The US stocks that clear our own bar to build a portfolio with today.

There is no single best stock for everyone, and this site doesn't name one. Each week it recomputes a sample portfolio of US large-cap stocks that clear a disclosed rule: at least 6 of 8 mechanical filters, at least one Buffett or Lynch checklist and, by default, a positive margin of safety, with one pick per sector. The list changes when the data does. It is educational, not personal advice.

Nobody does. A fixed, published rule runs against real data every week, and nothing is hand-picked or overridden. The Editorial Standards page explains the rule, the data sources and how corrections work.

The portfolio is recomputed automatically every week directly from the rule described in Methodology; no human curates or overrides it. A stock drops off the moment it no longer clears the bar, and a new one can qualify the same way.

About 500 large and mega-cap US-listed companies (the S&P 500, plus a few large caps kept on purpose) on a fixed tracked list; the exact count is on the screener. The site doesn't scan the whole market, funds, ETFs or non-US stocks, because no free data source supports that at scale.

No. No company can pay to appear on a list, rank higher or get a better verdict, and there are no affiliate links tied to any stock, broker or trading platform. The site sells clearly labeled display ad space and nothing else; ads never change which stocks pass.

Prices and fundamentals come from the free tiers of Finnhub and Twelve Data, annual-report figures and fund holdings from SEC filings, macro data from FRED and the Federal Reserve, and short interest from FINRA. It is refreshed weekly, so it can lag the live market: check real-time prices with your broker before any trade. Editorial Standards lists every source.

No. This page is educational and editorial content about publicly traded US companies. It does not account for your personal financial situation, goals, or risk tolerance. Please consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.

No. They're this site's own editorial approximations of each investor's publicly documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates. Buffett's approximation checks return on equity, low debt, steady margins, and fair valuation (needs 7 of 8 criteria); Lynch's checks his signature PEG-under-1 idea, growth in a healthy range, and low debt (needs all 5).

It shows how closely each held stock's daily price moves track each other. Lower correlation means more genuine diversification. We also compute an "effective independent bets" number (inspired by Ray Dalio's diversification framework), the count of truly separate risk sources this portfolio behaves like, which is usually far lower than the actual number of stocks held.

It's a homegrown 0-100 score, one-third each: how many tracked stocks are trading above their 200-day average, the average 14-day RSI across the portfolio, and the CBOE VIX (low volatility reads as "greed," high volatility as "fear"). It is not affiliated with or derived from CNN's Fear & Greed Index.