield of 5%, and ROE north of 30%—metrics most software peers would envy.

But if you’re still holding VSAT stock, does this mean you should sell it now?

Well, not necessarily. What it means instead is that the AI has found 15 other tech picks that it considers to have a higher likelihood of outperformance, given the current market conditions and fundamental metrics.

As a matter of fact, while VSAT was removed from the list of tech picks, it was added to the list of mid-cap picks. The reason for this is that the latter offers a higher risk-return proposition.

Constantly rebalancing risks and updating its list of picks every month is the key secret that has led our AI models to notch a jaw-dropping 130.74% return since launch in November 2023, more than 91% higher than the S&P 500 during the same period.

*These are real-world gains, not backtested or fictional results.

But ProPicks AI doesn’t only offer US stock picks. As a matter of fact, the returns of our non-US selection of picks since their official launch this year is arguably even better. See below:

• 390 stocks recorded an average gain of +7.71%
• This corresponds to a hit rate of 63.41%
• Not only are the winners in the majority, but they also outperform the losers by 78.11%
• 90% of the strategies are in the green.
• 91 stocks show a profit of over 10%—an average of 17.8%.
• The best strategy gained 11.8% in August ALONE.

Amongst the highlights, our AI has picked names such as:

• Thyssenkrupp (OTC:TYEKF) (ETR:TKAG): 148.10% (While in the AI-powered list of picks from January to April 2025, UP +33.62% after being added again in July)
• ABL Bio (KQ:298380) (Korea): 121.3% (While in the AI-powered list of picks from January to June 2025)
• Colab Cloud Platforms (BO:COLA) (India): 111.8% (While in the AI-powered list of picks from March to May 2025)
• Indra Sistemas (OTC:ISMAY) (BME:IDR) (Spain): +100.29% since picked in January.

All rallying more than 100% since the start of the year.

And that’s not all, 75% of the composed strategies for non-US stocks are also beating their respective benchmarks by a wide margins. See below:

• Italian Growth Stars: +34.26% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 10.62%
• Korean Value Bargain Stocks: +37.50%% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 6.52%
• Industrial Champions Germany: +39.74% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 19.27%
• Cheap Brazilian Stocks: +32.45% since launch this year, beating its respective benchmark by 12.60%
• Spanish Market Leaders: +41.23% since launch this year, beating the benchmark by 13.96%

The outperformance continues even in markets where the benchmark has delivered negative returns over the year, including countries like India and Saudi Arabia. Case in point:

• Bharat Small Cap Gems: +8.68% this year, beating the benchmark by 16.48%
• TASI Superstars: +0.97% this year, beating the benchmark by 12.64%

Here’s how the AI stock-picking technology works

At the start of each month, our AI refreshes each strategy with up to 20 stock picks. These selections are based on a blend of more than 150 well-established financial models compiled by our machine learning model on over 15 years of financial data worldwide.

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.

Since launch, the model has done just that — delivering more than a few standout success stories along the way.

As a matter of fact, our backtest suggests that going the long run is the surest path to long-term wealth generation.

Check out the 12-year outperformance of Tech Titans over the S&P 500 below:

This means a $100K principal in our strategy would have turned into an eye-popping $2,420,100.

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