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The Real Secret To Long-Term Wealth
By putting all of our investment recommendations and strategies into a single product, with complete do-it-for-you portfolios like Porter’s Permanent Portfolio, and adding a lively Roundtable discussion each month, this single membership is truly everything you need to be a complete investor.
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The Secret To Investing In Distressed Debt
As the corporate debt bubble unwinds, we have partnered with legendary financial author and credit analyst Martin Fridson to take advantage of “the greatest legal transfer of wealth in history.” Martin releases monthly distressed debt and equity recommendations, for Partners only.
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A Once-In-A-Generation Moment For Tech Investors
We’re at a tipping point with emerging technology, witnessing changes that were unimaginable just years ago. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area — the tech capital of the world — Tech Frontiers senior analyst Erez Kalir has his finger on the pulse of advancements in artificial intelligence, blockchain, computing, and biosciences.
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Harnessing The Power of Non‑Correlated Return Streams
A trading service unlike anything we’ve ever done before. We funded a live account with $100,000 of our own money and execute behind our highest-conviction trading ideas. And you can follow along with every step of the way. Get access to trades built around the best independent research from our team.
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The New Porter & Co. Best Buys
Every month, we send you the three best investment ideas from across the Porter & Co. universe. and check in with all of our analysts to select three current recommendations that are at a very attractive buy price. These become our Best Buys.
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In this 5-minute video, Porter reveals his blueprint for permanent wealth: how to find the highest-quality businesses in the world, make 20 to 30% every year, and effectively manage risk. He's spent 30 years outperforming the market – and in Complete Investor, he opens his playbook up to you.
When Porter first launched Porter & Co. in summer 2022 – along with a handful of friends in the top floor of a renovated barn – he had only one goal: Recommend the best stocks in the world.
So he set to work choosing the ultimate “Who’s Who” lineup of energy stocks, insurance companies, capital-efficient “battleship stocks,” and more.
Over the next few years, Porter and his team gradually built out the Complete Investor list of recommendations to over 50 unbeatable businesses... businesses with high cash flow, low debt, and unstoppable growth ramps.
Today, Complete Investor’s track record speaks for itself. Because what we publish isn’t theory… it’s research that produces real-world results.
Porter recommends a new stock in Complete Investor every month – and sends readers detailed analysis and company updates every Saturday at 10am.
And here’s the best part... the Complete Investor recommendations are only the beginning.
When you subscribe to Complete Investor, you also get...
Full digital access to all the presentations at Porter’s sought-after fall investment conference...
Our proprietary Better Than Berkshire index... a hand-picked collection of high-return businesses that beat Warren Buffett’s fabled Berkshire portfolio by more than 2 to 1...
Behind-the-scenes access to Porter’s favorite analysts and recommendations... the guys he gets his advice from...
Porter’s personal stock allocation system, the Permanent Portfolio– which has almost doubled the performance of the S&P 500 since we launched it.
And much more... including Porter’s full investment library of dozens of past Complete Investor recommendations.
This is the in-depth research that Porter built his three-decade career on... research that has the potential to make you and your family extremely wealthy. We invite you to experience the results for yourself.
I love you! Humble, cautious and never ego. All what is essential in a good trader. I listen to you, and yet go by the axiom “Nobody Knows Anything”! But guess what? That includes me so I always keep an ear out to people I respect and that includes you!
Tremendous insight. Thank you for all your tremendous work over all these years. I became a Partner at Porter I believe the first day it was offered. Keep up the tremendous effort.
Thank you for your ongoing advice and knowledge! I truly appreciate your writing and have enjoyed watching my portfolio soar putting your recommendations into action.
One of his great recommendations was the albatross on Activision and Microsoft. I bought in the $70’s and sold at $94. A Great opportunity.
Reading Porter’s newsletters and listening to his advice over all these years has returned me millions… it’s that simple.
Porter’s writing is top notch. He’s the best there is when it comes to understanding business and finance that I’ve found.
Porter’s been delivering outsize gains for subscribers for almost three decades – going back to his early days as an analyst at Stansberry Research. That’s included thousands of percent gains on stocks like xx, xx, xx, and xx... and more recently, at Porter & Co., portfolio entries like NVR and xxx that are already up triple digits since he first recommended them.
Now, companies like HSY and NVR may not seem very similar, on the surface. One builds houses; one builds stacks of candy bars.
But the stocks that Porter hand-picks for the Complete Investor portfolio tend to have one important, hidden thing in common: They’re highly capital efficient.
You can think about capital efficiency as the ability of a company to convert profits into shareholder returns, instead of being consumed by the capital needs of the business.
For virtually all businesses, some portion of profits must be diverted back into the capital spending, as part of the inevitable replacement or upgrading of plant and equipment, among other requirements.
The most attractive companies have minimal capital requirements, which maximizes the free cash flowing into your pocket as the business owner (a.k.a., investor). These companies also have strong competitive positions, which means they can avoid allocating excess capital towards warding off competitors.
Only businesses with high capital efficiency and strong competitive positions can enjoy a robust and growing earnings stream, while also having enough profit left over to support high shareholder payouts. Those are the businesses Porter focuses on in Complete Investor.
Capital efficient stocks feed off five critical characteristics:
Few companies in the world meet these criteria. But when you find one that does – and one that checks off these five green flags – it’s like stumbling across an untapped gold mine.
In these rare situations, you can simply buy, hold and forget. The economy could be on the cusp of the biggest financial dislocation in 100 years, and you’ll still do just fine. That’s our goal at Complete Investor.
Our capital efficient recommendations – along with our proprietary tools like the “Better than Berkshire” Index, the Permanent Portfolio, and our monthly Best Buys -- are designed to put you on the road to sustainable, generational wealth.
To help subscribers better manage their overall portfolios, every recommendation in Complete Investor is scored with our proprietary Risk Rating, based on business execution risk, not share-price volatility.
Every recommendation we make is scored on a simple 5-point scale where a 1 means the business has a top investment-grade credit rating and decades of near-perfect business execution and a 5 represents an extremely speculative business that has a substantial risk of going to zero.
We called it Complete Investor because unlike many other investment advisories, Complete Investorisn't limited to a specific sector or category of stock. Instead, our recommendations fall into one of 6 different categories:
Perhaps the most valuable benefit of Complete Investoris complimentary access to Porter's Permanent Portfolio, a fully allocated and balanced model portfolio designed with the lofty expectations of beating the market with lower overall risk.
Since launching the portfolios on September 25, 2024, the performance of the portfolio has dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 with less than half the volatility (0.45 beta) of the market and a Sharpe ratio over 1 (1.07).
Here's how things would have looked if you had invested $100,000 into Porter's Permanent Portfoliocompared to the S&P 500.
I was a producer at Merrill for 50 years and one month; as such, I take several investment newsletters now that I'm retired. Your screens are among the best stuff I receive. I do save all of them and have often referred back to previous issues.
I invested most of my savings into GLD back when you did some math regarding Gold and the Dollar. My retirement savings grew almost 200% before this correction. Your advice stood the test of time. Your clarity and explanations are very important to me.
Love your stuff! Oh, and my wife really thanks you for the TPL recommendation; she's up 80% in about 2 months!
Porter you have my utmost respect in how let us know the truth. Thank God I have discovered you and can’t wait to hear what you have to say every day!!!!
Any time Porter talks about the big picture… how to invest smartly for the mid and long term, I listen. I have benefited enormously from his insights and instinct in the past. I'm not going to miss the opportunity now!
Just wanted to say thank you and give you an atta boy for the great call on Mitsui. I was compelled by your endorsement and purchased 10 shares now up better than 38%! Sensational diversified international holding. So glad I listen to you.
Mr. Stansberry, How grateful I am to find you. The quality of integrity, character, intelligence and investment savvy of your offering rings true beyond all others. And your sense of partnering with your members is missing elsewhere. I have to earn enough to invest, even at the level of a mere member, but my focus and purpose have a new momentum since listening to you, today. I need this, the country needs this, and thank goodness you came back to start this service with Porter & Co. I just had to say something.
Thank you. I subscribed to Porter & Co to learn and grow as an investor and it’s been terrific. I have never written in, but I really wanted you to know that your commitment to giving your subscribers the honest truth and clearest information possible is why I am a paid up Partner and will remain so as long as you care to publish.
Member Benefit #1
Each Complete Investor recommendation is tracked and monitored in one of our model portfolios – along with a clear risk-rating and a buy, sell, or hold marker – so you can easily follow our research.
And while other investment research firms would likely charge you hundreds or thousands of dollars for access to each of these model portfolios, inside Complete Investor you get them all in one membership.
Giving you a complete range of wealth-building opportunities across the entire market, each with different risk and reward profiles so that you can select the best approach for your financial goals.
Member Benefit #2
A complete portfolio solution that’s designed to achieve the two things that most investors think is impossible: generate massive outperformance while protecting your account from significant drawdowns.
Inspired by the work of the legendary Harry Browne – Porter’s mentor and friend – who pioneered the original Permanent Portfolio with a simple concept: split your wealth equally between stocks, bonds, cash, and gold.
Since 1987, that model has captured the stock market’s upside with only half the volatility. But Porter knew he could do better. He knew he could achieve double the returns without increasing the risk.
And that’s exactly what we’ve done.
We could easily sell this portfolio for thousands of dollars, but as part of Porter’s mission to make Complete Investor the last advisory you ever need… you’re getting it for free.
Member Benefit #3
Once a month, we pull back the curtain and invite you to sit in with the Porter & Co. analysts for a private, "fly-on-the-wall" experience where you’ll hear the team analyze the portfolio, debate ideas, and stress-test our positions.
Member Benefit #4
In addition to everything above, we’ve also built a number of incredible indexes that turn some of our strongest ideas into easy-to-use portfolios/products that you can mimic, including:
The Better Than Berkshire Index: Strives to outperform Warren Buffett by allocating not to Berkshire’s wholly owned “value” businesses (many of which have underperformed) but to the elite operators from each sector.
A strategy that our backtesting shows can deliver significant outperformance as Berkshire continues to deliver lackluster results.
The Lindy Index:The longer something has been around, the longer it’s likely to stick around. This index applies the so-called "Lindy Effect” to companies… with an index of some of the world’s oldest (and best) compounders of wealth.
The P&C Insurance Index: A modern bond alternative that invests in world-class insurers that earn a negative cost of capital through float, offering investors bond-like stability with equity-like returns.
And more.
Member Benefit #5
Typically reserved for Partner Pass members who paid $2,500 for in-person tickets to my annual conference, these recordings will be available to you.
I host a small, private conference at my farm every year.
I invite the best investment analysts in my Rolodex, and together we present our very best ideas to a close-knit circle of Partners.
At last year’s conference, we named 15 stocks that would have returned an average of 60% – while not an apples-to-apples comparison, that’s nearly four times the S&P 500’s performance over the same period.
Which is one of the reasons why in-person tickets cost $2,500. But as a member of Complete Investor, you’ll get the recordings of every past presentation for free.
Member Benefit #6
As a member, you’ll also get our complete archive of research reports, briefings, and special guides. Each briefing explores a new wealth-building idea you likely won’t find anywhere else, including:
Or any of the others waiting for you in our library.