Test of Some Motley Fool Public Stock Picks

A reader asked: “I am wondering how come you have not rated Motley Fool guys. Any insight?” To augment the test of Motley Fool public stock picks in “‘Buy These Stocks for 2019’ Forward Test”, we evaluate stock picks for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 via “10 Top Stocks That Will Make You Richer in 2021”, “7 Stocks That Could Make You Richer in 2022”, “Got $1,000? 5 Sensational Stocks to Buy to Start 2023 With a Bang” and “10 Top Stocks to Buy in 2024”. For each year and each stock, we compute total (dividend-adjusted) return. For each year, we then compare the average (equal-weighted) total return for a Motley Fools picks portfolio to that of  SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY). Using end-of-year dividend-adjusted closing prices for SPY and each of the specified years/stocks from Yahoo!Finance (except for Kirkland Lake Gold, for which prices are from Barchart.com), we find that:

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