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Zacks Home Run Investor Pursues
Big Long-Term Gains Without Big Risks

You are invited to follow this portfolio's buys and sells in real time for the next 30 days.

Special Opportunity Ends Midnight Sunday, November 3.


This portfolio turns up the best Zacks Rank growth stocks for the long haul. It uses a careful blend of Zacks strategies which enables us to pursue big, long-term gains without taking big risks. In a sense, it's "buy and hold," but in another, it's "buy and grow" because we're careful about what we hold and when we hold it. We'll use market-beating top-down and bottoms-up analysis with an eye towards key valuation insights to isolate stocks that were Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or #2 Ranked (Buy). The goal is to find the strong Zacks Rank stocks that generate positive earnings surprises quarter after quarter after quarter.

Portfolio Features

  • Buy & Sell Alerts
    update you via email or text message as soon as trades are added or removed from the portfolio.
  • Market Commentary
    briefs you on the latest developments and how they affect your trades.
  • Guide
    includes important tips to help you get the most out of the Home Run Investor portfolio.
  • Strategy Focus
    Aggressive Growth
  • Average Holdings
    25 to 30 stocks
  • Average Holding Period
    1 to 2 years*
  • Trades Per Month
    2 to 3 trades
Average Return
+24.2% per year

Using Zacks Rank Profit Power

This service applies the timely predictive power of the Zacks Rank to buy and sell decisions. From January 1, 1988 to March 4, 2024 this proven system has more than doubled the S&P 500. The average gain has been +24.2% per year.

From $10,000 to More Than $25.2 Million

S&P 500 vs. Zacks #1 Rank List Hypothetical Return on 10K Investment: Jan 1, 1988 - Mar 4, 2024
$448,793 S&P 500
 
$25,210,022 Zacks #1
Rank List
The S&P 500 Index is owned and published by McGraw-Hill

Maybe +24.2% per year doesn't sound thrilling, but let's suppose you had invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 in 1988. Rebalancing monthly and not counting fees, you would have more than $400,000 today.

But if you had put that same $10,000 into the Zacks Rank system, it could have compounded to more than $25.2 million dollars.

Home Runs Without Strike Outs

HRI Investor Editor - Brian Bolan

Brian Bolan
Growth Strategist

Under the direction of Zacks Aggressive Growth Strategist Brian Bolan, Home Run Investor targets stocks that have been unduly ignored and that show exceptional growth potential. Then it rides them to the limit of their promise.

For example, we bought Zendesk at $47.00 on 3/16/18. We rode it all the way until 9/24/19 when we sold at $74.28 amounting to a +58.0% gain in 18 months.

We also bought Everbridge at $43.27 on 5/16/18. Then we closely monitored its breakout until 5/31/19 when we sold at $79.48. That amounted to an +83.7% gain in a little over a year.

Using a careful blend of proven growth and valuation strategies, Home Run Investor aims to turn up some of Zacks' most substantial gains reaching double, even triple-digit gains. In fact, since its 2011 inception, it has scored more than 100 double and triple-digit gains.¹

Here is a look at some of the portfolio's closed sample historic gains¹:

  • +214.2% on Square
    7/11/17 - 10/10/18
  • +100.1% on 2U Inc.
    4/26/17 - 3/15/18
  • +90.8% on Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
    3/22/17 - 3/21/18
  • +161.0% on Micron
    10/13/16 - 1/26/18
  • +76.5% on Delek US Holdings, Inc.
    11/15/17 - 5/8/18

Total Cost for 30-Day Access to Home Run Investor: $1


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What portfolios are included in Zacks Ultimate?

You gain real-time access to buys, sells, and market commentary from all of these private services:

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  • Healthcare Innovators Tracks breakthroughs in the pipeline throughout the healthcare sector - including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, devices, hospitals, and more.
  • Home Run Investor Targets under-the-radar companies with over-the-top +50%, +100%, +200% potential. But it's watchful to prevent strike outs by cutting losers and providing diversity.
  • Income Investor Balances more aggressive moves with a steady flow of income through selected high-dividend stocks, plus other low-risk assets that offer higher potential than fixed income.
  • Insider Trader When significant insiders buy their own company's stock with their own money, it's an excellent signal - especially when combined with strong Zacks Rank timeliness and valuation factors.
  • Large-Cap Trader Selected large-cap stocks offer greater resistance to volatility than small caps, and yet can fly under-the-radar with strong growth potential.
  • Options Trader Blends the +24.2% yearly gain power of the Zacks Rank with professional options strategies to pursue substantial returns at a fraction of what would be risked on regular stock purchases.
  • Short List Non-biased, computer-driven list of stocks primed to fall much more than average, making them excellent candidates for shorting - especially in bear markets.
  • Stocks Under $10 Pinpoints low-priced stocks with improving fundamentals and earnings outlooks for exceptional growth potential.
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  • Technology Innovators Tracks emerging trends and breakthrough companies in fast-growing fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and more.
  • Value Investor Combining proven value criteria with Zacks Rank timing, it tracks undervalued companies until the market starts to see their real worth.
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