Why Motley Fool Stock Advisor Beats the Market

Journey in your mind back to March 2002. The stock market was still stumbling around in the aftermath of the dot-com crash, and retail investors were running scared. It was into that environment that Tom and David Gardner launched a monthly newsletter featuring one stock pick from each brother, with detailed explanations about why they'd been chosen -- a friendly fraternal competition that became the foundation of the Stock Advisor portfolio. The returns on those investments have well outpaced the broader market gains in the ensuing 16 years. Had you acted on all of their recommendations, you'd have reaped a market-mashing 1,955% return overall.

Profit, however, isn't the only thing the Gardners have accrued in the intervening years. They've also figured a few things out along the way. So, in this Rule Breaker Investing podcast, David Gardner shares, not stock picks, but interesting conclusions -- six of them -- from his 200 months selecting recommendations for Stock Advisor.

In this segment, the conclusion is absolutely fundamental. So much so, that if it weren’t true, the Gardners would probably have hung it up on this game ages ago: Self-directed investing though Stock Advisor should beat, maybe crush, the gains you’d make investing in mutual funds. But don’t just take his word for it. Let him walk you gently through the math.
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