Our Portfolio Performance Update

Every June, The Applied Finance Group (AFG) hosts its annual conference in Las Vegas to help its clients improve their understanding of AFG’s methodology and valuation framework. Putting these concepts into practice, AFG also provides several actionable Buy ideas that clients can add to their portfolio, upon returning to their office. One of the most popular sessions during the conference is called “Hot Stocks”- a time when AFG analysts give detailed analysis of several stocks that are currently of great interest to the investment community.

Since its release on June 12, 2009, the “Hot Stocks” portfolio has outperformed the Russell 1000 by 5.85%. Below is a look at the four Buy recommendations within the “Hot Stocks” portfolio, and their performances as of August 13th 2009. Also provided below is the performance of the Russell 1000 index during the same time period.