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Investing.com -- After months of what seemed like an endless rally, mega-cap investors were surprised to see an overall mixed start to Q3 earnings season.
Amid historically high EPS and revenue expectations, with analysts revising S&P 500 projections upwards at the start of the season—a rare occurrence even in post-COVID markets—several of the big names have disappointed. Take Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) for starters.
Those names have experienced shrinking margins despite increasing profitability, primarily due to higher operational costs, including more expensive AI infrastructure spending and geopolitical volatility.
Yet, while most of the news focuses on those bigger names, the real story of this season has been the broadening of the rally.
In fact, unlike past seasons, four of the expected top five contributors to year-over-year earnings growth in the S&P 500 for Q3 are not in the Mag 7. To wit: NVIDIA, Boeing, Eli Lilly, Intel, and Micron Technology.
This environment has, so far, proven fertile ground for Mid-Cap investors, who are seeing several double-digit wins play out across the board.
Such is the case of our premium members, who, for less than $10 a month, received a list of AI-picked mid-cap stocks at the start of this earnings season and are now seeing wins play out across their portfolios.
Among those names, several have already gained more than 10% this month alone. Just to name a few:
- ViaSat (NASDAQ:VSAT): +27% MTD
- Victoria’s Secret & Co (NYSE:VSCO): +11.55% MTD
- Charles River Laboratories (NYSE:CRL): +12.02% MTD
- Generac Holdings Inc (NYSE:GNRC): +12.60% MTD
Among several others...
In fact, 80% of our AI’s mid-cap picks for October are in the green this month. This is the main reason why the composed list of picks is beating its benchmark index by a massive 16.11% this year.
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Long-term, the results are even more impressive. In less than two years since the official launch, the AI has returned a game-changing +143.51%, outperforming the S&P 500 by a massive +104.72%.
*These are real-world results, recorded since the launch of our AI-powered stock picker (November 2023 for US stocks; January 2025 for global stocks).
How Our AI Can Help You Win This Earnings Season
As the better-known names near a short-term peak in terms of their fundamentals, with Wall Street expecting massive EPS growth for the mag 7 to return only in Q1 2026, spotting fundamentally strong names beyond that space will likely be the key determinant of portfolio success in Q4.
This is where our investor-grade AI-powered model can make all the difference.
It compiles Wall Street’s most recognized financial models (hundreds of them) and applies them to every stock in the market.
It then reruns them on a recurring basis against other control groups, ensuring the picks have a long-term statistical advantage over the randomly selected stocks and benchmark indexes.
Based on these results, at the start of each month, the 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.
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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